When everything goes wrong, sock wool helps

As you may know, We would really do everything for our customers. So at least everything that is in our power. We search for yarn alternatives, compare colors, calculate quantities and, in case of an emergency, drive extra to the warehouse on a day off.

The latter was necessary this time. But from the beginning.

We have been waiting for a delivery from our supplier so that we can send the ordered wool to our customer as soon as possible. She needed the yarn for a knitting weekend with her girlfriends and, of course, did not want to show up with any old project, but with her new wool. Completely understandable.

If you have already spent a whole weekend with other knitters, you finally want to have wool with you, which you can pull out of the bag as casually as possible and show off a little bit with it. Unfortunately, our delivery apparently had other plans.

According to tracking, she was on the road, but drove somewhere in circles for about three days. At the same time, we had a new parcel driver who either drove past our warehouse or did not come at all. Unfortunately, we still do not know that very well.

Full of desperation Sabine drove on her holiday day, in any case, to the camp and waited until office closing for the delivery. Caroline the boss of the shipment also went there again the next day. We have checked, inquired, waited and probably lost one or the other less friendly word about this delivery.

None of this has worked. The shit delivery just didn’t come – excuse our language.

And because we could not send anything to the customer without the delivery, she finally had to go to the knitting weekend without her new wool and instead packed sock wool.

And this is already a small supergau for every knitterd. You have prepared for a new, exciting project and then sit there again with a sock bunch. Two on the right, two on the left. Langweilig.

Don’t get us wrong, we have nothing against socks at all. Socks are practical, socks are always needed and sock wool is usually lying around somewhere. But honestly: Nobody plans the big appearance at the knitting weekend for weeks and thinks: Hopefully everyone is impressed by my new heel.

Nevertheless, this story has shown us once again: you should always have sock wool at home!

It may not always be the project you look forward to the most. But it's there. It does not need much space, no long preparation and usually no complicated decisions. A ball, the matching needles and let’s go.

Sock wool is kind of a bit like the girlfriend you can call late in the evening when everything has gone wrong. Maybe it wasn’t the original plan, but it’s reliable when you need it.

In this sense, instead of the desired wool, we send at least very much greetings to Salzburg for the knitting weekend and of course hope very much that the next delivery simply arrives normal with us. Without a three-day round trip, without package driver puzzles and without additional excursions to the camp on the day off.

Until then, however, a very important insight remains: socks always go. Or sometimes they just have to leave.

And that's why we start today, how could it be otherwise, with really nice sock wool in our knitting inspirations.

Appropriately, we have new colors of Vintage Socks from Lana Grossa bekommen. A high-quality sock yarn with merino wool and a nice tone-in-tone effect, which the good old sock wool can then quickly turn from an emergency project to a new favorite project.

If you like it a bit more summery when it comes to socks, you could go to Landlust from Lana Grossa greifen. And quite honestly: If you arrive at the knitting weekend with a sock wool with silk content, you can then already show off a little bit.

Of course, the polyamide content of sock yarns is always such a small pain point. You understand why he is in it, but still it would be quite nice to be able to knit socks completely without artificial fiber, right?

That's what they're for. Woolycell from Lana Grossa. A high-quality sock yarn made of merino wool and lyocell, without any polyamide. Lyocell, also known as Tencel, is an industrially produced wood cellulose fibre. It is breathable and biodegradable. For all those who did not know this yet and now want to show off with new knowledge at the next knitting weekend.

So, dear people, we think we have now really made a detailed statement per socks. That is enough, however, once again.

Of course, in the last two weeks we have not been exclusively engaged in detective work in matters of wool delivery. Of course, we have also created one or the other new knitting kit for you.

My Dotline Top I Norgardknitters

The My Dotline Top is a feminine summer top with submarine neckline and small nubs that look like pearls on a string. Hence, unsurprisingly, the name also comes “Dotline”. The top is figure-oriented and sits particularly nicely on the arm cutouts, which is not entirely unimportant with sleeveless tops.

Tuen Sweater I Marianne Isager

Not summery at all, but as we know Sabine, she prefers to save herself on hot days with the sight and processing of winter sweaters. The Doing sweaters from Marianne Isager Of course, this is just right.

And honestly: You can never start early enough to prepare for the colder days. Especially not if one considers the summer anyway only a little too long transition from spring to autumn.

Lumi Sweater I Marianne Isager

If a winter sweater in the middle of summer is not enough, we put with the Lumi Sweater from Marianne Isager I'll go straight to another one. Due to the wide stripes and the combination of Mulberry Silk and Silk Mohair, it looks amazingly light despite a neat fluff. It is knitted from top to bottom, which makes it easy to adjust both the length and the sleeves.

So actually just the right project to save yourself at 30 degrees at least mentally in cooler times. Sabine would probably say: pure preparation. We would say: very consistent summer refusal.

Finally, we have a real highlight for you. We know, we say this not very rarely, but this time it is really one without exaggeration.

In our treasury, also called quite unspectacular archive, we have a very last copy of A Knitting Life from Isager gefunden. Why is this so special? Quite simply: The book is completely sold out and is no longer reprinted.

So we are honestly quite curious to see which of you is fast enough to get this last copy and hold the little treasure in your hands.

That's it again from us. We hope we were able to convince you with this article that socks may sometimes seem a little bit boring, but are really loyal and reliable knitting projects.

And that winter sweaters are very well justified in the summer. Especially when they are as great as those by Marianne Isager.

As always, we wish you success in all your small and large knitting projects and read us again in 14 days with new woolly news.