Update:  All the remaining unclaimed Blog Reader Specials have now been posted to the Blog Reader Specials page; go there to see which ones you want. 

I mentioned the other day that i was playing with a new (to me) pattern, following the machine knitting tutorial from Diana Sullivan on YouTube.  After playing with it, and coming up with this short scarf …

I converted the machine knitting instructions to hand-knitting.  It is all just knitting and purling, with simple short-rows (no wrapping at the turns).   As you can see from my sample (even with the obvious errors where the machine and I worked together to make mistakes!), that the pattern works very well with a simple gradient fade yarn.  Other examples I’ve seen take advantage of leftover sock yarns, with a different yarn used for each row of shells.  It is a very versatile stitch pattern.  And, you can have it free with your purchase of any of these yarns from today’s collection, OR any yarn from the Blog Reader Specials page!  (It is ‘free’ for yarn purchasers this weekend, but it still copyrighted and should not be distributed elsewhere.)

All of today’s collection are Phydlbitz Sock – 75/25 Superwash Corriedale/Nylon, 430 yards apiece (except #200-201, explained below).

To claim any of these shown below, just send me an email with the item number you’d like, and be sure I know your location so I can calculate the correct shipping costs.

The first 3 were knitted up and dyed as blank sheets, to create self-striping yarns.  These are $42.00 apiece and will be put up as double-stranded center-pull balls, to allow for knitting two-at-a-time socks, taking both strands from the center, or both from the outside edge.

And here’s the rest of them.  They been arranged on the rack so that you can see the full range of colors in each skein.  Because of how they are dyed, what you see on the front is the same as what’s on the back.

A special word about #200 & 201 — while I was pulling hanks from the cone, I was distracted and failed to stop at 430 yards as I should have.  In fact, I’d gone so far over it was easier to just keep going and make a double hank.  But then the cone ran out and I had to join a new cone.  It is just over 860 yards for the double cone.  I can split it into two separate hanks, OR if you want to take the double hank, you can have it for $46.00 (instead of $52.00 for two hanks).  All the other hanks are $26.00 apiece.

Update:  All the remaining unclaimed Blog Reader Specials have now been posted to the Blog Reader Specials page; go there to see which ones you want. 

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