Dyed superwash merino. I got the white roving on sale ages ago and just found the partial packet hidden behind something. I did a quick dye pot earlier this summer and just started spinning it a couple of weeks ago. This was the prettiest part. The rest of the roving is spinning up green. It makes sense since it is mainly yellow and blue. I sort of missed that one.
I had one 50 g skein of the self striping sock yarn and one 50 g skein of the grey. I didn't have quite enough to match the toes. I thought I had some scraps left from another pair of socks, but they weren't in the sock yarn bin. I knit to the very end of the grey and had to make the one sock toe a few rows bigger than the first one.I bought a bulk package of this sock yarn ages ago at an outlet tent sale. It is pretty when worked up. Our water though, is iron heavy, so they tend to dull quickly, with an orange cast to them. I had to re-knit the toe on the first sock, not one, but three times because I kept making it just a bit too big. I chalk it up to a learning experience as it's been a while since I've knit socks for myself.
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