I’m going to just start the week off with an apology. I know I’m going to put you over the edge this week with the Sneak Up and …. well, I’m sorry. There are way too many beautiful colors and yarns and choices and I have no idea how you’re going to decide which ones need to come home to live with you. How do I know this? Because I took too many of them out this week to put in my own stash. That’s how I know. I didn’t plan it this way. We always have so many things on order that I am never sure exactly what will show up week to week. This week – too many good choices. (What’s going up? Well, Yarn Pirate, Perchance to Knit, Seacoast Panda, and all of the lace yarns. Overload.) So I hope you enjoy browsing and shopping and know that I feel your pain. (Zoe advises everyone to just take a nap, while awaiting this week’s Sneak Up. Honest – you can see her mid-sentence in the photo.)
I wanted to answer a couple of blog questions – one was, “What is a Sneak Up?” That simply refers to us putting new yarns and products on the website each week. Once in awhile I will re-stock yarns and coloways as the UPS gal brings them, but most of the time I do all of the updating at once, each week. The time and day change from week to week, just because I have learned that it helps make for a more pleasurable shopping experience if not everyone has planned to be on here shopping at the same exact time. 🙂 Although it’s kind of funny to watch how quickly the word gets out when the Sneak Up has taken place. I think some of you take turns monitoring the site for your whole knitting group, based on what I have heard and seen! (Personally? I’d place my own order and then go spread the word!) Another question is about The Loopy Ewe Seasonal Sock Club and whether or not we still have spots available. The answer is unfortunately, no. Our sock club sold out overnight and ended up being 3 times bigger than I expected, so we’re definitely full this year! However, we would sure love to have you sign up next year and I will give plenty of notice for that. I already have some fun things in mind for the next one. The last question: Why did the numbers go away under your different website categories? Well, because that is one of the things that slows the website down when so many of you are shopping at once. However, with our move to a bigger server and a little re-vamping by Web Guy, we were able to put them back up and we don’t think they will affect the speed to much from now on.
Speaking of fun things – let’s do the April Blog Contest. Tell me your favorite color combination for socks. Not the brand, not the weight, not the price – just tell me what 2-5 colors would make up your very favorite colorway. (And if you want to add “best name for a sock colorway ever”, I think that would be fun, too.) My favorite sock color combination would be hunter, cranberry and mocha. Although I’m fairly certain that after I read your entries, I will have changed my mind a few times. Best sock name ever? The one that is on the Loopy Ewe Summer Sock Club yarn – it’s too fun! Leave your answers in the comments and I’ll use the random number generator to pick a winner next Monday, the 30th for the winner of a fun Loopy Loot package. (And maybe we’ll turn some of your favorite color combinations into new colorways here!) I think maybe I ought to go through more of WH’s flower photos for some good color combo ideas.
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Bright pink, bright blue-red, and deep violet. Not very inventive, maybe, but I’d name it “Passionate”.
I would say variegated blue, purple, and teal would be my ideal colorway (just like Fleece Artist’s “Midnight” but with some teal thrown in). Hmm… I’m not good with names either. Nothing comes to mind.
Colors of a gorgeous sunset, oranges, yellows, pinks, purples and blues and of course it woudl be called sunset.
Well, there just has to be some purple, a deep violet in there. For fun let’s also throw in some black, gold, crimson and just a touch of a peachy-orange. Let us call this colorway “Nocturnal”. Nope, don’t ask, I don’t know.
Mmm, there are a lot of color combinations already mentioned that I like (pinks and greens, pinks with creams and tans) but the one I’m looking for would have the colors of the tree that’s blooming right now in my garden: deep bark brown, bronze, pale leaf green, and blossom pink. I’d call it April 25 because that’s also a holiday here.
‘Twould have to be the one I have waaay too much of to get through before Christmas! Coral, magenta, red, canary and violet….sort of a Fruit Salad at Sunset kind of a thing….
Fave sock colors: Blue, pink, purple and green. Lately I’m all about pale spring greens.
Best colorway name: Blodeuwedd, Welsh goddess of Spring made from flowers
There are so many great names and color mixes listed here! 🙂 I love chocolate brown/tan, and turquoise (Sand and Sea), and although I like some red/black/ and gray colors together (Beetle Bug), I don’t often knit those colors, and last but not least – Light(but not lime) green/pink/brown/tan – Spring Cricket!
Oh, and I LOVE Blues – I think I would call this color, Faded Jeans (one size fits all), because wouldn’t you just love to find a pair of jeans that fits everyone, looks great, but feels even better, AND not have to shop forever to find them????
Medium rose and light rose with a hefty dose of deep spring green. Not quite apple green, but the color of new maple leaves. I always gravitate towards the green and pink combo like that. I think there’s a Colinette afghan set in those colors that acts like a magnet for me…I find it no matter how hidden it may be.
I love sunshine yellow with a medium blue (Sunshine and Blue Skies).
I like spring/yellowy greens with lavender and purple. I’d call it Teasel, inspired by a photo in a recent issue of Birds and Blooms.
Stick with the lace, and keep those life lines in use! I use dental tape for mine, and I have also found that needles like the newer Denise sets have a hole in them – you thread the life line through the hole, knit your row, and viola! life line installed.
My favorite combinations depend upon the season (so fickle, I know) and as the warm weather is here I’m drawn to sea colors, beach and sea glass colors. I would pick pale sky blue, deep sea green, and speckles of sea glass colors in white, aquamarine and rootbeer bottle brown. The colorway would be called “Discovery”, as the best place I’ve been for combing for sea glass is the beach on Puget Sound at Discovery Park in Seattle.
Right now I like pink, cranberry and shades of brown … there is a Claudia Handpainted colorway in those colors called “Chocolate Cherry” that I am coveting!
my Favorite colorways would be creams with different shades of teal from light to
dark. (not too dark). I would call it Ocean Sand.
My favorite colorway would include various shades of blue and maybe some white thrown in. I’d call it summer sky. Actually, when it comes to sock yarn, I don’t think there’s any color I don’t like.
I think my favorite colorway would be lots of different blues and maybe a bit of purple. 🙂 I don’t know what I would call it, though.
I would pick all the shades of blue with a bit of cream thrown in. I would call it “Landing in Paradise” which is what I said when the hubby and I took a trip to Hawaii about 20 years ago. I still remember the view out of the plane window.
Still hoping to go back someday…..
I’d like Dudley, which would be cream, salmon pink, and the strange creamy yellow color of my yellow lab. I’d also like the Beast, which would be chocolate brown with some salmon pink in it. Finally, I’d love a hot, hot pink with a little bit of deep purple and orange in it, just to go out on a limb and do something Totally Wild.
Pink, purple and black (and/or greys).
Oh, I’m sooo looking forward to those laceweights!
yellow, orange, and lime green……..as far as names go….how about sherbert or koolaid or crayons, or how about grandkids found the can opener and the veg-all…..oy!
My favorite colorway would different shades of teal and brown. I just love those two colors together!
Oh, and another one–I love Halloween, so–black, bright orange, gold and bright ilme green. The name I’d choose is “Monster Mash”.
Deep blue, purple, magenta, pink, rich orange. I’d call it “Early Sunrise”
I always miss your sneak ups! Is there a way to leave the pics of the yarn up even though it is sold out? I would love to see them.
I think that some pretty colors are pink, cream and sage. My mom made a afgan out of that and it was beautiful. “Rose Bud”
Or Lavender, cream and sage. “Lavander fields”
Thanks Sheri, you always take care of us!!!
-Michele
Zoe is such a cutie! My favorite color combo for a sock yarn would be called “jamberry” — plum, dark blue, and rhubarb.
Can’t wait to see how the Sea Silk knits up!
My favorite color combos for socks tend to be dark purple (eggplant), navy, and various greens, maybe a teal. I guess I’d call it “jeans in the garden” or some such thing.
do i have to pick only one color combo? i love Neapolitan–pink, cream, brown
or green and pink
or blue and brown
i dunno. i can’t choose just one.
color names? hmm, how bout “Toadstool”? shades of earthy browns.
Hi Sheri, my favorite colour combination would be lavender, white and periwinkle – I would call it Bloom. Love reading the blog, as a new sock knitter, love to see what “sneaks up”!!
Like Stacey, I think I would have to say black red and white. I would call that color combo just what it is, “Striking”.
Grey, violet, and white come up as a good runner up.
I am a total pink and brown girl….although technically my favorite color is still blue, but I think I’m a bit of a hussy where “favorite colors” are concerned. There are just so many pretty colors.
Katie’s All Time, Best Ever, Most Favorite Colorway This Week:
Colors: natural cream, light pink, medium pink, espresso-with-milk brown, chocolate brown.
I want the natural in the middle, with the brown and pink radiating out from the center, lighter colors to darker. That way the entire colorway will knit up light to dark with my favorite colors in there.
This colorway will also match my beautiful, brand new knitting bag that was custom made for me. Told you I like pink and brown 😉
The colors of a thistle. dk to med greens with dk purple to lavender.
It’s tough to choose, but I think my favourite today is fairly boring: denim blue, navy blue, and black.
Secondary colors for me — for socks, purples and oranges with a touch of a green. Although I love the browns too …
I absolutely love shades of pink from light to fushcia along with shades of brown from latte to hot chocolate.
Hmmm favorite colorway name…little bunny foo foo just for my niece as she loves the story but we use little rabbit foo foo.
I think my current favorite is shades of teal with yellow and purple.
My favorite would be purple and gold (maybe because they are my school colors) 🙂
I’d really like to see more ’70s themed colorways. Perhaps one could be ’70s greens and oranges, browns, and off-whites. I’d call it something like “The Kitchen of My Dreams” or “Time to Re-Do the Laundry Room” or “That’s ’70s Sock”.
Something like that. 😉
I have to say that lately I’ve been drawn to all shades of green. I’m looking out my window at all the variations coming out in the garden; the always-dark green background of the evergreens, the soft spring greens of the apple tree (with pink blossoms), the grey-green of the butterfly bush, the bright, slightly lime green of the new hawthorne leaves. The rosemary bush with it’s sprinkling of lavender flowers looks pretty good, too.
I’m currently in love with shades of baby blue, white and speckles of dark brown. I would call it Nest of Robin Eggs.
Hmmm. Normally I go for a blue-green combo, but lately I’ve been into orange and pink. How about spring green, tangerine orange, carnation pink, with some darker green and medium brown flecks thrown in to offset the brightness of the others? Call it Hothouse Bouquet.
Just one favourite combo? ivory, lilac, violet, grass, sage (maybe a pinch of brown). Or the darker version amythest, deep rose, emerald and lapis with black. So hard to choose… :).
amethyst, deep purple and shocking pink. And would have to be called WOW or Vibrant Goth
Lately I’ve really been gravitating towards chocolate brown and a light teal. I love the whole brown/blue thing.
My favorite sock color combination this spring seems to be pinks – and lots of it. Dark pinks, medium pinks and light pinks. I can’t explain why I am gravitating toward all the pink shades, but there you have it. My name for it would be Pink Magnolia or Pink Carolina; no clue as to why I would pick those names. Enjoy your week!
I would love a Strawberries and cream sock yarn : Cream, red and deep pink and pale pink. Yum!
Danielle
Mmmm…. peacock feathers colors! Anything with a lot of depth and saturation. My 9-year-old son and I were dyeing some yarn Saturday (his first handspun… I’m verklempt!) and he did the most incredibly beautiful color combination in blues/greens/golds. Now I’m trying to recreate it!
Hi Sheri,
I don’t know if you can have two opinions, but I thought of something else that
might be pretty. A very pale yellow with shades of blueberries, and raspberries,
and it could be called Banana Split. I hope I can get in on the yarn when it comes
up.
You can’t tell from what I’m knitting, but right now my eyes are drawn to the bright oranges. So I guess I’d love a colorway that looked like a Blood Orange. Preferably in the Fleece Artist.
New grass green, yellow, pink, lilac, and sky blue. I would call it Spring Horizon.
Medium purple (Apple Laine’s Purple Rain comes to mind), Turquoise, medium Forest Green, Burnt Sienna (reddish brown), and a touch of hot pink and lavender: Hidden Grove.