Shetland Wool Socks

Greetings all!  Hope you are getting through this rather mild January and all your knitting projects!  It seems this month that our sock blogs are very popular.  Search back in our archives for blogs about socks.  Shetland sheep produce wonderful wool for socks!  If you haven't made any socks out of Shetland wool, try it!  The wool off our sheep has been a real pleasure to spin, knit, and wear.

One blog you can quickly find is from August 2012.  In it, I blogged about our ewe Lacey and her wool.  I still have those socks!  They went on to win us blue ribbons as somehow, I knit that one pair without one mistake, which is definitely not typical for me.  Socks are wonderful things in that you can make mistakes because they rarely interfere with the integrity of the socks, and if they are for yourself, you can decide if it's worth the time to rip them back...or not! lol

Anyhoo, when knitting for judging, perfect is best.  I had no idea if the judges would like my socks or not, but that's why you enter in the first place!  It's a great way to see how you are doing and get some feedback.

We hope you will take some time to either knit some socks for yourself and those you know, or learn how!  It is a great and handy skill, but I must warn you....that is if you have yet to learn how....that once you can do it, people will be pestering you for socks forever on!

Happy sock knitting everyone!

P.S.  Our other sheep also produce wool that is wonderful in socks.  We seek a certain quality of wool and if a sheep doesn't have that, we wouldn't own it!  It's hard to find good sock wool, but you can find it here on Wheely Wooly Farm.  You can either email us, or seek us out at the farm market come summer.