sock yarn – Ruth E. Hendricks Photography

It’s Pi Day

What is pi? “pi—which is written as the Greek letter for p, or π—is the ratio of the circumference of any circle to the diameter of that circle”

If you want to know how pi originated click this Scientific American article

Rob this post is for you. Rob is a certified Pie Judge. Here’s a post of National Pie day in January 2012. Sorry I missed National Day Pie Day this year but now it’s Pi Day 3.14.

Did you know you can order Pi Day sock yarn? maybe for next year Fibernymph Dyeworks says “ all of our Pi Day colorways, the striping pattern is based on the numeric sequence of pi – 3.141592…, which is a non-repeating number. Thus, the stripe sequence does not repeat within the skein, and you will not be able to get a matching pair of socks (or anything) from a single skein. But if you’re a math geek, that’s part of the fun! We include a stitch marker affixed to the beginning of the sequence”

Pi Day at high school was celebrated in 2015

March 13, 2023 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: apple pie, circle, fern, Fibernymph Dyeworks, knitting, math, mathematics, photography, pi, pie, pie judge, postaday, radius, sequence, sock yarn 17 Comments

Unraveling

A piece of knitting that’s taken hours to achieve a length, can be returned to a ball of yarn in no time at all.

Ten hours of knitting? Can be undone in less than two minutes! But if it’s necessary? Wrong size, a mistake, wrong gauge, disappointing fabric, the wrong needle and/ or wrong stitch count.

My problem was I cast on 72 stitches for one sock then promptly forgot that I did so on the second. I cast on 64 stitches, my usual number. Rip, rip, rip! 8 stitches make a difference, in this case an inch in the circumference. You want matching socks. You NEED them to match as best you can . To fit! One thing I’ve learned is it will not remedy itself if you keep going. Face it! And rip. Carefully.

You just grit your teeth and do it. don’t think too much. No groaning.

There. It’s back to a ball of yarn. Now go cast on the correct number snd reknit. About ten hours worth of knitting. Love this handdyed yarn from **Knittinbro** Yarns of Pennsylvania.

November 6, 2021November 6, 2021 by Ruth Categories: knitting, PhotographyTags: frogging, handdyed yarn, handknit socks, Knittinbro Yarns, knitting, photography, Pittsburgh PA, postaday, sock yarn, unraveling 22 Comments

Knitting in Nebraska

Thursday I arrived in Omaha. After lunch my friend Joanne took me to a couple of local yarn shops. I like to buy souvenir yarn from places I visit, usually a single skein of local sock yarn.

I got in the peacock pen to photograph the skein of Acid Peacock yarn by One Twisted Tree at ImagiKnit.

Today at her friend’s farm and I tried to take a photo of the yarn AND the peacock. You can see the focusing issues I experienced.

Joanne took the next four photos. A trunkful of yarn. Hotel morning selfie she took with her timer on. Me coming out of the peacock pen.

Photo by Joanne

August 25, 2018 by Ruth Categories: knitting, PhotographyTags: acid peacock, farm, friendship, ImagiKnit, knitting, Omaha Nebraska, One Twisted Tree, peacock, photography, postaday, sock yarn, travel, yarn 14 Comments

Did you ever do something really stupid?

Did you ever do something really stupid? Like so stupid you can’t even believe it?

Dumb dumb dumb!

This afternoon I took my warm flannel sheets out of the dryer to change my bed. Stuck with static to the fabric was one of my brand new hand knit socks. Yikes! My eyes hit wide and I couldn’t believe it. I found the mate.

The socks knit from special locally dyed yarn from the Sonoran Desert in Arizona.

They’d been hanging on a towel rack to dry after being lovingly hand washed with a mild soap, carefully rinsed and rolled in a towel to get rid of excess water.

I’d just completed the pair before midnight on Wednesday, wanting to finish in the month of February.

I’d knit them over the course of two months time. Yikes. And I’d bought the yarn two years ago when visiting a friend in Arizona.

Another friend in Pittsburgh was knitting the same pattern with almost the same yarn I’d gotten her. We cast on at the beginning of January. Our own little KAL.(knit along) The four row pattern repeat took me longer than usual to finish the pair. Not my usual mindless knitting. I was so happy they were finished.

How stupid I’d washed and dried these handmade socks in the washing machine and even worse, the DRYER!

I looked at them on top of the dryer and they weren’t exactly toddler sized. Phew!

How did I get so lucky?

and believe it or not, they fit perfectly

Cheryl Griset is the artist who dyed the yarn with plants from the Sonoran Desert. If you’ve followed previous knitting posts, you know I like to buy a skein of souvenir sock yarn when traveling. (Sometimes more than one skein!)

Where I bought the yarn-

https://www.tempeyarn.com/tempeyarn_local.htm

March 3, 2018 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: Arizona, Cheryl Griset, hand knit, KAL, knit along, knitting, mistake, photography, postaday, sock knitting, sock yarn, Sonora Desert, Tempe Yarns, travel 18 Comments

Easy Peasy Newborn Sock Hat

If you have the urge to knit one, you’ll have to google search as WP not letting me add a link tonight. I knit it on two circulars-size ones/2.25mm

Ravelry: Easy Peasy Newborn Sock Hat pattern by Keri McKiernan

Regia sock yarn from a few years ago.

P.S. I left the white speck on the table in the foreground For my fellow blogger , Yvette from Priorhouse blog Xxoo

January 24, 2018 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: baby, Easy Peasy Sock Hat, knitting, newborn hat, photography, postaday, Ravelry, sock yarn 13 Comments

Wordless Wednesday

January 16, 2018 by Ruth Categories: Wordless WednesdayTags: #wordlesswednesday, darn, darning, darning egg, home, knitting, needle, photography, postaday, repair, sewing, sock yarn, socks, wordless wednesday 12 Comments

HANDYED Yarn in BERLIN at Die Wollnerin

Meet Sabine Bornemann.

Hand Dyer of gorgeous yarn and yarn shop owner in the Schoenberg Neighborhood –Die Wollnerin .Very close to Winterfeld Platz.

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Handcrafted little zipper bags for notions, stitched by another woman (whose name I will add when I get it)

42608A5F-9241-40DE-B9A0-B509734CD410 AB43D938-8889-4D52-8CA1-64969D125B6B My first trip I bought a single skein of this lucious Alpaca Silk Cashmere and then made a second trip to buy another skein. My last day in Berlin I bought the hand dyed sock yarn of the loveliest merino and a bit of nylon for endurance. On my final day, I took Sabine’s photo as I said I would for the People at Work Series. Thank you Sabine. Your shop is wonderfully inspiring to me.

Looking forward to my return visit in the Spring.

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November 18, 2017November 18, 2017 by Ruth Categories: knitting, PhotographyTags: Berlin, digital photography, hand dyed yarn, handcraft, knitting, photo, postaday, Schoenberg, sock yarn, yarn, yarn store 9 Comments

Yarnbyrds: A Gourmet Yarn Truck

My son-in-law James saw a story about a yarn store on wheels. Here’s the clip on Columbus television. YARNBYRDS,LLC THE YARN TRUCK

James knows I like to knit and enjoy good yarn so this morning he sent me a link from the local paper aticle about Yarnbyrds Columbus Dispatch.

A converted RV is a yarn store? I’m in!

The ~~Food Truck~~ craze has inspired a gourmet Yarn Truck. What a wonderful idea.

Found the phone number and called Robin and this evening I was able to go and visit “Birdie” ( the mobile yarn store’s nickname) and make some wonderful gourmet yarn purchases, too.

Here’s Yarnbirds website for details on the delicious yarn and a calendar of where Birdie will be parked, so you can check it out, too! A terrific selection to choose from- I know I’ll be back.

What a cool idea. Here is the owner/ proprietor Robin Richey.

Birdie the Yarnbyrds Mobile Yarn Store

Facebook Instagram Ravelry

Yarnbyrds Logo

Exterior of Birdie

Robin’s husband Tom did all the LED lighting in the truck and so all the yarn shows in true color which is really important in a yarn store! He’s an electrical engineer.

Robin creates the project bags. There’s jewelry and Drunk Yarn kits for dying.

Yarnbyrds on Facebook

November 14, 2016November 14, 2016 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: Central Ohio, Columbus OH, crochet, family, fiber arts, food truck, knitting, Mobile Yarn Store, people at work, photography, postaday, Recreational Vehicle, RV, sock yarn, yarn, Yarn Truck, Yarnbyrds 13 Comments

Lunenburg Nova Scotia-Guest Blog

Today I received a skein of sock yarn in the mail from my friend Joanne. The name of the colorway is beach glass. She sent a little bag of smooth beach glass, too. Here’s the photo I took of the yarn

Here are the photos Joanne emailed to me today.

“Here are a few photos from Lunenburg – such a lovely little town.
The Mariner’s Daughter is the yarn store.
A few street scenes.
Our lunch – mussels with garlic and cream; and a lobster roll.”The Mariner’s Daughter

October 26, 2016October 26, 2016 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: beach glass, Canada, friendship, guest blog, knitting, Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, photography, postaday, sock yarn, The Mariner's Daughter, yarn 9 Comments

Transition: Weekly Photo Challenge

A single image was my goal.

Transition

(The hat pattern is Sockhead Hat by Kelly McClure on Ravelry)

November 28, 2015 by Ruth Categories: knitting, Weekly Photo ChallengeTags: iPhone photography, knitting, photography, postsday, sock yarn, sockhead hat, transition, weekly photo challenge 27 Comments

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