49170 Platinum Sock Blanks

This is our classic, undyed, sock yarn, knitted into sock blanks. Available in both single knitted, and double knitted options, it behaves impeccably no matter what you do to it. The yarn sucks up the dye like a dream, it speckles really well, hand-paints and glazing techniques work nicely, and it knits into socks creating a soft even fabric. Not only for socks, this would also work for hard-wearing, yet soft garments. This is an essential yarn to include in your range.

Sock blanks should be soaked in very warm water to loosen the knitted fabric prior to dyeing. This is the key to ensuring that the dye saturates the yarn.

Sock blanks can be dyed or painted in a variety of ways. Making horizontal dye patterns will yield wider sections of colour in the final knitted fabric, where vertical or diagonal applications of colour will give a more varied appearance in the final knitted fabric. Blanks can be used to create self-striping yarns.

The blank can be unravelled easily from one end (there is a right end and a wrong end – the wrong end has a lock stitch at both edges and won't unravel smoothly). The knitter can knit directly from the dyed blank, or the blank can be wound into a ball for a more traditional approach.