Socks
Socks are a staple to many knitters, and we at City Knitting are duly enthusiastic about knitted footwear. So enthusiastic, in fact, that we’ve decided to devote a page of our website to the proliferation of socks. Below, you will find a list of the sock yarns that we carry, along with descriptions that include fiber content, color patterning details, and other handy snippets to assist you in choosing The Perfect Sock Yarn for your next toe-warming project. [Page in progress…more content arriving daily.]
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Yarn
The list below is organized alphabetically by brand, with the different varieties within the brand listed in turn. The brief yarn descriptions refer to the photo below; the green-boxed captions refer to the photo above each box.
Austermann
Spun with aloe vera and jojoba oil, it’s like wearing a foot massage; knits up into varying widths of even stripes (you can make a pair match if you watch the striping pattern when you cast on sock #2):
- Step
- 75% virgin wool, 25% nylon. 100g, 458y per skein ($22.45)
- Gauge: 7-8 sts/1″
- Available in self-striping and fair isle effects
Brown Sheep
Your basic wool blend sock yarn, available in numerous solid colors and a few heathery tweeds. You’ll need two 50-gram skeins for a pair of adult socks made out of Wildfoote:
- Wildfoote
- 75% washable wool, 25% nylon. 50g, 215y per skein ($5.85)
- Gauge: 7-8 sts/1″
Cascade
- Fixation
- 98.3% cotton, 1.7 % elastic. 50g, 186 y per skein ($4.65)
- Gauge: 6-7 sts/1″
Claudia Handpainted Yarn
This delectable fingering weight yarn glides through the fingers in splashes of robust color. Mostly variegated options, but there are also some “almost solid” shades for the picking:
- Claudia Fingering Weight
- 100% merino wool. 50g, 180y per skein ($11.95)
- Gauge : 7-8 sts/1″
Colinette
- Jitterbug
- 100% easy care merino. 110g, 318y per skein ($21)
- Gauge: 6.5-7.5 sts /1″
Crystal Palace
We know it’s a little corny, but this stuff sure knits up nicely! Available in 31 colors, including some vibrant solids and wild variegated combinations, “Maizy” is made partly of corn fiber and is a little bit stretchy, making it perfect for summer socks (you’ll need two skeins for a pair):
- Maizy
- 82% corn fiber, 18% elastic nylon. 50g, 204y per skein ($6.40)
- Gauge: 7-8 sts/1″
Also from Crystal Palace, “Panda Cotton” sports a little bamboo, which is a natural wicking agent to keep moisture away from your feet:
- Panda Cotton
- 59% bamboo, 25% cotton, 16% elastic cotton. 50g, 182y per skein ($7)
- Gauge: 6-7 sts/1″
- Panda Wool
- 51% bamboo, 39% wool, 10% nylon. 50g, 186y per skein ($7.50)
- Gauge: 7-8sts/1″
- Panda Silk
- 52% bamboo, 43% superwash merino, 5% combed silk. 50g, 204y per skein ($8.85)
- Gauge: 7-8 sts/1″
Kertzer
- On Your Toes
- 75% bamboo, 25% nylon. 100g, 328y per skein ($14)
- Gauge: 7sts/1″
Lana Grossa
Subtle, random striping (you can’t make the stripes match in a pair); this yarn can be knit up in simple chevron patterns, but intricate lacework could be lost in the shuffle:
- Bosco
- 80% virgin wool, 20% nylon. 100g, 460y per skein ($14.95)
- Gauge: 7-8 sts/1″
These three varieties are available in a huge range of colors and stripes. Each has its own striping and colorway, some including fair isle patterning. Some have wide stripes, some thinner. (Stripes in a pair of socks can be made to match):
- Fantasy, Fun & Stripes, and Multieffekt
- 80% virgin wool, 20% nylon. 100g, 460y per skein ($15.25)
- Gauge: 7-8 sts/1″
- The fingering weight cotton blends from Lana Grossa come in a variety of choices. Stretchy solids, earthy stripes, and bright fair isles
- Meilenweit Cotton Stretch
- 41% cotton, 39% superwash virgin wool, 20% synthetic fibers. 100g, 503y per skein ($14.95)
- Gauge: 8 sts/1″
- Meilenweit Cotton Fantasy, Terra, & Multieffekt (clockwise from top)
- 45% cotton, 42% virgin wool, 13% nylon. 100g, 418y per skein ($14.95-$15.25)
- Gauge: 6.5-8 sts/1″
- Seta/Cashmere
- 65% virgin wool, 15% silk, 16% polyamide, 4% cashmere; machine washable. 50g, 207y per skein ($10.95)
- Gauge: 7.5 sts/1″
Louet
- Gems fingering weight/ super fine
- 100% merino wool, machine washable & dryable. 50g, 185 y per skein ($7.95)
- Gauge: 6.5-7.5 sts/1″
Noro
- Kureyon Sock self-striping
- 70% superwash wool, 30% nylon. 100g, 460y per skein ($18.95)
- Gauge: 8-9 sts/1″
- COMING SOON! Silk Garden Sock self-striping
Opal
Soft, lightweight socks are perfect for warmer weather. This yarn is delightful and creative: each colorway is based upon a painting by the artist Hundertwasser; there is a thumbprint of the painting on the ball band, and you can see the colors from the painting emerge as you knit the sock:
- Variations on the work of Hundertwasser
- 39% virgin wool, 13% nylon, 48% cotton. 100g, 450y per skein ($19.95)
- Gauge: 7-8 sts/1″
Whimsical colors and patterns use rainforest animals as inspiration in another yarn from Opal. Colorways available are tucan, caterpillar, tiger, peacock, bumblebee, frog, butterfly, and snake (not all are shown in the photo):
- Rainforest
- 75% virgin wool, 25% nylon. 100g, 463y per skein ($16.95)
- Gauge: 7-8 sts/1″
- Opal Cotton
- 38% superwash wool, 32% polyamide, 30% cotton. 100g, 460y per skein ($16.95)
- Gauge: 7 sts/1″
Plymouth
Wide stripes, narrow stripes, or fair isle effect, this cotton blend is a bright, extremely affordable option:
- Sockotta
- 45% cotton, 40% superwash wool, 15% nylon. 100g, 414y per skein ($9 - $9.25).
- Gauge: 7-8 sts/1″
Regia
- Bamboo Color
- 45% bamboo, 40% superwash wool, 15% polyamide. 50g, 220y per skein ($9.05)
- Gauge: 7-8 sts/1″
- Kaffe Fassett Landscape (self-striping) & Mirage (variegated)
- 75% superwash wool, 25% polyamide. 50g, 230y per skein ($7.95)
- Gauge: 7-8 sts/1″
Schoeller + Stahl
Another great yarn for summer socks, Sockina Cotton is soft and supple. It self-patterns in stripes with some rows of a checker motif:
- Sockina Cotton
- 55% cotton, 25% nylon, 20% acrylic. 100g, 339 y per skein ($15.95)
- Gauge: 7-8 sts/1″
- Fortissima Socka
- 60% superwash wool, 40% polycon. 50g, 212y per skein ($7.95)
- Gauge: 7-8 sts/1″
- Fortissima Socka Teddy & Teddy Color
- 65% polyamide, 35% superwash wool. 50g, 136 y per skein ($9.95 & $10.50)
- Gauge: 5.5 -6.5 sts/1″
- Fortissima Socka Colori & Mexiko Color
- 75% superwash wool, 25% polyamide. 100g, 460y per skein ($19.95)
- Gauge: 7.5 sts/1″
Trekking - Zitron
- Trekking Pro Natura
- 75% superwash wool, 25% bamboo. 100g, 459y per skein ($19.95)
- Gauge: 8-9 sts/1″
- available in solids and self-striping colorways
- Trekking hand art
- 75% superwash wool, 25% nylon. 100g, 459y per skein ($19.95)
- Gauge: 8-9 sts/1″
- Trekking XXL
- 75% superwash wool, 25% nylon. 100g, 459y per skein ($16.75)
- Gauge: 8-9 sts/1″
- available in a variety of self-striping colorways
Yarn Hollow
Locally dyed in Grand Rapids!
- Panda Wool Superwash
- 60% superwash merino, 30% bamboo, 19% nylon. 110g, 434y per skein ($18)
- Gauge: 6-7 sts/1″
- hand-dyed semi-solids and multicolors
- Panda Cotton
- 55% bamboo, 24% cotton, 21% elastic nylon. 110g, 344y per skein ($16)
- Gauge: 6-7 sts/1″
- hand-dyed semi-solids and multicolors