{"id":7988,"date":"2015-12-02T07:17:27","date_gmt":"2015-12-02T12:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hillsyarn.wpengine.com\/?p=7988"},"modified":"2016-09-27T19:29:54","modified_gmt":"2016-09-27T23:29:54","slug":"hello-coopknits-socks-yeah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hillsboroughyarn.com\/yarn\/hello-coopknits-socks-yeah\/","title":{"rendered":"Hello, CoopKnits Socks Yeah!"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’re excited to announce the arrival of a brand new sock yarn: meet CoopKnits Socks Yeah!<\/p>\n

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Socks Yeah! is the inaugural yarn from designer Rachel Coopey, also known as CoopKnits. We first discovered Rachel Coopey through CoopKnits Toasty Volume 1<\/a><\/em>, a collection of accessories she designed using Baa Ram Ewe Titus<\/a>. A closer look at her body of design work reveals a sock-knitting devotee, just the sort of person who ought to be dreaming up sock yarns.<\/p>\n

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CoopKnits Socks Yeah! is a hard-wearing, machine-washable blend of superwash merino wool and nylon, and it’s put up in 50 gram, 231 yard hanks. It comes in 10 solid colors, many of which are light in value, and both of those features make it ideal for showing off texture patterns, cables, and lace.<\/p>\n

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Solid colors are also ideal for stripes and stranded colorwork, so I’ve been considering the possible color combinations, in pairs and in trios.<\/p>\n

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If you’re wondering just what to knit with a couple of hanks of Socks Yeah!, there are lots of good places to look for sock patterns. We have cubbies full of sock books and binders full of sock patterns, and Ravelry is bursting with many more. To begin with, check out Rachel Coopey,<\/a> if you haven’t yet.<\/p>\n

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We have copies of her CoopKnits Socks Volume 2<\/em> here at the shop, which is certainly worth flipping through.\u00a0“Phloem”<\/a>\u00a0and “Echevaria”<\/a> are intriguing free patterns, and for a few dollars, I like the look of “Arkin,”<\/a>\u00a0“Emlyn,”<\/a>\u00a0and “Crenate,”<\/a> among others.<\/p>\n

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Look for CoopKnits Socks Yeah! in the fingering weight section here at the shop, and look closely, for the heathered colorways that look solid from a distance are far more complicated up close.<\/p>\n

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See you at the shop!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We’re excited to announce the arrival of a brand new sock yarn: meet CoopKnits Socks Yeah! Socks Yeah! is the inaugural yarn from designer Rachel Coopey, also known as CoopKnits. We first discovered Rachel Coopey through CoopKnits Toasty Volume 1, a collection of accessories she designed using Baa Ram Ewe Titus. A closer look at … [more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7993,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[303,59,48,53,100],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hillsboroughyarn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7988"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hillsboroughyarn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hillsboroughyarn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hillsboroughyarn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hillsboroughyarn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hillsboroughyarn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hillsboroughyarn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hillsboroughyarn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hillsboroughyarn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hillsboroughyarn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}