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experiment with plain, unadorned sock yarn.

Why? I had just done a trade on a handspinning list on yahoo.

My trading partner had sent me  several cones of what looked to be a very vintage blending thread: Bucilla Silk Tweed.

That’s it in the pic, sitting just above the needles.   Oooh… yummy stuff!

I have used the Bucilla Silk Tweed thread in all kinds of projects and absolutely love it.

It’s a slubby, mostly super fine strand of quite lively thread that blends beautifully with any yarn that it is held together with.

I have woven it into shawls and scarves, and all knitted all kinds of socks with it.

But, I had forgotten about my original plan for the tweeded-up wild color socks until just recently.

A week or so ago, I wrote about a pair of socks that I have just recently knitted and tatted flowers onto:

Flower top socks

Well… those socks made me remember the balls of  Sox yarn. I dug out a balls of turquoise, red and purple, and a cone of the Bucilla Silk Tweed thread:

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The plan is to tat flowers onto the tops of these socks, as well. I am going to  use green yarn for the stemmie bits and bright yellow for the flowers.  I am sick of winter drab and am breaking out by knitting oh so colorful sockies!

I just love the silk thread so much and am sadly, running out of it.

I was wondering if there is anything in the current marketplace that is close to the Bucilla Silk Tweed?

I googled and searched  and came up blank on it.

So then, I thought… what about blending threads?

So I googled on that, and came up with Kreinik’s blending threads that are mostly meant for embroidery:

photo by Noreen Crone-Findlay copyright

The Kreinik blending threads are really neat, but I don’t think I would use them in the body of a sock.

I think that I will, however, experiment to see how it looks with the tatted flower sections at the top of the socks.

I love tatting with metallic threads, so it’s worthwhile to do some sampling.

BUT…. finding something that resembles the silk tweed has totally eluded me and it remains a mystery.

Do you know if such a thing still exists and who carries it?

I bet someone out there knows!

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