As someone who isn’t religious, knitting a pair of socks covered in crosses felt a little odd. The black yarn is Knitpick’s glittery stroll, and the rainbow is West Yorkshire Spinners (WYS) Signature sock yarn. The WYS yarn looks very similar to the Opal, but it has a different shade of blue in it. Both are equally as nice to knit with. I know that a pair of socks I made with a different Opal sock yarn has stood up really well, far beyond all other sock yarns except crazy Zauberball. I don’t know if the rainbow Opal will stand up the same as that Opal from the past. It’s always hard when I’m making so many socks, because I never see how well certain sock yarns wear. The socks typically go to many different homes, to people who wear their socks very differently and with highly varying frequencies. Plus they don’t tell me when the socks start to wear through. So I have very little data on how all these sock yarns wear in comparison to each other. It’s frustrating. I’m forced to pick yarns based on colors, feel and, of course, price, and make guesses based on that as to how long the socks might last. Maybe someone at work has a machine that tests abrasion, and I could put swatches of various sock yarns in that…
