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Ploshkin

Goat socks
« on: February 10, 2020, 11:07:12 AM »
I've just finished these socks, I like to do a bit of sock knitting between bigger things.  The yarn is a discontinued Rowan one which is a wool / mohair / polyamide / silk mix.  I have 3 pairs of goat socks that I bought years (6, 7, more?) ago from Wiggly Wigglers.  WW don't sell them any more but I believe that they are Corrymoor goat socks.   They were expensive but I have worn them, in wellies, for years over the top of a pair of cotton socks.  They're not thick but are very warm and very hard wearing.  I have had to dispose of 2 out of the 6 socks this year so I suspect the others haven't got long left.  I set about looking for a goat yarn that was suitable for socks but seemed to be going round in circles.  The yarn I used is nothing like my goat socks but hopefully I will get some good wear out of them.  I've got another skein of the Rowan yarn in blues.
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sewingj

Re: Goat socks
« Reply #1 on: February 10, 2020, 11:45:41 AM »
Very disappointed that this isn't about socks for goats
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Bodgeitandscarper

Re: Goat socks
« Reply #2 on: February 10, 2020, 13:52:50 PM »
I was expecting pics of goats wearing socks.

I is disappointed.
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Acorn

Re: Goat socks
« Reply #3 on: February 10, 2020, 14:03:28 PM »
Me too.  You've really let us down @Ploshkin!   :\

But your socks are lovely, even without a goat wearing them.  ;)  :D
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b15erk

Re: Goat socks
« Reply #4 on: February 10, 2020, 14:06:49 PM »
Beautiful socks @Ploshkin , but I'm another who would have loved a picture of a goat actually wearing them... ;)

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Flobear

Re: Goat socks
« Reply #5 on: February 10, 2020, 14:12:08 PM »
Lovely socks, @Ploshkin . I never got round to buying any Wiggly goat socks.

I presume if I mention the Alpaca scarf that I knitted, certain imaginative types will see

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b15erk

Re: Goat socks
« Reply #6 on: February 10, 2020, 15:07:12 PM »
 :D :D :D :D :D

Jessie
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Efemera

Re: Goat socks
« Reply #7 on: February 10, 2020, 18:19:06 PM »
There you go...
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BrendaP

Re: Goat socks
« Reply #8 on: February 10, 2020, 20:21:44 PM »
Quote from: Ploshkin on February 10, 2020, 11:07:12 AM
  I have 3 pairs of goat socks that I bought years (6, 7, more?) ago from Wiggly Wigglers.  WW don't sell them any more but I believe that they are Corrymoor goat socks.   

@Ploshkin  Those Corrymoor socks are mohair.  Goat hair/wool is cashmere.
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Ploshkin

Re: Goat socks
« Reply #9 on: February 10, 2020, 20:39:48 PM »
@BrendaP mohair comes from angora goats (angora comes from rabbits)
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BrendaP

Re: Goat socks
« Reply #10 on: February 10, 2020, 20:46:31 PM »
@Ploshkin  Yes. 

Mohair from angora goats and cashmere from cashmere goats.
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Renegade Sewist

Re: Goat socks
« Reply #11 on: February 11, 2020, 02:45:38 AM »
I'm glad I'm not alone in anticipating goats wearing socks.  :)
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Ploshkin

Re: Goat socks
« Reply #12 on: February 11, 2020, 07:46:34 AM »
Unfortunately, I don't do photoshop or similar otherwise I would oblige with a goat wearing socks!
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Renegade Sewist

Re: Goat socks
« Reply #13 on: February 11, 2020, 19:46:56 PM »
Quote from: Ploshkin on February 11, 2020, 07:46:34 AM
Unfortunately, I don't do photoshop or similar otherwise I would oblige with a goat wearing socks!
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No, no.  Real goats, real socks. No photoshop madness.
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