Knitting and other Creative Endeavors

[Prudence]

Originally Posted by Matterhorn Fan

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Bamboo? That sounds really really cool. Did you order online or do you have awesome yarn store? (I wonder if I have an awesome yarn store?)

For a while last week I thought I might be allergic to wool, but I'm still knitting that sock and my skin isn't reacting anymore (only my face was feeling odd, not my hands). I think it must've been something in the air.

I'm wondering what would be lightweight and cool for Florida-appropriate socks. What I'm using now is mostly wool, but it seems I would be better off with cotton.

My experience is that a light wool is better than cotton. (Based on sweaty cotton garbed reinactors up against refreshed-looking wool and linen garbed sorts.) The wool/bamboo stuff says it's moisture wicking or something like that. And it's machine wash/tumble dry! Yay! I have a plethora of awsome yarn stores, although my current favorite is main street yarn in Mill Creek.

The yarn brand is Regia. I think I got what is shown here as Jamaica and Blue Spot.

Oh - and you might be allergic to the lanolins or something like that. Oils that are sometimes left in and sometimes removed from wool.