Monterey Bay Coastline Collection: Starry Sock

Celestial Wool and Fibers is excited to share with you this collection that is near and dear to their heart. Monterey has been their home now for over ten years! They wanted to celebrate and share the things they find so beautiful about this special place.

Keep your toes warm even in Monterey's famous summer fog with Starry Sock. Whether you use a looser gauge for light, breathable socks or a tight gauge for dense and warm socks, this base is perfect for your knitting needs. Nylon adds durability to make sure your socks last for years to come.

All of Celestial Wool and Fibers' yarn is hand-dyed in Monterey, California.

Colorways

Kelp is a warm lovely green with highlights of chartreuse and lowlights of olive. Perfect for showing off a beautiful cable pattern with its mossy cottage vibe.

Driftwood matches our Monterey driftwood so perfectly that it's just *chef's kiss*. It's the perfect cozy neutral with enough character to give your project some color texture and visual interest.

Seawater is a luscious, vibrant teal with hints of deep bright blue and electric green blending together in a magical way.

Marine Layer is a beautiful calming blue-toned silver that shows off CWaF's favorite thing about Monterey: the weather! It's foggy and cloudy almost all year round thanks to our famous Marine Layer. The moisture in the cold air from the ocean moves toward the warmer inland air, but gets trapped over Monterey by the Coastal Range mountains to create our beloved fog.

Endless Summer is a variegated colorway with swaths of sunshine yellow, deep teal, and grassy green. CWaF threw all their happy colors into one dye pan to see what would happen, and this was the result!

Cypress Grove is inspired by those iconic spiky windblown trees that grow right out of the rocky coastline. The tonal cozy brown is perfect for the transition to fall.

Sunset is a gorgeous speckled colorway with golden oranges, subtle peaches, and warm yellows topped with a light dusting of red and pink speckles.

Sock bundles

A limited quantity of Starry Sock is available bundled with a 20g mini skein of Starry Sock in a contrasting tone.

The Sunset Bundle comes with one skein of Starry Sock in Sunset with a mini in a tonal purple that's halfway between lavender and violet.

The Marine Layer Bundle comes with one skein of Starry Sock in Marine Layer with a mini in a subtly variegated denim blue and royal purple.

Our notes

After making a few of our own projects with this thread, here's what we've found:

Elastic and springy: Starry Sock has a surprising amount of elasticity once it's knit up or crocheted. Size your needles or hook down to get a more dense fabric if desired.

Vibrant, saturated colors: Celestial Wool and Fibers doesn't disappoint with these richly dyed colorways. Each skein is truly unique, and even the more neutral shades have a lot of depth of color.

May be splitty with sharp needles: If you've found you're prone to splitting yarn, or prefer extra-sharp lace needles, you may find it easy to split this yarn.

Great stitch definition: Stitches are crisp and easy to see, in all of the crafts we used to swatch this yarn.

Locally dyed: All of Celestial Wool and Fibers' yarn is dyed right here in the Monterey Bay Area.

Swatch details

All swatches were wet blocked before measuring. These swatch measurements were done with colorways from the standard Starry Sock line.

Knit

• Colors: Chestnut Roan, Wuthering Heights, Poison Dart Frog
• Swatcher: Avery
• Needles: US 4 / 3.5mm
• Stitch: Stockinette with a garter stitch border
• Gauge:
  
  • Chestnut Roan: 23 stitches and 31 rows per 4" / 10cm
  • Wuthering Heights: 22 stitches and 31 rows per 4" / 10cm
  • Poison Dart Frog: 22 stitches and 31 rows per 4" / 10cm

Crochet

• Colors: Chestnut Roan, Wuthering Heights, Poison Dart Frog
• Swatcher: Avery
• Hook: 3.25mm
• Stitch: Half double crochet
• Gauge: 24 stitches and 18 rows per 4" / 10cm

Nalbind

• Colors: Chestnut Roan, Wuthering Heights, Poison Dart Frog
• Swatcher: Stephanie
• Tension: Needle, 20mm circumference
• Stitch: Oslo F1
• Gauge:
  
  • Chestnut Roan: 38 stitches and 20 rows per 4" / 10cm
  • Wuthering Heights: 40 stitches and 22 rows per 4" / 10cm
  • Poison Dart Frog: 40 stitches and 21 rows per 4" / 10cm

Weave

• Colors: Chestnut Roan, Wuthering Heights, Poison Dart Frog
• Swatcher: Stephanie
• Sett: 8 ends per inch
• Structure: Plain weave
  • Chestnut Roan: 47 picks per inch
  • Wuthering Heights: 51 picks per inch
  • Poison Dart Frog: 47 picks per inch
• Warp: Size 10 crochet cotton