WYS Christmas yarns and socks 2020
Well, have I got something lovely to talk to you about today!
I haven’t been able to say much about what I was knitting over the Spring and Summer this year, but now all can be revealed … in fact, you may have seen what I was up to and started to knit it for yourself! (It’s such fun to be cryptic sometimes! 🙂 )
Have you guessed? It’s the West Yorkshire Spinners Christmas 2020 yarn!
I know it’s only October but we knitters have to work to a different timescale sometimes and especially if we’re gift knitting. That’s why West Yorkshire Spinners released their Christmas yarns in September – I was thrilled to be asked to design their Christmas sock pattern again this year and that’s why I needed to be knitting Christmas socks during these long hot weeks we had over the Spring and Summer!
Not just one sock pattern, though … this year is a bit different. Read on – although do be warned, this is a long, picture-heavy post!
Every year for the last 5 years, West Yorkshire Spinners have released a new yarn especially for Christmas. First was Holly Berry, then Candy Cane, Fairy Lights and Robin (the Robin pattern has been renamed Blitzen – I’ll explain later), and each of them came with a free sock pattern – still available on the WYS website if you click the links above for each sock colour. I designed the patterns for Candy Cane, Fairy Lights and Robin, and every year it’s been a joy to see how these special Christmas colours knit up and to explore what I could do with them.
Holly Berry and Robin became permanent additions to the WYS Signature 4ply range and have been very popular, as you can imagine.
Candy Cane and Fairy Lights were produced as limited edition yarns and both were again very popular. They’re quite different to the more muted colours of Holly Berry and Robin, aren’t they?
All of the yarns are striped; Robin matches the other yarns in the Country Birds range, Candy Cane is made up of just three colours which looks very effective, and Holly Berry and Fairy Lights are also striped in a way that will be familiar to those who have knitted with WYS yarn before. Oh, they are so good at creating striped yarns!
This year, the WYS Christmas Elves were looking to do something a little bit different. Waaay back in the Spring they asked whether I would be able to design the new pattern for them, and of course I snatched their hands off!
“What’s the yarn going to look like this year?” I asked.
“Ah well, it’s still in production so we can’t tell you,” they said (producing yarn is a secretive business and I’m only told what I need to know!) “But we can tell you that it’s called “Silent Night” so imagine a Christmas card …”
Oh, I could see it in my mind’s eye immediately – a dark night with a bright star above a stable. Shades of blue and silver; a thousand images from a childhood growing up with Christmas traditions and stories. Can you see it too?
What’s special about the yarn this year is that it’s got a sparkle to it (it’s called Signature Sparkle), a silver thread that runs right through the yarn and catches the light when you knit. And what you also need to know – most importantly – is that it’s not scratchy at all (scratchy sparkly yarns are not nice to knit or wear!). It was the first thing I asked about, and the WYS Elves said that it was most definitely not scratchy because that was high on their list of priorities too. This is what I like, a yarn company on my wavelength!
It’s also not striped, or rather, not striped in the same way as the others. The lines are much more subtle and I think it makes a lovely change.
I made a grab for my stitch dictionaries.
“Wait, there’s more,” said the WYS Elves. “We’re going to bring back Candy Candy and Fairy Lights this year because we know that people have missed using them – and we’re going to make Fairy Lights in Signature Sparkle too!”
Oh wow! TWO sparkly yarns! And a new pattern for each of them … I went to get some more ice for my drink and sat in the shade to think about it all 🙂 This year, there would be FIVE Christmas yarns to choose from, a new free pattern for Silent Night and a pattern book with patterns for each of the yarns. That was just Christmas-tastic! 🎄
And now, in October, I can tell you about them all.
I’ve already shown you the yarns, but now I can talk to you about all the knitting I’ve been doing and show you the patterns too!
As you’ll know, I always try to write my patterns so that they’re not beyond anybody who wants to give them a go. Having knitted a basic sock helps, but I firmly believe that when a pattern calls to us then we’re much more likely to give it a go and finish it, no matter whether we might think it’s beyond us or not. It’s good for us to be fearless knitters and step out of our comfort zones once in a while!
Here’s the pattern for the Silent Night yarn, first of all. It’s called Comet, as all of the patterns are named after Father Christmas’s reindeer (I told you I would explain!).
It’s a mid-calf length sock with a lace panel down the centre which is repeated on the back of the sock, although of course you could knit that plain if one lace panel was enough for you. There are rib sections down the sides to give a good fit and the lace panel is 20 rounds long which means that whenever you’ve completed a panel section, you’ve knitted a fair portion of your sock too which is always encouraging to see on your needles!
A physical copy of Comet is free with each ball of Silent Night purchased (whilst stocks last) but you can also download a copy of the pattern from the WYS website here. I designed it to work with Silent Night, but of course it would look good with any of the Signature 4ply colours, and also the solid shades too.
Now let me tell you about the pattern book!
I love this little book! It’s A5 sized so is a great size to fit into a project bag or sit next to you wherever you are knitting, and in an inspired move, WYS now produce their pattern books in spiral bound format so that it’s easy to keep the pages flat whilst you’re working. You can find the book at online stockists and in my shop here.
It contains seven patterns, including the free Comet pattern for this year, so there’s plenty of knitting packed into a small space! They’re all written for four sizes, and there’s something new in there as well so read on …
Dasher is knitted in Holly Berry. It’s a simple rib and texture pattern, ideal as a first step away from a basic sock into something that takes a bit more thought, but the pattern is so easy to remember that you’ll fly through this pair.
Here’s a close up of the pattern so that you can see how easy it is …
The pattern reminded me of tyre tracks on snow, and they’ll be super-comfy inside wellies and walking boots during the colder weather.
Prancer is knitted in Candy Cane. Ooh, those delicious colours! I wanted to create something that reminded me of the twisted sweeties that the yarn is named after, so I used twisted stitches to create stripes of texture between the knitted rib sections. This pattern is only 4 rounds so you’ll soon have it memorised and be twirling your way down your socks!
Here’s a closer look at the twisted pattern …
Both socks are knitted the same but the heel is worked on opposite sides so that the twists run in opposite directions on both feet.
Blitzen is knitted in Robin. It’s a paperchain cable design – you may well have knitted it last year as it was the pattern that came with the yarn, but the WYS Elves wanted to include it here as well because it’s been such a hit. What’s not to love about paperchains? I think they used to be one of my favourite things about pre-Christmas preparations – colouring in strips of paper and then sticking them together to make the chains. When I was very small, I can remember seeing them strung across the ceiling in our house with other paper decorations, and sometimes we would come downstairs in the morning to find the whole lot on the floor and my Dad would have to stick them back up again. I bet he was always very glad when it reached Twelfth Night!
The cables are worked on the front and the back of the sock, but again you could choose just to work them on the front if both was a bit out of your comfort zone.
Dancer is knitted in the new sparkly Fairy Lights yarn. Oh what fun this was to create! I spent a long time searching for just the right stitch to evoke the idea of fairy lights but without all the tangled cables and testing each bulb to see that they worked!
The cables are designed to flow in opposite directions on each sock so that it doesn’t matter which way round you put your socks on, the cables will complement each other. I loved the way that they turned out, zig zagging down the socks but still keeping the colour stripes in line.
And finally, there are two more patterns in Silent Night. Yes, you read that right – TWO more patterns!
The first is something completely different … a knee high sock! At first, when WYS mentioned that they would like a longer sock, I wondered who would wear them because I haven’t worn knee high socks since I was at school – and almost as if you had heard me, I suddenly got a flurry of messages and posts in my Facebook groups asking me about them! It was definitely a sign, I thought, and reminded me that just because I haven’t worn knee high socks for 30 years, it doesn’t mean that other people don’t wear them either!
Well, always up for a knitting challenge, I set to work! The main design element of knee high socks is getting them to fit your calf. I knew the theory of it because I’d talked about it with people before, but now I had to work out the maths to go with it – and the result is in the pattern book! I have written the patterns for four calf sizes so hopefully there should be one that fits, even if you have larger calves as many people told me they had and that was what put them off. And then I wanted to make sure that there was a longer sock version for those who might not want to go all the way up to their knees, so there’s a slouch version too.
Vixen, the knee high and slouch sock pattern, is written with the same lace panel as Comet down the front of the sock, but with ribbing down the back to accommodate calves of different sizes – if you don’t want to go knee high, you can use the slouch version and it will still go higher up your leg than the mid-calf version because of the ribbing.
There isn’t a photo of the slouch version to show you as it’s very similar to the other two, but this is what the decreases look like on the knee high version so you can see how they work. I was very pleased with the way they turned out – they reminded me of branches of a tree (a Christmas tree, perhaps? 🙂 )
Phew, that’s a lot of Christmas sock knitting right there! It’s been lovely to see so much of it around on social media already, but of course there is still time to get started if Christmas socks were on your list, either for you or someone else.
Now, the next question is where you can get all of these luscious yarns and the patterns from! Well, any WYS stockist should have them – they’ve been selling like hot cakes so far, from what I can see, so I don’t think you should have trouble finding them if you’ve got a WYS stockist near you. Here’s the link to the stockists page so that you can see if there’s anyone near you in your country, as WYS yarns are also available overseas.
Alternatively, you can buy online – try the stockist list to see if there’s anyone in your country who could post out to you, or one of the UK stockists – CityKnits*, Northern Yarn*, Black Sheep Wools and Wool Warehouse usually have stock and it’s worth trying the smaller yarn stores too as all of the yarn shops need our support (especially now!).
You can also enter my FABULOUS giveaway! YES! You really did read that right and let me tell you what I’ve got to post to one lucky winner …
My lovely friends at West Yorkshire Spinners have been very generous and I have one of each of the five balls of WYS Christmas yarn, a copy of the Comet free pattern and a copy of the pattern book containing the seven sock patterns. Woohoo!
To enter the giveaway, please tell me which of the Christmas colourways is your favourite.
Entries to the giveaway will close at 8pm BST on Wednesday 28 October 2020 and I will let you know the winners as soon as possible after that time (it may get to Saturday but I won’t have forgotten! 🙂 ). I am happy to post the prizes anywhere in the world so don’t feel that you can’t be part of this because you don’t live in the UK. Don’t worry if you don’t have a Google or blog account to leave a comment, you can leave it as “anonymous” but don’t forget to put your name in the comment so that when I post the winners I’ll be able to identify you so that you can get in touch for your prize (and please do come back to check if you’re a winner)! Oh, and also don’t worry that your comment doesn’t show straight away – the comments are set for me to check them before they upload to the blog to make sure that no spam gets through so they are all safely stored in my blog messages until I’ve seen them. I’ll make sure they’re all uploaded on time!
There will be another giveaway over on Instagram and it’s OK to enter twice if you would like to – and I know that some people struggle to leave comments on Blogger so that might be an option for you instead.
Good luck with your entry – and with your Christmas knitting, whatever you’ve got lined up to finish before Father Christmas and his reindeer make a landing on your roof! 🎄
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Oh my goodness what an amazing giveaway!! My favourite is definitely fairy lights. So bright and fun, and a sparkly version is too cool.
Thank you Christine, fairy lights is my favourite. Jo Dempster
My favourite is Holly Berry. It was the first of the Christmas yarns I knitted with a couple of years back, but I also think it’s Christmassy without being too Christmassy so I can wear my socks throughout the year.
My favourite yarn is Robin!
What a fabulous giveaway! My favourite has to be Silent Night, but to be honest I would love to make socks out of all of them! X
It's so hard to pick but I think it has to be Holly Berry as I was lucky enough to be given a pair in this having introduced my auntie to the joys of sock knitting! Hannah Stace
I love Silent Night, for the cours, the sparkle, and the memories it evokes.
Jen Heald. Despite loving all the yarns I have to say my favourite is still Robin. The colours are so lovely.
Candy cane, but hard to choose Pauline hustings
Dancer with all the sparkles @lisapinenotes on Instagram
Silent Night is my favourite out of all of these. What a fantastic collaboration – the patterns look amazing.
Silent night – blue as Xmas eve sky!
That be my favourite
Marie Foulk
Candy cane is my favourite! Michelle Thompson
Comet is my favourite!
Alison Boles
I think my favourite would be the new "Silent Night". Love that song, can play it on the flute. I also inherited a Hummel figurine angel from my grandma that has a music box playing "Silent Night"
Starry Night- Emily Tweed
My goodness what a fabulous giveaway. I love them all the same so I will select one but they are all equal – Blitzen. I have toes, legs, fingers crossed that this giveaway would like to make the trip downunder. Xxx
My favourite is fairy lights, I love the twinkling as the light catches the shine as I am knitting. Lovely colours twinkling in a cosy room on a winters night 🥗❤️
Thank you Christine for the wonderful patterns
Carol Ellis
Holly Berry is definitely my favorite. But I bought them all.
My favourite is Fairy Lights yarn.
I love silent night although robin comes in a close second. Lovely sock patterns too Thank you Christine
Silent night is my favourite, such a lovely colour 🙂
Silent Night is my favourite! I love blues and a bit of sparkle is great 🙂
I love Robin it was my first christmas yarn I purchased for a newly found local yarn shop x
How fabulous! I loooooove the look of Candy Cane especially, but when I went to get some on the WYS website it was out of stock :'( I've just whizzed through Fairy Lights as a plain sock (one sock in 2 days…!), I'd love to play around with the new patterns you've designed 🙂
Definitely Silent Night is the best. All Patterns will look great using this yarn.
What a fantastic prize Christine! I think my favourite has to be the blue sparkly sock yarn! Love it!!
They are all so lovely Christine, both yarns and your wonderful patterns. My favourite yarn is Fairy Lights as it always makes me smile and reminds me of childhood Christmases, even though I wear them all year round!
I love Fairy Lights yarn.
Wow wow wow!!!! You really are a genius!!! I’m just working on a pair with Silent Night and love it, and have done a pair in Fairy Lighys Sparkle which is fab, but I think my favourite is Candy Cane – it’s just screams CHRISTMAS!!!!!!
All the colours are delicious but my favourite is sparkly fairy lights.
I love silent night , blue is my favourite sock colour and this wool just sings to me . Carol
My favourite colourway is Silent night, I love blue it’s my favourite colour and the sparkles are so beautiful
Silent Night is my favourite. I've had or been given all of the colourways over the years but really love the subtle blue colors and sparkle. This time, the first pair on my needles are for me 🙂
I think Candy Cane is my favorite (already purchased 2 skeins). Can’t wait to make some Christmas socks out of them!!!
Dasher is my favourite (though it was hard to choose!). Well done on creating a beautiful collection xx
I like the new Silent Night colour
Well, I really love the Silent Night colorway, but I also love Blizten! I am knitting the Owl colorway now and I LOVE how it is working up with the different pattern areas mixed in with the colors. I love your yarn so much 🙂 Jennifer G
Gosh! Which is my favourite?Hard to choose but I’m going to go for Comet as it’s blue and sparkly!
What a great prize Giveaway!
Love all the colorways,,,fairy lights is a favorite from last year,,,
And that pattern book looks Great!
I love the Robin colourway. So suited for Winter.
I'd like to enter please – I'd love the silent night yarn if I am lucky enough to win please
💙💙💙💙silent night is sooo squishy, sparkly and I cannot wait to start knitting mine. Total favourite out of the Xmas lineup, but they made it hard to choose. I didn’t get to see the sparkly fairy lights in person but I’m sure it would be a close second. Patricia Matte 🇨🇦
Candy cane is my favourite 😍
Goodness, this is literally what I would buy myself for Christmas (or my birthday 2 weeks before) if I hadn't already reluctantly admitted I can't afford it.�� The range of yarns this year is stunning and the patterns you've created show them off beautifully (I love how different they all are -give me quite the itchy fingers!) Your work is admirable. Hard as it is to choose a favourite colourway, I think Candy Cane wins out -it just screams "Buddy the Elf" to me, and who wouldn't want socks like that?! It has a really strident sense of fun. The pattern looks exciting to knit too; twisting the stitches in different directions on each foot is a lovely idea. I'd cross my fingers if it didn't stop me knitting.
And knee high socks do get requested a LOT!
Silent Night has to be my favourite! Thank you! Marie Blaney-Gray
Blitzen! but I love Holly Berries, too! and the rest are all very lovely! Sock it to me! Happy Holidays!
I love all of them and I'm so delighted that they've brought back all of the Christmas yarns, and this year the new Silent Night is the one that has captured my heart. It feels just like the end of the Christmas Eve church service–it's near midnight and you're that wonderful mix of sleepy and overflowing with joy, and the lights go off and everybody sings "Silent Night" by candlelight. How they managed to capture that feeling in a colorway, I have no idea, but it's so lovely.
Oh Silent Night would be my favourite as I’ve got all the others knitted up into socks, or failing that Robin x x
Lissie Wales
I like the Robin yarn but all lovely. What a great gift to be given. Ann Fitzgerald
I’ve just got the Robin yarn to make my sister some Christmassy socks. I’d love the sparkly Silent Night ones – you can never have enough sparkle! ✨
Hello Christine, The Christmas colours are all lovely, it's hard to choose. I think my favourite is silent night, it looks so sparkly.
Oh how wonderful! I bought Silent Night as soon as I saw your post about it in September, so that’s definitely my favourite. They’re all fun, though! Thanks for this inspiring, informative post!
Thanks for your blog, Christine …. I enjoy reading it. I think Fairy Lights is probably my favourite Christmas yarn, although Holly Berry comes a close second!
Best wishes
Triona
So hard to choose a favourite but would have to say silent night would be number 1 for me
Ohhhhh, silent night, I love the Carol when it's sung in church at midnight mass, one of our later severs songs it solo, absolutely amazing. All the yarns are beautiful though Rosie Gear-Hollis
Wow, what a wonderful opportunity to have a chance to win this pack. My favourite is definitely the sparkly fairy lights, so jolly and cheerful, just what we all need right now.
just today i started silent night for the third time let's hope this time is it love the look of this new yarn and looking forward to it becoming another sock to add to my wys christmas collection
I love Silent night
Difficult choice but I think it has to be Fairy Lights.
Thank you for the opportunity to enter your competition Christine. I love the Comet with the added sparkle ����
Christine Gilsenan
I wish I was a better faster knitter! These all look sooo fun!!! I will get there! I will! 😀
What a fantastic giveaway – thank you! My favourite is candy cane 🍬 those primary colour stripes are so cheerful and remind me of my favourite Christmas movie – Elf! Your pattern with the cables running through the stripes is perfect, I'd love the opportunity to knit these 😁🎅🧦🧶👍
Silent Night for me, reminds me of seeing the milky way on a crisp night. Chris Wheeler.
They are all gorgeous….if I had to choose a favorite it would be candy cane
Congratulations on the lovely work and the deserved recognition of it from the WYS Christmas Elves 🤶
I've never really seen or touch these beautiful Christmas yarns (none of the LYS in my home town have got them) but I think I'm in love with Candy Cane, from the very first time I saw its picture, and would be a great pleasure to knit it with your perfectly matching pattern 👌
Thank you for this great giveaway
Stay safe and thanks for the sharing
Oh Christine, do I really have to choose? They are all so lovely. OK, if you really insist… I do like your Dasher, knitted up in Holly Berry, but, my ultimate favourite, would have to be Blitzen, knitted up in Robin, perfectly Chrismassy! ❤️
My favourite is Robin or should I say was ,I've jyst fallen in love with Silent Night who doesn't love a bit of sparkle! 😍
Robin 💚❤️💚❤️
I love fairy lights, and the idea of fairy lights with sparkles, knitted to your new pattern….
I love them all, but if I have to choose, I would have Robin.
Fairy Lights are my fav!!
I have to get some of that yarn in Silent Night my favorite color way!
Silent Night – I love knitting socks and a would like to try a longer sock as cold weather is almost here in the mountains of North Carolina!
How exciting – I've done three pairs of basic socks and now I'm ready to move onto something a bit more adventurous! Thank you, Christine 😀
Thank you Christine. My favourite is Silent Night…Lorna White
Fairy Lights actually started my interest in sock knitting as it was a purchase of a already made sock that I fell in love with. Always was the one that didn't understand why people would take time to knit socks and now I am one of those people and LOVE IT!!!!!! I've followed your tutorials and can't thank you enough!
I love all the WYS Christmas Yarns but silent night is my favourite this year as it reminds me of crisp clear winter nights with the night sky packed with stars. Can't wait to see how it knits up. I'm a member of your FB groups and a prolific sock knitter!
Thank you Christine for the great giveaway but also for the fabulous patterns you have designed. I love Silent Night. Can’t wait to see the sparkle in the yarn. Anne Dearle
I just love the Silent Night colourway, all the blues and some non-scratchy sparkle; the perfect combination!
I've knitted with all of the wys Christmas yarns, trying to choose a favourite is like asking which of my children I love the most!!! But as you've asked us to choose… Silent Night, there's something magical in the way the light catches the silver thread as I'm knitting.Regards Pat Williams
"OH MY!!!!!" was my immediate reaction when I first saw a picture of Silent Night……I went online right away, found a stockist here in Canada and promptly ordered a skein. Now it's time to bite the bullet and attempt to knit my first socks! haha Thank you for the chance to win such an awesome giveaway! (I have a hankering to knit some Robin/Blitzen socks for my 93 year old Mum, an English War Bride, whose favourite bird is the English Robin). Thanks again!! Pam Irvine
The Robin pattern is lovely especially made with Fairy Light yarn. My first pair of Christmas socks was made from Candy Cane!
I stumbled upon the sparkle yarn, Silent Night and Fairy Lights on line. I discovered that all of these yarns had been sold out in the states, so I ordered from Wool Warehouse–which I love. I also ordered Candy Cane to make socks for my daughter and my grand daughter for Xmas. I love these yarns–beautiful, warm, soft, and hard wearing.
I love them all, but probably Silent Night is my favorite because I always go for the blues and this one is beautiful. The Candy Cane is certainly fun for Christmas, though. Elizabeth Curry
How amazing!! Silent night is definitely my fave but all of them get my heart going! I really would love the patterns!!
Jo Hofinger
So hard to pick just one. Candy cane! Although I’m a sucker for blue and sparkles! —Beverly Vinson
These yarns are gorgeous!!
My favorite yarn is Robin
Hi Christine. Definitely Silent Night. I love it but my brother gets all the blue socks so I will have to love it from afar. As for knee high socks, that might just be the answer to my problem of keeping out the drought round my ankles lol.
Fairy lights is my favourite. I just love wearing the socks I made with them.
Silent night is my favourite, especially as I already have Fairy Lights and Robin 🙂
Wow so hard to choose but I think Silent Night would be my first choice 🙂
Diane Garlick Green
This has made me even more determined to learn to knit. I'm on holiday this week so I try to give it a go.
I love silent night but hadn't realised that it was sparkly so has made me love it a bit more. I feel a yarn order coming on!
Fairy Lights is my favourite. I love wearing the socks I made.
Christine love Silent Night so it is my favourite so different from the other Christmas Yarns. I love the fact that like Fairy Lights the sparkle is soft to the touch. I love WYS sock yarns and it has become my go to sock yarn.
Thanks for the opportunity Christine, my favourite is the new blue Silent Night, it reminds me of our visits to and from Midnight Mass on Christmas Eve. Cold, crisp and hopefully sparkly. Mary Murphy, Tipperary.
Loving all of them. Hollyberry is a favourite for me, and loving the Blitzen and Prancer patterns best.
I like fairy lights. All the patterns and colours are lovely xx love your sock book too x
Fairy lights is my favourite so the new one with sparkle would’ve extra special
Hmm decisions decisions! I think it would have to be silent night.
Michelle Penney in your FB groups xx
Congratulations on such a fabulous collection. Its hard to pick a favourite but I adore the new Silent night colourway. Blue and sparkles. These are a few of my favourite things!
I love the new Silent Night sparkly yarn and would make Christmas socks for ME with it!
My favourite is Robin as I have just finished my first sock in this.
It’s so hard to choose, but I think Silent Night is just my favourite. I’m really looking forward to making some Christmas socks for my daughters, since we probably won’t be able to meet up this year. Nothing says “I love you!” like hand knit socks.
Silent Night is definitely my favourite, but which of the eight grandchildren will receive the socks? That’s the tricky bit!
I have just finished the comet socks in silent night. The pattern works so well with the yarn. I already have fairy lights waiting in the wings. These are beautiful seasonal yarns.
I really love Robin, but I am going to order the Silent Night. Looks lovely!
My favorite color is candy cane.
Thanks for this giveaway.
My hoard of girls love a sparkle and my doc-wearing eldest was just asking about knee highs! Silent Night is my favourite. Ailsa R
Hi Christine – I guess my new favourite is Silent Night. It definitely reminds me of those long winter nights especially up here in the north where we get such dark dark nights. Twinkly stars and blue/black velvet. Stunning. Stay safe. xxx
Quite difficult to choose just one – but I think Silent night is the one which stole my heart 🙂
Morning Christine,
What a lovely post to read while drinking the first cuppa of the day (gotta love that Sunday morning lying in bed feeling!). I think my favourite (although, as many have already said, it is very hard to choose) is still Holly Berry. A close second is the idea of knee high Candy Cane socks – I never thought I’d fancy knee length socks again (like you, it is decades since I have worn a pair!), perhaps with individual toes this time, now there’s a challenge!
Jools41 on Ravelry.
Candy Cane is my favourite, it’s just so Christmassy! I’ve wanted to buy them since they were announced but it seemed a bit extravagant to buy these for myself at the moment. I’d love to win them. 🙏 Thank you Pat Taylor.
Cathy Davidson I would love to do the Signature Sparkle for my husband as a thank you for the coming few weeks, I am going into hospital or a colostomy and we live a wee bit away in the country from the hospital and he will drive in daily just for an hours visiting, I love WYS wool so beautiful to knit with Cxx
Fairy lights is my favorite. I love all these beautiful yarns.
What a fantastic giveaway! Thank you! My favorite of the colorways is silent night but they are all just lovely. Michele Yon
So hard to choose – but in the end 'Silent Night' wins out as it's great for all year round – and I LOVE the sparkle too!
Silent Night. Just Perfect!
Leena Hofmann
Hello Christine, my favourite would be Holly Berry as this was the first yarn I used to knit my first socks using your basic pattern! I love the new colour though and love the fact that it sparkles!
This is so exciting-they all look great and just coming into prime sock wearing in the house time of year!
What a fabulous prize. I always knit my husbands socks in WYS. He has some pairs over 7 years old and still going strong but for me I would love Silent Night. Who doesn’t love a bit of sparkle particularly to brighten up this year? Thanks for the knee high pattern. I have a friend who has to wear splints on her lower legs and these will be ideal to keep her warm in the winter.
I’ve already started knitting a sock with Silent Night as it grabbed me from the window of my local shop and I couldn’t resist. I think it’s my fave, but they are all gorgeous!!
Robin is my favourite.
What a fabulous prize and lovely reading about all your work in producing the patterns. I think Silent Night is my favourite, who doesn't love a bit of sparkle and your pattern suits it so well – Alison Inglis
Silent night sounds amazing can’t wait to try it 👍🏼👍🏼
I like the Fairy Lights colourway, even more so with the sparkle.
These yarns are all so lovely and I’m loving the sparkly ones, but my favourite has to be holly berry with the traditional Christmas colours
Sparkie silent night 💙💙💙💙
I love your Christmas yarns and Silent night is my favourite.
Wow! I love Fairy Lights especially now it has added sparkle.
Hard to choose, but a sparkle one definitely! I think silent night is May favourite. (Helen Solomon)
I'm rather loving the silent night colour. I always go for the blues.
It’s hard to choose from all these lovely yarns but I think Holly Berry just pips the rest to the post for me!
Wow, what beautiful colours but my favourite is definitely Robin! Love the patterns too.
Hi Christine. My favourite is Fairylights, perfect for my sparkly, dancing granddaughter, who actually inspired me to try and knit socks.
I love the robin yarn, I think it’s so gorgeous! And in the Blitzen pattern too, would be so lovely to make as a gift this Christmas 🙂 – Gemma Grose
Silent Night is beautiful, the sparkle makes it stunning!
Hi , all the colours are beautiful , I was gifted Robin last year and enjoy very much knitting it .
My favourite colour is Silent night
My favourite is definately Robin no wait perhaps Holly Berry. Have knitted Robin still not perfect but getting there. Actually must also seek out Silent Night but just at the minute I feel the more rustic tones of both Robin and Holly Berry might just suit my more rustic style of knitting!
I love the idea of the sparkly yarns from WYS this year, Silent Night is my favourite (at the moment!)
Rob is my favourite!
Hi, oh wow they are all so beautiful, but the one that came a nose ahead is Dasher! Xx
What an amazing offer and lush yarns but I think sparkly silent night is my favourite 😊
Blitzen is my favourite. The colour changes are so subtle and distinguished. Will have to get out my dpns again.
I love Silent Night as I tend to go for navy as by base colour
I think my favourite is the new one – Silent Night. I really like the sparkles
Oh my word; you have been busy; what lovely patterns. I think that I like Silent Night best although they are all fab to be honest.
Silent night calls to me but my youngest son is desperate for a pair of socks in 'twinkly fairy lights'.
Silent Night – so beautiful
Anne Northernlass on your FB page
Hi – My favourite is the Candy Cane as for me it brings together the traditional colours of Christmas.Loving all the sock patterns.
Wow what a difficult decision fairy lights or holly berry hmmmm think it's fairy lights by a sparkle
I just love Robin and the yarns are just lovely to knit with 🙂
I love the silent night colourway, subtle and sparkley!
I think my favourite is candy cane because it is so true to its name and has a vintage feel to it
Silent Night is gorgeous. Blue and sparkles for the win.
I love Fairy Lights. So many sock patterns to keep me busy during the winter nights. Thank you. Anne Rowe
Such brilliant timing!! Right in the middle of knitting up my first pair of socks – I was encouraged by your completely infectious positive vibes about sock making! I usually crochet but thought I would give it a try and am loving taking on the challenge of knitting again and using a fixed circular needle for the first time!
I love the new SILENT NIGHT colours, a bit of sparkle always goes down a treat 🙂 Rachel
I love the fairy light with the added sparkle!
oooh! I love them all but since this would be my first, I'm really loving HOlly Berry!!!
I love the fairy lights yarn!
It's difficult to choose just one but I do like the Silent Night Yarn. Thanks for such a great giveaway
Love them all but it has to be Robin as I have all WYS Bird Collection
Robin is my absolute favourite and I have knitted several pairs in it – but I am currently knitting Silent Night (no pattern came with that when I bought it a month or so ago!). I love it but Robin it is all the way for me!!
Robin is my absolute favourite ♥️ xx Mandy Mogg
My favourite is Silent Night. What an awesome giveaway
They are all lovely. It’s difficult to choose, but I would have to say Holly Berry. X
I like silent night the best but have bought a few of them to make presents for friends for Christmas. I now have to decide which one will suit which person the best! Happy knitting 🧶 😀
They all look lovely, but Dancer is my favourite!
I have knitted the holly berry for myself and hubby has the fairy lights without sparkle lol! I am in the middle of knitting the robin socks for my son. But I can't wait to knit the Silent night socks. I love blue and who doesn't love a bit of sparkle too!
I like the silent night colourway best
Silent night is definitely my favourite
I wasn't aware of the WYS Christmas yarn. These wools are all lovely but my favourite is Silent Night. It would look good with my jeans.
Holly Berry is my favourite and love the idea of longer socks
Ooooh. The sparkly Silent Night is calling to me. It reminds me of a picture in one of my Christmas albums from many, many years ago! You've certainly been busy over the spring and summer. xxx
I love the Silent Night colorway the best. My Christmas decorations are all blue and silver with lots of sparklies!
Hello, I think my favourite is going to be Silent Night, the first yarn from WYS with sparkle.
I know my sister will love them. Thank you Christine for some lovely new designs. you always come
up trumps. Elaine, not Robert.
I really love the Silent Night – so beautiful!
I love all the yarns, but Holly Berry is my favourite. The patterns look great!
I love all the Christmas yarns, so hard to choose. I think Holly Berry feels the most Christmasy though! You have done a wonderful job of knitting and designing all those socks!
Silent Night is my favourite ☺ can't beat sparkly feet
Dawn Aizlewood
THat´s a difficult question. Holly Berry and Candy Cane are my favorites up to now. But I think Silent Night could be my favorite for this year!
Candy Cane is my favorite. Karen Jones
The Silent Night colour way is my fa purity because it just reminds me a dark night with stars sparkling-also blue is my favourite colour! What a super giveaway this is Christine. Thank you x
Hubby was only saying a longer sock would be good whilst he's gardening in the cooler months.
I love robin. Our local hospice has the saying 'when robins appear, a loved one is near'
Very generous giveaway, thank you Christine and WYS
Hello, These are absolutely scrumptious colours they just make my fingers itch to want to get knitting with them. I absolutely love the Silent Night. Reminds me of our Canadian winter forest out the back from me. All shades of blues and silver in the soft drifting snow. Mind you Blitzen/ Robin comes a close second. Thank you for this wonderful opportunity to play with patterns on this lovely yarn. Lynne Norman Canada
We have to choose a favourite!!!!??
Ok I'll go for Silent Night as it's new and different, but it was difficult. ..
Dancer looks great. Beautiful socks for Christmas
Brilliant give away, Love the silent night colourway with the added sparkle.
Good luck everyone xx
Ooh its a hard choice but silent night is my favourite and lovung the knee highs
I would love to knit with Candy Cane.
Vanessa
They're all gorgeous! Currently looking at my hubby wearing his robin socks, he just about lives in them!
What a fabulous giveaway! I love all the colors and patterns. If pressed I think my favorite is Fairy Lights – the name conjures up a magical, snowy night with lots of fun and sparkles!
Silent night because it's so different the others.I can see this as a cowl or a scarf as well as socks.I saw this in a new local yarn store but resisted purchasing as mywrist is still in a cast and knitting is not allowed, so frustrating!
My favourite is Fairy Lights and I'd have to knit Dancer with it – a consoling reminder of my various dance classes that I'm missing.
I love Silent Night – who doesn’t love sparkle?
They are all beautiful but I think the best one is Candy Cane. Elizabeth Brown
Wow, what a fabulous prize! I love Christmas and sweets, so my favourite is Candy Cane.🙂
It’s close but Fairy Lights is my favourite
They are all lovely, but I think my favourite is Robin. WYS yarn is always a pleasure to knit with. Great patterns too, Christine! Thank you for introducing me to the world of socks, from Louise x
I'm loving knitting with Silent Night but then I can't wait to get started on Fairy lights either, it's a sock giving Xmas here this year.
I love the candy cane. Can add a sparkle on my own or even beads
Fairy Lights with sparkle is my favourite followed by Silent Night. You can never have too much sparkle.
I'm currently knitting with Candy Cane but I love them all, it was very hard to choose 🙂
I love the Silent Night and I am hoping my local yarn store might still have it. Thanks!
Love the silent night colourway lovely and sparkley
I really love the sparkly Fairy Lights – so Christmassy!
Oh goodness Fairy Lights please as my daughters love Fairies thank you
Hi I think it's this years colour I do love some sparkle and what a great giveaway xx
All of these are stunning but my favourite is the sparkly Silent Night. Those colours and the sparkle say Christmas to me.
Alison Loryman
I must choose Silent Night Comet), the beautiful blue because blue is my absolute favorite color in all the world. Bertha Mallard ([email protected])
I love Dancer, hope to win and then I can make my first ever socks x
Candy Cane because it is the colours of Christmas, and completely different from my usual choice of sock yarn colours.
Another giveaway is wonderful. I love the Silent Night Comet. Blue is my favorite color and the socks you made with it are glorious. Beverly Collins [email protected]
I adore the fairy lights but I have to say the best is silent night, my mum liked blue and I spent my childhood dressed in variations of blue, so of course refused to buy blue for my self for decades, but came back to it in my late 30's and my mum saw me on blue again before we lost her, I find in the current climate blue is very calming and I dress in blue for work <3 So silent night for more than the amazing sock colours.
All of them are lovely but my favourite one is Robin…
I love all of them, but Candy Cane is my favorite. Kathy Britton
Silent Night is lovely, thank you Christine. Julie Bailey
I love fairy lights and now with sparkle wow 🤩
Candy Cane is my favorite. Classic Christmas colors.
Definitely Dancer ,perfect christmas colours !
I adore Silent Night. It truly makes me think of walking to midnight mass in the still darkness with the snow gli ting just a bit from the streetlights.
Hi Christine: My favourite is Robin. I cant seem to get it in Canada where I am as it is all sold out. I will try to win it instead. Thank you.
Silent Night – looks peaceful & calm. Perfect for Christmas! Margaret Jeffrey
Had to silent night..a girl always needs sparkle and not just for Christmas
Yes!
You are a trusted friend , when it comes to a sock!
Well done on your honour,
Hugs WAHx
I love the Holly Berry
They're all lovely, but I can definitely see myself wearing a Silent Night pair. Eileen Burke
Ooh they're all so lovely! I have never knitted socks before, but I think I could have a go at Holly Berry ��if I was a winner!
Silent Night is my favourite but they're all beautiful!
Sparkle? Blue? A perfect combo in my world so it has to be Silent Night 💙
Silent Night is my favourite! Really excited to see the pattern for knee high socks as well!
Silent Night is my new favourite. Love the colourway as it is, but with sparkles! Extra special 🙂
I love, love, love the Robin 💟 Beautiful colours and my late mums favourite bird x
Wow! They're all fabulous. My favourite would have to be the sparkly Silent Night- gorgeous!
gosh it's so difficult to select a favourite, they are all winners… but I'll go with Robin as I love the colours. this book and the sparkle yarn will definitely be on my Christmas list.
This is an amazing offer!! I absolutely love the silent night yarn and pattern. My name is Jane Whannel and I've never knitted a pair of socks in my life but this would be a fantastic way to start. Thank you for taking the time to read and publish my comment. Good luck everyone
I love the fairy lights sparkle, perfect for Christmas knitting!
My favourite yarn ist Silent Night. Ruth from Austria
Fairy lights is my favourite…but it's hard to choose!
They're all beautiful but Christmas just wouldn't be Christmas without a little robin on a wintery branch – Julie Harrison x
Ooh candy cane is my favourite, would love to try your pattern 🙂
Great Post! I need to get a move on with my Christmas knitting. My favourite yarn is 'Robin' – such lovely colours.
My favourite is robin, who doesn't love to see a little robin searching for bugs when you're out in the garden doing a spot of weeding. They always brighten a dull day.
Hi! Silent Night is my favorite yarn. Thanks for this giveaway and blessings to you!
Candy Cane is my favourite – Jude
These are gorgeous, and tarns I’ve not used for socks (yet, that is). Pranced is a winner for me, stripes and cables delicately mixed. You’d be prancing with pride with these on your feet 😀
They're all beautiful, but Silent Night just makes me smile and brings back many memories of family Christmases, and my kids singing Silent night decorating the tree. :o)
I really like Silent Night – it looks just like a winter night, all sparkly!
Just love them all, but Silent Night will be the first one I make a start on. Thanks so much for all your hard work in helping to make this brilliant book of Christmas socks available
Oh wow, that blue and silver is so beautiful! Definitely Silent Night is my favourite!
i love them all, i think candy cane is my favorite, Amanda Izzard
I Would love to win Comet please
My favourite is Holly Berry – I used it for one of the first pairs of socks I knitted and now I'm hooked! Those socks were a gift for a friend who has been particularly supportive in these uncertain times. I've morphed from novice knitter to prolific sock producer in a matter of months, thanks to discovering Sockalong, for which I will be eternally grateful. Sylvia Turner.
They are all gorgeous, but Silent Night has to be my favourite – I love all blues! 🙂
Fairy Lights is my absolute favourite. The colours remind me of fairy light colours in the sixties when I was growing up!
It has been a long time since I knitted socks and I am enjoying your basic sock pattern and my small circular needles. I hope to treat myself to a ball of WYS Christmas sock yarn for Christmas. I love the sparkly Fairy Lights.
These are all so lovely, think my favourite is Silent night! Thank you 😊
Yay, I found the comments section! 😄 Silent Night is my favourite but it’s a close call as they are all beautiful.
I also particularly like your Dancer pattern with the unusual zigzag pattern.
If I won my favourite is the Robin colourway thank you Vanessa Peters
Holly Berry is my favourite, but am looking forward to trying Silent night.
They're all stunning but I do love Robin the most because they're such cheeky little birds (and I'm really missing the one that lived outside my office window.)
I absolutely love Fairy Lights – now with much-needed added sparkle! Thank you so much, Christine, for giving me the confidence to knit socks. I rarely knit anything else these day! Jennifer C
My favourite is the Silent Night, absolutely beautiful! It makes me think of my Nan and walks after dark to enjoy christmas lights with her ❤
What a decision…Silent Night… I think…oh dear, it's hard!
Wow-what a faboulus giveaway- Thank you!!
I always go for blues, but the Robin is really pretty!
Agneta H
My favourite colour way is Silent Night, but I also keep thinking I should get hold of Holly Berry as well.
Heather M
Silent Night is my favorite. Twinkly stars on a beautiful clear winter night. Marcy
Silent Night is my favourite – I love the shades of blue and the different stripe pattern!