Tough Love Sock
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80% easy-care merino wool, 20% nylon
425 yards / 388 m per 4 oz / 115 g skein
A perfect blend of warmth and strength to make a hardwearing sock yarn that can stand up to your affection and abuse. Tough Love Sock is our best-selling yarn and knits up beautifully into fine-gauge sweaters, small shawls, as well as socks! This 3-ply yarn is so versatile, knit it firmly for hard wearing socks, knit it loosely for drapey shawls, or knit it doubled for a great worsted-weight substitute.
Suggested gauge for sock knitting: US 0-1 (2-2.25mm) | 8 sts / 1" (~32 sts / 10 cm)
You can also find smaller yardages of this same yarn base:
Individual Micro-Skeins: 52 yards / 47 m
Individual Mini-Skeins: 105 yards / 96 m
Or, explore Tough Love Sock in a curated palette of mini-skeins:
Party of Five Mini-Skein Set: 525 yards / 480 m
Hexa Hue Mini-Skein Set: 630 yards / 576 m
Mini Colour Fade Mini-Skein Set: 630 yards / 576 m
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Tough Love Sock Project Ideas
Mini-Skeins, Micro-Skeins & Tough Love Sock Sets
As a color obsessed knitter, I adore the huge range of colors and all the new colors of Tough Love Sock. By now I have a stash of about 18 colors. I've done a Fair Isle vest using 12 colors and it is beautiful and won first prize in the colorways section of a local knitters' guild contest. The only drawback is that since it is superwash, the steeking was hard to do correctly and I had to cover the fold over edging with bias tape to ensure that it would not shred. If I did not have such a big stash, I would switch to Trifecta Fine so that it could felt, but I just have too much!
Searched for the perfect colour for my husband's socks, and it had to be "perfect team colours" I was instructed. With all the colour selection available at sweet georgia I not only found that one elusive colour but the other two as well. So pleased with this purchase, and coming back for more, much more.... 😉
Love the color and quality.
It is lovely wool and I am happily knitting up. Thank you.
I've used Tough Love sock for as long as I can remember. I don't just use it for socks, but for shawls, cowls, wraps etc too. I use my 2.5 mm flexi flips when working with this wool. The dyes are luscious. A joy for the hands to work with. Works well with cable too. My go-to wool. Online shopping with sweetgeorgia is always without a hitch. Questions are answered promptly too.



































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































