This is How, I wash our socks, wash our socks, wash our socks!

Socks in our sock bag from this week,  that I have brought down to the laundry room to wash.

My socks are washed inside out because I have a skin condition on my feet. All our Opal socks are washed in warm  to hot water with liquid detergent.

I put all the socks in a pail once washed.  Then I prepare my wash sink with warm water to rinse them.

This is my second batch of socks!  These ones are of different more delicate yarns like Shelridge, Good Karma, Alisons, Brown Sheep and Lisa Socks. This batch is being washed in Cold water and Cold water rinse too.  We wear all kinds of yarns as you can see. But we mainly just sell OPAL and (Shelridge which is a Canadian Yarn), to our customers.

All of our this weeks socks are washed and rinsed, all in my handy-dandy pail to carry them from the laundry room to our entrance room where the wood fire is burning nicely today!

Socks laying flat on towels by the fire!  Nice and cozy warm. Please note normally they are not this close to the wood fire.  It was just easier to take the blog pic so you could see the wood stove also.  You can notice by the last towel of socks drying, which are mine, that I seemed to have a purple palette going for wear this week.

Look! Our sock bag is all empty now and will soon be awaiting the next week's sock collection.

A Chilly-Willy Morn in NS

It's a chilly- willy morning here in Nova Scotia today.  The wood stove is burning and MrB is cranking away.  Me, MsB is semi-lazy this morning.  It is a good morning though since the wood stove is on, to actually wash all the socks we wore this week.  I hand wash them and then lay them by the fire flat on a towel to dry.  When I get up in the morning I tend to grab the pair of socks laying on the floor first thing in the morning and that is what I did this morning. Now later in the day I got to my two small sock drawers full of socks to choose which ones will be the lucky chosen ones for today.
Look which ones will I pick? 

It was interesting that earlier today I was talking to a friend of mine in Texas.  She asked me if it was chilly here today and I replied yes.  Then to find out it was actually cooler there in Texas. They refer to us, as the NORTH, here in Nova Scotia.  It is 5C here or 41F it was 3C there in Texas.  That actually puts a smile on my face!  Well, my feet are happy for today, and they are getting Hugs from Socks Made On 88. 

If you are any of our market customers reading this entry, we are not at the market today, but we will be there next week!!  And remember to possibly look for us set up in the Lower Courtyard but when I know where we are I will try and remember to post the location here and over at our facebook page too.  Happy Saturday to All near and far!

Which sock pair should I wear today?

Oh!  I think I will pick these ones!

See they do go well with my leisure pants/jammies as it just may be a Jammie-day!