A product tests giveaway from SOAK! US ONLY

Jacqueline from Soak sent me out some samples and large bottle of one of their limited edition of SOAK to giveaway to one of you felters. Soak™ the stuff you care about most. Keep the fibers you love looking great with Soak. The hat I just knitted (pictured) was felted using one of the samples of Soak that I received. It smells wonderful and you only need a small amount for your felting. You don’t have to be overly concerned about rinsing do to the gentleness of this product. If you would like to give this product a test run and report back to me and Soak how you like it as a felting aid, just type “I’ll try it” in the comment area! This promotion will run from May 13th through May 20th.

Launched in Canada in 2005, Soak enjoyed immediate success with everyone from knitters to quilters to fashion-conscious clothing shoppers. Over the next couple of years, we grew in the knitting and quilting markets in the United States and around the world. In 2007 we launched into the apparel and lingerie markets. Now, Soak can be found in Boutiques and Department Stores (intimate apparel sections) around the World. Our manufacturing is top-notch, and we supply all sizes of retail stores, including some of the world’s most prestigious boutiques.

About Soak

Design team Principal Jacqueline Sava heads up a talented team of designers, knitters, product developers and marketers. The company also partners with an extensive network of like-minded individuals, in order to offer a complete range of product development services.

Soak is a company inspired by Jacq’s Hats, an award-winning knit accessories business. We got started when we developed soak, a product that gave Jacq’s Hats’ customers a great new way to take care of their wool hats, scarves and sweaters.

For years now Berroco has been releasing a tiny set of Christmas ornament knitting patterns, often modeled on human-sized clothes, called Minutia. The ones for this year haven’t come out yet, but somehow I missed last year’s so I wanted to share them, as well as a fun little twist they offered.

The general 2025 Minutia patterns include a circular yoke sweater, a two-color stocking and a ribbed earflap hat. They’re super cute and perfect for using little (or should I say minute?) amounts of yarn left over from other projects. Make them in Christmas colors or whatever you have on hand. Even if you don’t have exactly the same yarn weight, you can still make these cute additions to your holiday decor.

But what really caught my eye while I was on the Berocco site was the Team Colors Minutia, which are actually different patterns so I’m not even sure when they were released, but they are definitely worth talking about.

These patterns include a little raglan sweater with stripes and a stocking cap with contrasting pom pom.

They call for sport weight yarn, but again you could use sock or DK if that’s what you have in the right colors. And here the right colors are important because you’re stitching your team colors.

Or anyone else’s team colors.

I immediately thought that this would be an amazing holiday gift for someone who you never know what to get but who also happens to like sports. Or has gone to a university that has colors.

Another option would be to leave off the stripes and add a number in duplicate stitch if you or the person you’re knitting for has a favorite player. Or stitch a letter or a tiny version of the team logo on the front. There are lots of options!

If you make these, I’d love to hear what you did with them!

[Photo: Berroco]

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