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Hobbii yarn has been pushing ads into my Facebook feed for a couple of years, but I have always hesitated to try it. How could yarn this cheap possibly be any good? Well, I’ve seen a few lovely projects made with Hobbii yarn pop up in my knitting groups so I finally clicked on one of those ads and decided to give it a try.
I was expecting to see a few generic yarn options at Hobbii, but I was mistaken – they have tons to choose from: both their own brand and other more recognizable brands (like Regia’s line, for example).
I was immediately drawn to the Hobbii-brand self-striping sock yarns they were pushing for the holidays. You know I’m sucker for self-striping sock yarn! I bought two balls of their Christmas Sock Wool – one regular and one glitter. It was almost November, so I knew I’d only be able to knit one pair before the holidays… don’t ask me why I bought two! They are both good-sized 459 yd / 100 g balls of a light-fingering weight wool and nylon blend yarn, and I got them for $8 each. They arrived pretty quickly, considering they were coming all the way from Denmark!
I intended to knit my socks out of the non-glitter yarn, but when I inspected it more closely, I realized that the colorway I picked – Dancer – was a little self-patterning and well as self-striping, and that’s not really my jam. The glitter version I picked – Donner – was just solid stripes, so I went with that for my socks.
I’m impressed with how fast I knitted these babies! I cast on 60 stitches and knitted them on US size 2 DPNs and cruised through them. I ended up finishing them up on the same day I put up my Christmas tree. Not bad!
All said, Hobbii makes very good yarn! The color changes between the stripes are clean and I used about 75% of the ball and didn’t encounter any knots or other visible joins. The metallic thread in this yarn is a little thicker than on other glimmer yarns I’ve worked with. I wouldn’t describe the texture as scratchy, per se, but you can definitely feel the difference in softness between the glitter yarn and the regular yarn.
I used the sock surgeon’s afterthought heel method for these socks. It’s my favorite – you knit tubes with toes and then snip out where you want the heel to go after the fact. I like to position my heel right in the middle of a stripe and then start knitting the heel in the same color of the stripe sequence to get the cool bullseye look. You can browse all my socks made with this method here.
yarn details
Hobbii Christmas Sock Wool Glitter in Donner (06) (limited edition)
Fingering Weight
73% wool, 25% nylon, 2% polyester
100 g/ 459 yd ball
Purchased in October 2024
project details
pattern: “Sock Surgeon Afterthought Heel” (YouTube tutorial)
needles: US size 2.0 (2.75 mm), wood dpns
gauge: 14.5 stitches 20 rows = 2 inches in stockinette (blocked)
yarn used: 335 yards (73 grams) (about .75 balls)
finished size: back of heel to tip of toe: 9.75”, top of cuff to bottom of heel: 10”, (diameter – laid flat: ~4”)
duration: October 31 – December 1, 2024
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