Claud bought a Legare Circular Sock Knitting Machine from Angora Valley Fibers. With helpful advice and hints from our friend Barb Wilde, of Rosewood Yarns, he has knitted several pair of socks with varying stages of success. He is persistent, but there are many idiosyncracies in the operator, machine, and fiber, so it's a continuous learning process.

Some of these socks are knitted from 75% wool, 25% polyamide yarn; the others from 60% acrylic, 40% nylon/polyamide Bernat Sox yarn. He is experimenting with my handspun llama yarn, but each change of yarn type presents new challenges (and adjustments of the machine).

Claud knits a white llama yarn sock while Glacier looks on. A matching sock is on the table top. It's toe has not yet been closed with the Kitchener stitch. Glacier's fiber was combined with that of our other white llamas to produce the yarn.