Jun 10, 2026

Two Bags, Six Yarns, Endless Possibilities: The 2026 TWT Sock Bags Are Here!

Every year, we pour copious amounts of love into our Sock Bags, a specially selected collection of 300 grams of versatile sock yarns and other treasures you won't want to miss! We hunt down yarns that tell a story, source extras that you'll actually use and make sure the whole thing feels like a gift worth unwrapping slowly.

There is an enormous world of sock yarn out there, and part of our job is helping you find the best of it. The Sock Bag started as a way to do exactly that: to gather yarns from producers we genuinely believe in, from corners of the world with real fiber stories to tell, and put them somewhere you'd actually find them. Your own personal guided yarn tour.

Both bags are timed to arrive just as the Sock Sprint gets underway, TWT's beloved sock knit-along that gives you every excuse to cast on immediately. More details on this year's Sprint are coming soon, but if you've been waiting for a reason to start a new pair, consider this your starting bell!

Every TWT Sock Bag has a personality, and this year that personality has a name. Two of them, actually!

Say hello to Wooliam the sheep and Sockrates the cat, the official mascots of the 2026 sock season and the stars of our most anticipated bag yet! Each one fronts their own 300-gram collection of handpicked sock yarns.

At $99.95 with free US shipping, these bags are an exceptional value, and once you see what's tucked inside, you'll understand exactly why we're so excited! The bags go live June 12th. Read on to meet them properly.

Get Your Sock Bag on June 12

The Sock Bags Themselves

Before we talk yarn, we need to talk about the bags.

This year's design was created entirely in-house by TWT's own Rob, and it's genuinely one of our favorites: a charming original illustration featuring Wooliam the sheep and Sockrates the cat, the official mascots of the 2026 sock season. Rob has a knack for capturing personality in a drawing, and these two have it in spades.

The bags are made by Enviro-Tote, a woman-owned, eco-conscious company right here in New Hampshire. Sturdy, reusable, big enough to hold a project in progress, and gusseted to help it stand upright, this is a bag you'll actually reach for.

Purple for Wooliam. Green for Sockrates.

Wooliam's Sock Bag: What's Inside

Wooliam knows his fleece. His picks are rooted in Scandinavian and British wool heritage, yarns with provenance, personality, and durability that only gets better with age. Expect heritage yarns with serious sock credentials and a rustic hand that no superwash treatment could replicate.

Rauma Gammelserie

(2 × 50g, Light Fingering, 100% Norwegian Wool)

Rauma has been spinning yarn in Stavanger, Norway since 1927, which means nearly a century of hard-won knowledge about what makes a sock last. Gammelserie, which translates roughly to "old series," is one of their most traditional weights: a high-twist, nylon-free wool spun from Norwegian fleece for socks that wear beautifully and age even better. No superwash treatment here, this is wool behaving exactly as nature intended, with a rustic hand that softens with washing and use. Two balls land in Wooliam's bag, giving you plenty for a solid pair.

Tukuwool Sock

(100g, Sport Weight, 80% Finnish Wool / 20% Biodegradable Polyamide)

Finland takes its wool seriously, and Tukuwool is a fine example of why. Spun from Finnish Finnsheep and Finnsheep-Texel crossbreeds, a breed prized for its fine, characterful fleece, Tukuwool Sock is raised, spun, and dyed entirely within Finland, start to finish. The woolen-spun construction gives it an airy, lofty quality that makes for socks that feel surprisingly light on the foot. The biodegradable polyamide adds durability without compromising the yarn's natural integrity: unlike conventional synthetics, it breaks down in landfill conditions in roughly five years. It's the kind of thoughtful spec decision that feels right for a yarn this honest.

West Yorkshire Spinners Signature 4ply — Butterflies Collection

(100g, Fingering Weight, 40% Wool / 35% Bluefaced Leicester / 25% Nylon)

West Yorkshire Spinners has been producing yarn in the Bradford heartland of British wool country for decades, and their Signature 4ply has become a go-to for sock knitters who want a yarn that pulls double duty. The Bluefaced Leicester content, a British longwool breed with an exceptionally fine, lustrous fleece, gives this yarn its silky hand and excellent stitch definition. The Butterflies collection brings bold self-striping colorways to the mix: expect sweeping color changes that move through your stitches unpredictably and keep things exciting from cast-on to bind-off. Lovely for socks, but equally suited to shawls and accessories.

Sockrates' Sock Bag: What's Inside

Sockrates didn't choose the colorful life, the colorful life chose him. His picks lean vivid, playful, and a little unpredictable, but don't let the colors fool you! Sockrates' picks have real sock-making mettle: century-old Scandinavian and German craft traditions, and yarns that earn their place in any serious knitter's basket.

Sandnes Garn Sisu

(2 × 50g, Fingering Weight, 80% Wool / 20% Nylon/Polyamide)

Sandnes Garn has been making yarn in Norway since 1894, predating Norwegian independence by more than a decade. Sisu is one of their most enduring yarns, and the name is borrowed from Finnish: a concept that doesn't translate neatly into English, but sits somewhere between grit, resilience, and quiet tenacity. It suits the yarn well. Smooth, superwash-treated, and knit-friendly, Sisu shows off textured stitch patterns with crisp definition while shrugging off the demands of everyday wear. Two balls arrive in Sockrates' bag, reliable and ready for action.

Zauberball Crazy

(100g, Fingering Weight, 75% Superwash Wool / 25% Biodegradable Polyamide)

Schoppel-Wolle has been dyeing yarn in Schweinfurt, Germany since 1891, and they've built a devoted following among knitters who love color done with commitment. Zauberball Crazy takes their signature approach, individual strands dyed separately then plied together, to its most playful extreme. The two strands run through entirely different color sequences, so as they twist together the combinations are unpredictable, vivid, and completely unrepeatable. Every skein is its own thing. The result is a self-striping yarn that never quite does what you expect, which is exactly the point. Schoppel's biodegradable polyamide breaks down in landfill conditions in approximately five years, a meaningful detail for a company with roots stretching back to the nineteenth century.

Arne & Carlos Socks & More 4ply

(100g, Light Fingering Weight, 75% Virgin Wool / 25% Recycled Polyamide)

Few yarns have a backstory as genuinely unexpected as this one. Arne Nerjordet and Carlos Zachrison, the Norwegian-Swedish design duo who've built a global following for their bold, color-saturated approach to Scandinavian knitting, developed Socks & More after a decade of designing and a deliberate leap into creative independence. The palette was inspired by a visit to the Munch Museum in Oslo, where Edvard Munch's raw, emotionally charged use of color sent them in a new direction. From those sketches, Socks & More became a printed-effect yarn, engineered in Transylvania so that each hue falls in exactly the right place to create the finished design in the knitted sock. It's a genuinely international story: Norwegian design sensibility, Swedish-Norwegian authorship, Munch's influence, and Transylvanian craft, all in a 100g ball destined for your sock drawer. The recycled polyamide content adds durability with a lower footprint than virgin nylon.

The Sock Sprint Starter Kit

The 2026 Sock Bags featuring Wooliam and Sockrates

Both bags are timed to arrive just as the Sock Sprint gets underway, TWT's beloved sock knit-along that gives you every excuse to cast on immediately. More details on this year's Sprint are coming soon, but if you've been waiting for a reason to start a new pair, consider this your starting bell!