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Marianne Wakerlin, the Socklady is the founder and owner of Sol Mate Socks. The company is named after her mom, Sunny, who taught Marianne how to knit. Marianne continued to knit for the next 40 years, but it wasn’t until she started knitting socks that her real passion was born.
"I found it exhilarating, designing a pair of socks that didn't match and were knit in random patterns with multiple colors. I loved my finished socks!" Within a few years Marianne had knit over one hundred pairs of socks for family and friends, and she decided to turn her hobby into a business. Her colorful and complex patterns are knit in the USA at a family owned knitting mill, hand finished and mismatched.
The company is run from the Socklady’s home in central Vermont, surrounded and inspired by the woods, brook, gardens and hills of the countryside.
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Solmate Socks Sponsors Garrison Keillor and A Prairie Home Companion at the Champlain Valley Fair
We are tickled pink to announce that we are the sponsors for the live recording of A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor at Vermont's Champlain Valley Fair later this summer. We hope that you're able to tune in and listen or come and see the see the show in person at the Fair (we'll be there!). More...
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We're celebrating Earth Day 2008 - Join us!
We like this planet. It is a beautiful and colorful place to live. A lot of our inspiration for the socks and our color combinations comes from the beauty we see every day around us. Taking care of our local and global communities is important to us - which is why we make all our socks here in the US from recycled cotton yarns. Earth Day 2008 is April 22nd and in honor of that we are donating $2 from every order placed through our website April 18 through April 25 to Vital Communities' Farm & Food Program. More...
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Our socks have many colors... but green is the most important one
Spunk, color and a conscience! There are so many reasons to love our mismatched socks. For one, we are incredibly proud to be an American-made product: our yarns are dyed, spun and knit at small, family-owned businesses here in the US. Also, from the very start, our cotton socks have always been knit using recycled cotton yarns. These yarns are recovered from the production of other cotton products (mainly t-shirts), and re-blended with other fibers and spun into yarns for Solmate Socks. More...
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Solmate Socks Makes a TV Appearance on The View!
Do you have a favorite pair of socks? Whoopi Goldberg does and in September of 2007 on ABC's The View Whoopi shared some of her favorite things - including how much she thinks "these are great great great great socks"! More...
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