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.
I bought my first pair of mismatched socks from Marianne at Paradise City Arts Festival in Northampton, MA many years ago. Each year I would buy another few pairs for me and my kids. Today, when you open up my sock drawer, you get a burst of color and since I don’t drink coffee, it is a great way to wake myself up. I don’t even bother to put sets together, I just grab two socks and go. I LOVE these socks!
Thank you sock people.
I saw your socks on a girlfriend last week and had to buy some for myself. I bought 3 pairs from Tuscan Gardens here in Petaluma, CA. I LOVE them!! I only wear wild socks!
Thank you!