Prairies & Lakes

Texas Creek Collection

Region: Prairies & Lakes

Dk:  100% Superwash Bluefaced Leicester Wool - 246 yds/100 gr - 4 ply

Sock: 80% Superwash British Bluefaced Leicester Wool; 20% Nylon - Fingering - 399 yds per 100 gr - 2 ply 

The Prairies and Lakes region is in north central and central Texas. This area is a transition between the plains of the West Texas Panhandle and the Pineywoods of East Texas. Patches of woodland running in a north and south direction are sprinkled throughout this grassland prairie. The land is gently rolling to hilly. This region is sometimes called “cross timbers” because these patches of treed areas cross strips of prairie grassland.

The soil here is rich, fertile, and black. Part of this region is called Blackland Prairie because of this. Once, tall prairie grasses grew all across this region but settlers built farms and produce crops on it now. Conservation biologists are trying to restore some of the prairies that wildlife depend upon for survival.