Not a sock winner

First I want to thank everyone who voted for my socks.  Thank you! Thank you!

The winners have been announced and sadly I am not one of them.

Click on over to Simply Sock Yarn Company Blog to see the winning socks.

There were some great socks knitted and entered. I had fun coming up with the striping sequence and knitting the stripe socks. The mosaic socks were a new challenge since I had never tried it before.

So I may not be a sock contest winner but I'm still a winner because I have a great pair of striped socks to wear! (My daughter took the mosaic ones so she is a winner of the mosaic socks, lol)

Thank you all again for your support and votes!

SOCK VOTING!! Please vote

The Simply Sock Yarn Company Summer of Color Contest Sock Voting Has Begun!
(instert shameless plug here)

The wait is over. At least the waiting for the pictures to be posted.  Now the voting begins. (ends Aug 6th)
 
PLEASE go to Simply Sock Yarn Company Summer of Color Contest page and check out all the great socks enter into the contest. Then cast a vote (hopefully for mine!!!!!)  I am particularly fond of my Walk Across Texas stripe socks.  The striping sequence is my name.

So once you've checked out the socks, you must email your vote to allison@simplysockyarn.com. The subject would be VOTE and the body of the email would be Socks 2 (just an example, hehehehe). And she does say only one vote per person (she's checking IP addresses). So, tell all your friends. Tell your friends to tell their friends. And even they can tell their friends.  GO VOTE!!

More pictures and details can be found here and here











And more on the mosaic socks here and here.

(can you tell I'm excited?! I've been jumping around shouting, yay! it's time to tell everyone to vote!!!!!)

So what are you waiting for?!     GO VOTE

A-Maze-ing (socks)

Ta da!

I did manage to get the mosaic socks finished in time to submit for the Summer of Color contest!!!

I have never knitted a mosaic anything. Being me... I went to library and checked out knitting books about mosaic knitting. The charts are read different from the usual chart reading. The little squares on the side tell you what stitches are knitted leaving the black squares which are slipped. or is it vice versa?! It was definitely a challenge! I thought, hmmm.... maybe I won't knit mosaic socks for the contest. But then I had this lovely yarn, which is a dream to knit with, I had to give it a try.

So I dug through my sock books and found the pattern "Maze" in Charlene Schurch's Sensational Knitted Socks. It was a good thing she had the directions written out along with the chart. I did find it easier to understand the written direction than trying to figure out the chart!

I made a couple of changes: I did a solid foot with a four round stripe near the toe instead of continuing the maze pattern down the instep. I also did a regular slip-stitched heel flap instead of the garter stitched edged heel flap.


Yarn used was Simply Sock Yarn Company Solid Socks in Blue Violet and Periwinkle. I bought two of each but only used 13 grams from one hank of Periwinkle and 66 grams of the Blue Violet. Enough yarn left to make something else! (socks, maybe??)

I used US 1/2.25mm dpns (my 9" circulars were in use on one of the other 5 pairs of socks I have in progress)

As soon as Allison at Simply Sock Yarn Company has the sock pictures posted for voting, I'll let you know.

It will be hard to decide which socks I like best, the mosaic ones or the striped ones.

You can find more pictures and information here on my Ravelry page.

Will I make another pair of mosaic socks?   maybe.

But I think I like knitting cables the best!

Missed it...

...missed the WIP Wednesday. I was so busy knitting (well between all the visiting, meetings, cooking, and cleaning) I missed posting my wip.

First let me direct your attention to a "Mini Sock Refresher" I participated in on Monday at SuKnitWitty's.
Su had FSS (First Sock Syndrome). She managed to not catch SSS (Second Sock Syndrome) by casting on for the second sock before the first one was finished. But alas, FSS hit! And then, family stuff came up, quilting stuff came up, some work came up, so the poor socks were put in time out.

On Monday, Su's good friend came to visit. Her friend asked if I could come over too. (Her ulterior motive was to have me help her with her sock. Her second sock). When Su saw her friend's sock, she was once again excited inspired about knitting socks. But since her socks had been in time out, she couldn't remember what to do next. So she agreed it would be wonderful if I could come over and then they both could pick my brain about knitting socks.

So I took one of the 5 socks (yes, I back up to 5 again)  on over to SuKnitWitty's house and we had a Mini Sock Refresher. I helped her friend with the heel, heel turn, and gusset. And I helped Su figure out where she was (in her house of course!! oh, she meant with her knitting). So we all had an enjoyable afternoon working on socks.

I did finish my first sock, "A-Maze-ing" yesterday morning (instead of blogging).

 IF I manage to get the second one finished before next Wednesday, I'll submit them for the Summer of Color Sock Contest at Simply Sock Yarn Company.

But not to be left out...

...I did work on the foot of the Welcome to Hogwarts sock last night (yes, instead of blogging).

p.s. To SuKnitWitty, What sock yarn?! (hehehehahahaheheheh)
Oh, you mean the sock yarn you brought over to my house for me to store with my sock yarn. I'm sure we can work it out. :-)

A Contest!!

Check it out... Simply Sock Yarn Company (SSYC) is having a contest... with BIG PRIZES!!!

Now is your chance to knit up those stripey socks. Just use SSYC solid sock yarn and your imagination to create a colorful stripey sock. Striped socks not your "thing"?! Not to worry... you can knit up a pair of mosaic or fairisle socks (again using SSYC solid sock yarn). The color combinations are endless!!

There are three chances to win! The Striped Sock category, the Mosaic/Fairisle Sock category, and the Best in Show (all the pictures of the submitted socks to be voted on by us... the one with the most votes win!! the grand prize!!!)

So look at and order your yarn here, get your needles ready and go! You have until the end of June to submit your photos via email (or if you can't email them, alternate instructions are listed on SSYC blog)

So what are you waiting for? Check out SSYC blog for more details and to see the BIG PRIZES!!