Round 3 Specs

Sorry to keep you all needlessly in suspense.  It certainly wasn’t intentional.  It turns out that Emeraldcutie submitted her email exactly per the instructions and, somehow the X failed to get posted although we did reply to the email. Our best guess would be that WordPress ate it.  Stuff happens but I suppose that the moral of this story is that you should always make sure that your completed socks are properly noted. 

 Moving right along to the next socks.  They will be the laceweight socks and the specs are:

 US 2 / 2.75mm needles

35 stitches/53 rounds over 4 inches in (s1, k3) slip-stitch pattern worked in the round on 2.75mm

needles

 Knit Picks Shadow [100% merino wool; laceweight; 400 yd per 50 gram hank]

Colors:

A – Campfire 23659 (heathered orange), 1 hank;

B – Sunset 23661 (heathered red), 1 hank;

OR

2 colors of any lace weight yarn, at least 400 yards of each

 As I mentioned the other day, I checked my leftover Tess the other day and these were the results. Each skein of Tess is about 50g when full. Weighing the 2 leftover balls I found that one had about 16g, the other 20g.

 This sock will not be super difficult – the pattern repeats are easy to remember once you get going.  The tough thing is maintaining the 2 strand pairings.  It gets especially tricky when you factor in the slipped stitches and there are a lot of slipped stitches.

 The number for this round will be 12 per division and the pattern will be sent out on Thursday between 8pm and midnight my time.  It ought to allow for good weekend knitting for all.

 For those of you who are feeling creative, the deadline for artsy (or just plain weird) shots will be 6pn Thursday and the voting will open on Friday.  As far as what you can submit for the creative shots – whatever you want.  Just keep it clean.  If you have a great idea for showing of your half completed socks then feel free.  The only requirement is that the pattern of the round, Reversai, should be featured. 

 More on the creative stuff tomorrow.