SM4

This will be the last post here on the Sock Madness Blog.  Hillary and I have mixed emotions about letting this go but we know the time is right and so, we give you, a word from your new Sock Madness Coordinators . . .

As many of you already know, Sock Madness will continue with SM4 in March 2010. There will be some changes, one of those being that Julie and I have decided not to carry on with the sock madness blog. We are going to continue to use the sockmadnessatgmaildotcom addy. All information about SM4 will be available in the Sock Madness Forever group on ravelry. If you have yet to join ravelry, this is the time to join if you are interested in keeping up with SM news. To join ravelry go to Ravelry.  A direct link to the Ravelry Sock Madness Forever group is http://www.ravelry.com/groups/sock-madness-forever

Julie and Tricia(Julie and zemy on ravelry) are your new organizers for SM. Julie entered the SM fray as a competitor in SM2 after following the blog of Carole, one of SM’s most recent organizers, who was a competitor in SM1. For SM3 Julie submitted the design Fire on the Mountain, which was the 6th round pattern. Julie also did an amazing amount of test knitting this year and was the photographer for many of those cunning teaser shots of various designs. I have submitted a design to sock madness all 3 years. For SM1 Painted Madness was the 3rd round pattern, for SM2 Odds ‘n Sods was the 7th round pattern and for SM3 Tokena was the 2nd round pattern.

Julie and I met late last year when she test knit my design submission Tokena.for SM3. Julie and I started to chat as she test knit Tokena and then when SM3 started, we chatted on ravelry more and more. We have talked about SM, socks and just generally got to know one another. One thing was very clear to both of us, we are quite passionate about SM. When Carole and Hillary made the decision to step down, there was not much question that Julie and I were ready to step up and continue the madness. The next big thing to happen will be a call for design submissions for SM4. So, please join us over on ravelry as we continue the madness.

Julie and Tricia