Sock Madness

Despite all of the pattern 5 controversy, 12 brave knitters perservered and the round is complete. 

The voting for your favorite Slippin’ Stripin’ Socks also ended yeaterday and it’s a TIE!  Check that out.  you all have spoken and Slip of the Cat and Slippery Stripe-y Sock Slide each got 34% of the vote although they were one vote apart.  Thankfully we have enough prizes for both and for MKSmiles who was the first finisher in round 3 as well as round 2.  Whew!

To those of you who are still working on your Something’s Shady or Hippy Ripply Retro Socks, you still have a bit of time to let your creative juices flow.  We’ll try to post the Something’s Shady poll on Monday but we’d love it if you could post them by Thursday night.  It would be such fun if Carole and I could look at them together for a change since she’s going to be visiting this weekend. We’ll be going to Maryland Sheep & Wool this Saturday with Felicia.  If you see us I’ll probably be the one who looks like she’d like to run and hide.

Since we have big plans this weekend and we hope that you do too, we’ll be releasing the optional pattern on Thursday so that we won’t have to be constantly posting updates and those who want to can take a break.  For those of you who are up for it, the optional pattern specs are:

400 yards fingering weight – Cherry Tree Hill Supersock US size 2 (3.0 mm) No gauge info at this moment but I’ll post it as soon as I can.

The deal is this - take your time, knit, don’t knit - whatever you’d like.  Next Thursday we’ll choose 2 or 3 finished pairs of these socks at random and award prizes.  Simple!

Then, next Friday we’ll release pattern 6 and I’m sure that you’ll love it.  Really!  It’s fab!  I’d plan on seeing  the specs for that one on Monday. 

There’s about am hour and half before the poll for Round 2 closes so if you haven’t voted yet - hurry up!

It’s just the craziest thing because i feel like I’m still wrapping up Round 2 and yet Round 3 is already done.  Yikes!  We’ve got a bit of catching up to do.

It sounds like you all enjoyed this pattern.  I did too.  Is it me or did this round seem to be much more about the colors?  There were socks where the differences between the stripes was barely noticeable and others where the 2 combined so well that they really did read as a third color.  There are a few people who even took it one further step and added a third color of yarn for additional variation.  I initially bought 3 colors to combine and I hope to go back and try it at some point.