Friday Fill-Ins: Friday Fill-In #70

Friday Fill-Ins: Friday Fill-In #70

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Still waiting

Sadly, I have no photos to post, as I have no socks. I was told they were sent out in September, but have not arrived. An email to my pal about this went unanswered. Pal, if you are out there and sent my socks, please try to trace them, even at this late date. I would hate to think you did all that work for nothing.

TK

Still waiting

Sadly, I have no photos to post, as I have no socks. I was told they were sent out in September, but have not arrived. An email to my pal about this went unanswered. Pal, if you are out there and sent my socks, please try to trace them, even at this late date. I would hate to think you did all that work for nothing.

TK

Sstill waiting

Sadly, I have no photos to post, as I have no socks. I was told they were sent out in September, but have not arrived. An email to my pal about this went unanswered. Pal, if you are out there and sent my socks, please try to trace them, even at this late date. I would hate to think you did all that work for nothing.

TK

Sstill waiting

Sadly, I have no photos to post, as I have no socks. I was told they were sent out in September, but have not arrived. An email to my pal about this went unanswered. Pal, if you are out there and sent my socks, please try to trace them, even at this late date. I would hate to think you did all that work for nothing.

TK

Saviour Socks

Cable socks
Originally uploaded by bianca_b

Hard to photograph sock on your own feet. This pair is designed by me, and sent as saviour socks in Sockapalooza 4

Socks arrived!

Here are my perfect super socks from Munna:
Knitted with Regia 4 ply
a Pattern from CookieA

Thelonius

The fit perfect and the Pattern is fantastic.








My extra stuff:

Munna comes from Munich (see postcard)

She was on "Oktoberfest" this year and bought for me a gingerbread heart.

And the best:
Handdyed sock yarn from Wollmeise:
100 % wool in colour Veilchen (Viola)
150 g hank
100 g / 350 m
this yarn is a dream

Thank you very very much.

I hope there's a new sockapalooza next year.

Savior Socks Sent

Finished the socks for my "bonus" sock pal and sent them off with a little bottle of wool wash last week. She should probably get them today. I wish I could have finished them earlier, but then again, it is too hot for wool socks right now in our part of the country so she couldn't have worn them anyway. I sent her a little "just because" package so she would have something while I knit since she didn't get socks from her first pal.

This is Yarn Pirate club yarn in Calamity and the Inside-Out pattern from the STR club. (Am I a sock club joiner - you bet!)

Savior Socks Away!

Here a really bad picture of the start of the socks for my "bonus" pal. The yarn is Yarn Pirate in the club color "calamity" and this is the first time I've worked with it. It is really soft and the colors are amazing in real life - purple, green, turquoise and cream. I love the way it stripes with the purple and turquoise together and the green and cream together. It is a good thing I'm posting this picture saying they were for a pal or I'd be tempted to keep them for myself! I wanted to do extra nice socks for this pal since her first pal didn't come through. These are going to be "inside out" socks from the BMFA sock club pattern, although I might modify the pattern on the leg. I love the way these socks are fitted and the garter stitch toe and heel!

I almost didn't post this for fear of giving away the "surprise". I'm afraid my pal may figure out these are her socks since there are so many fewer people knitting now. Maybe she'll figure this out and not look on the pligg if she wants to be surprised?

cockleshells

Socks Received (and happily worn!)

My socks arrived in mid-August... just before I went on vacation. So I threw them into my suitcase and headed out. They are wonderful! My sock pal did a great job. They're a cable/lace pattern that I probably wouldn't have chosen for myself, but now that I've worn them, I might do some more like them! I've never been a lace sock wearer... but I think these have changed my mind.

She also sent a great project bag (in use for a new sock project) and a bag of wonderful chocolate (long gone!).


I found Carissa's blog and she mentioned some concerns with the pooling/striping... Not a concern to me - I think the pattern is busy enough that it's less noticeable.

So thank you Carissa over at Chrysalis Knits!
http://www.chrysalisknits.blogspot.com/

Socks Received (and happily worn!)

My socks arrived in mid-August... just before I went on vacation. So I threw them into my suitcase and headed out. They are wonderful! My sock pal did a great job. They're a cable/lace pattern that I probably wouldn't have chosen for myself, but now that I've worn them, I might do some more like them! I've never been a lace sock wearer... but I think these have changed my mind.

She also sent a great project bag (in use for a new sock project) and a bag of wonderful chocolate (long gone!).


I found Carissa's blog and she mentioned some concerns with the pooling/striping... Not a concern to me - I think the pattern is busy enough that it's less noticeable.

So thank you Carissa over at Chrysalis Knits!
http://www.chrysalisknits.blogspot.com/

Sockapalooza 4 Socks from Across the Pond in Somerset

My Sockapalooza Pal Mary did a great job knitting me these socks. They are knit from Koigu KPPM in a pretty lavender/grey mix. She also sent me some beautiful Collinette Jitterbug sock yarn in my favorite shades of turquoise and purple. Along with the fibery goodness is a box of Clotted Cream Fudge from Somerset UK, a postcard showing the beautiful countryside and a lovely note. Well worth the wait.

Sharon (Knittingauntie.blogspot.com)

Sockaplooza 4 from Across the Pond Arrived yesterday

My Sockapalooza Pal Mary did a great job knitting me these socks. They are knit from Koigu KPPM in a pretty lavender/grey mix. She also sent me some beautiful Collinette Jitterbug sock yarn in my favorite shades of turquoise and purple

Missing socks :(

where, oh were, art though socks!!!

If you're my partner, please contact me and let me know you're still out there. I'd like to know that I didn't spend so much time and energy into the socks I made only to get shafted in the end.

:(

LOVE my new socks!

These arrived last week, but I'm behind in posting. :)

Thanks, Nicole, I love them! And they fit wonderfully, too. :)

More pics and details on my blog.

just when i'd given up

my socks arrived! they're so wonderful, in all their monkey-fit-fit-me-like-a-glove goodness. i wasn't sure about trying the monkey pattern, but then i got these and they're rather beautiful. thanks Martha!

the same day these came, i got and email from my sock pal, who hadn't received hers yet. they were onlygoing one state over, and i have sent them uh....three weeks prior, so i flipped and cast on another pair for her

Have a look of how lucky I am

I have received my wonders, in form of socks of sockpalooza. You can judge yourselves if they are or not wonders, And you cannot count on the impressive trick of the tact! My God! they are extremely smooth!


I looove the hole package, the socks done in koigu color pine, and the ball of yarn of trekking xxl in precious and very inspiring combination of colors that seem to shout to me to jaywalker! but I do not know if with these longer-than-life legs of mine would have to dare to me with that one pattern that seems to give so little elasticity…
One of the reasons to make interchanges is to know weavers, or simply crazy (by handmade, to be understand), of all parts and “to extend circles” either, because I have had the luck of which it surprises to me, so pleasingly The Comfy Bev, Bev is an enthusiastic one of the interchanges, as we can read in his blog, and an untiring and perfectionist weaver I have proofs of it! And you can have a look to the finished objects in her galleries of photos.
I want to take advantage of, also, to request excuses to him to Bev, my stupid mood has caused that does not answer to you before, to neither sends to a message nor nothing you, because there am been a little sad these days, excuses, again, or I have prevailed a change of rate and nothing to leave things for morning, mainly if me they make happy so and so.

Thank you very much Bev, is a pleasure to meet you


(Edited: I'm so kind of dissaster tht I haven't published this one when I wrote it... just don't answer, In my own blog it's posted weeks ago...)

Presents from Kathy

Arrived home Friday (8/24) after a full evening of preparation for a weekend soccer tournament to find a package waiting for me! As I am on a strict yarn diet I knew I had not ordered anything. I tore open the package and inside I found a wonderful little gift. My pal, Kathy gave the sock a valiant effort and an effort I truly appreciate. She did a wonderful job with her start but those short row heals threw her for a loop. I love both the yarn that she worked with and the yarn she gifted - my older daughter has already tagged it for herself.

Thanks, Kathy for the wonderful gifts and heroic effort...

ETA: Thought this had posted last week...yes call me Dork.

Socks from Erika!

Erika has sent me these lovely, lovely socks a few weeks ago...but I am in town, with a camera, and computer, and here to thank her for these gorgeous, perfectly fitting Roza socks (pattern by Grumperina) , a magnet, and great yarn art/postcards!!!! Awesome knitting, and awesome colorway. Thanks, Erika!!!!
My puppy ate my own second sock that I knit for my downstream pal (yes, it's true) and after reknitting the second sock (with new yarn, of course!)...they're ready to be sent to my pal with some goodies...when I told her what my pup did to her sock, she was such a good sport for waiting! :) Kris in NH

Thank you dear sockpal!

I recived my socks from my secret sock pal today, thank you Rachel!!!

They are so beautiful, nice knitted and a lovely colour (I love green). I think that I will try to knitt this pattern my self. Thank you for all the goddies you sent me, there will be fighting in our family now, my two boys have already asked me several times if they can have the Kettle chips or the shewing gum.

This was my first sockapalooza and I cannot wait for the next one. As a beginner, this blog has given me so many links to other blogs and I have a long list of bloggers that I read continously. Thanks to all of you, but most to Rachel!!!

slow to post

I have been a bad Sockpal. My socks arrived on August 4th and I have yet to post about them. Emma at Stitch'n Sue did an amazing job with the color and the pattern. They are waving lace and I can't remember the yarn but it is absolutely wonderful and I love the colors. I love the additional yarn she sent me from East Wind Farms. I took photos right away of the socks, but did so on my (now, as of Aug 14th) MIL's camera and then had trouble getting the photos from them. Throw in a very secret elopement for my husband and I this past week and a brief honeymoon and you get one very neglectful sock pal!

Emma, thank you so much for my wonderful socks. Your knitting is amazing and every stitch so perfect. I feel so lucky to have received your socks. I am currently working out what pattern I want to use for the East Winds Farms yarn. I am tossing around a few ideas and have yet to make a decision. I love the colors and how the yarn feels. So soft.

Thank you again for making my first sockapalooza experience a great one!

slow to post

I have been a bad Sockpal. My socks arrived on August 4th and I have yet to post about them. Emma at Stitch'n Sue did an amazing job with the color and the pattern. They are waving lace and I can't remember the yarn but it is absolutely wonderful and I love the colors. I love the additional yarn she sent me from East Wind Farms. I took photos right away of the socks, but did so on my (now, as of Aug 14th) MIL's camera and then had trouble getting the photos from them. Throw in a very secret elopement for my husband and I this past week and a brief honeymoon and you get one very neglectful sock pal!

Emma, thank you so much for my wonderful socks. Your knitting is amazing and every stitch so perfect. I feel so lucky to have received your socks. I am currently working out what pattern I want to use for the East Winds Farms yarn. I am tossing around a few ideas and have yet to make a decision. I love the colors and how the yarn feels. So soft.

Thank you again for making my first sockapalooza experience a great one!

slow to post

I have been a bad Sockpal. My socks arrived on August 4th and I have yet to post about them. Emma at Stitch'n Sue did an amazing job with the color and the pattern. They are waving lace and I can't remember the yarn but it is absolutely wonderful and I love the colors. I love the additional yarn she sent me from East Wind Farms. I took photos right away of the socks, but did so on my (now, as of Aug 14th) MIL's camera and then had trouble getting the photos from them. Throw in a very secret elopement for my husband and I this past week and a brief honeymoon and you get one very neglectful sock pal!

Emma, thank you so much for my wonderful socks. Your knitting is amazing and every stitch so perfect. I feel so lucky to have received your socks. I am currently working out what pattern I want to use for the East Winds Farms yarn. I am tossing around a few ideas and have yet to make a decision. I love the colors and how the yarn feels. So soft.

Thank you again for making my first sockapalooza experience a great one!

I have a great Pal!

Today I went to check the mail, and lo and behold, there was a package for me from Anne (Natural Fibres) in Yellowknife, North West Territories. She is a sweet thoughtful woman who sent a totally wonderful package (more on my blog).

My socks are gorgeous ... knit in a beautiful turquoise Opal Uni Solid sock yarn (Colour #29), Anne said they were her first attempt at Lace knitting but I think she might be fibbing -- she has done a gorgeous job knitting Hedera (by Cookie A).

My socks are so soft, and the colour is so pretty ... and to top it off, they fit me to a T.
I will try to get a better picture (taken by someone other than me!) later or tomorrow -- they are gorgeous and I want to show them off, and can't seem to get a good angle while they are attached to me -- I am not bendy enough!)

Thank you so much Anne for the very thoughtful package! I love it all , and really do appreciate everything!

I have sockage!!!!!

And sooooo much more thank you Tonni.

See more here!

They came !

I got my socks and they are works of art ! The amazing pattern is Gothic Spires by Cookie A and my wonderful pal Norah knit them out of Regia Silk, a yarn I have always been curious about. She even included an extra skein and so now I can knit with it myself.

As you can see, my pal not only made socks out of luxury yarn, she also included luxury treats . Thank you so much , Norah, the socks fit perfectly and I love them .

And special thanks to the intrepid Alison, who can organize a sock exchange, have a baby and write a book, all at the same time - wow ! Knitters are incredible !

My Pal Received her Socks...not me sofar...

My sockapalooza mate JennaKate received her socks from me - and she posted a glorious review including the most important fact - THEY FIT... I am so glad she liked everything that I added in the box. It was fun spoiling a complete stranger. We had a bit in common, even though I am nearly twice her age... (age is a state of mind though)
My next question is who is my sock mate - I have not received a package yet, and I am starting to get a bit worried. I have had such good luck with my swaps, I am sure they are in the mail, or at least on the needles...
In other news - I spent 11 days at Disney World and it was the hottest I have ever experienced. I brought my knitting but it was way too hot to even think about knitting. Back to knitting today - my yet unfinished forest canopy shawl is going to be done soon. Its a gift, and I need to get it done. Picture to follow.