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...)