SockTart

SockTart Episode Six: Keeps on Tickin’

This week we talk about our irresponsible, lazy, neighbourhood postal worker. Also, the sock blockers arrive, and yarn is ordered!

Oh…and the Professor gets hit by a car….

On/Off the needles:

- The Monkeymen are done. Done like dinner. Booyeah. We are looking for a couple of test knitters to volunteer themselves for interpreting my pattern directions.

- Still working on the Nanners and the Sweetpea socks. Sweetpeas are my current focus for end-of-month.

Lesser Known Sock:

Forgot to mention it, but there’s only about a week to go before voting starts. Pictures of finished works would be lovely

New Socks on the Block

We find & comment on a small handful of recently released/published sock patterns on Ravelry. Yum!!

Simply Devine Socks by Melly A. Matthews:
Lesum-Pattern by Kristin Benecken
Ruth’s Harvest Socks by Susan Sharpe
Shur’tagal by Alice Yu.

Pattern Source!:

We take a look at The Inside Loop, an online Fibre Arts magazine based out of the UK. Go take a gander at the patterns and articles available here! Not only do they have consistently lovely sock designs, but designs to cover all the other parts of your body…

Yarn Review:

Discussion about The Professor’s Brimstone Jaywalkers leads to a review (and recap) of Mama E’s C*EYE*BER Fibre.
Announcements:

New Sock Club! Cables & Lace are putting together a sock club that will include skeins and patterns. I’m hoping to make an order of sock yarn soon. If Knitting Dragon ever comes out with a powder pink & black colourway, I am so there…

Race for the Cure: Manda (Hello Lovely) of Knitting Psychos (listen to her podcast!) is participating in the Susan G. Komen 3-Day Event in San Francisco. She’s been training hard and is trying to reach a goal of $2200 in donations. Please head over to her site and help her reach (or surpass) the goals she has set. She’s also holding a draw for fabulous gifts & prizes, so donate often for more chances to win! If you have breastesses, you can’t afford to not donate (that includes you boys too…male breast cancer is rarer, but it happens!)

Little Pink Sock Project: Knit a little pink sock. Send it away. Make a donation to the Oregon Humane Society. Get a little pink sock with a gift certificate. Make a puppy’s day.

Credits:
- Intro clip from “8 BIT Junkie” by George Wood
- Outro music: “All You Said” by Everyday Jones