Question about 2007 colors

Sockateers | April 05, 2008
By Yodagirl

If I was dying to get my hands on a skein of Firebird but I wasn’t in the club last year (I am this year, thank God!), is it against the rules to ask a member from last year if I could send them a PayPal payment or a money order to buy a skein for me?  I just don’t think I can wait until it’s available for everyone!

-Erica in Seattle

Shhh! Don’t tell Tina, but it’s not a sock!

Notorious Sock Knitters | April 04, 2008
By Lisa

Between last quarter’s class content and this quarter’s projects, my brain could not wrap itself around a sock pattern.  But I couldn’t NOT do something with “Lucky.”  So I’m working on this scarf.  It’s “Brooke’s Column of Leaves” pattern, but I’m working it in a larger needle size because I want something loose.  When I block it out, it will be about twice as wide as it is now, and a lovely spring wrap/scarf.  I work on it mostly on the train to and from classes; it’s nice to have pretty yarn to play with when my brain can’t handle anything more about paleoanthropology, Mongol hordes, or editing historical documents.

(Picture link is to the scarf at my wordpress blog.)

Why to read the blog.

Camp Crows Feet, Notorious Sock Knitters | April 04, 2008
By Alice in the Heartland

You’re first to see Tina’s contests. You’re first to see what the designer has to say about the current pattern. And you get help from other loyal blog readers. That said I need you to know that this blog mom may not be following things very closely for the next couple of weeks. The obvious reason is I’m heading to sock camp. The not so obvious reason is the DH has landed himself back in the hospital with a fever of 105.6º. This is a record for him but similar has happened before and so it’s not an unusual event around our house. (Suppressed immune systems tend to react poorly to bugs and viruses.) After multiple antibiotics the fever is under 99º and things are following a path we’ve travelled a few times in the last couple of years. However I tend to stick close to him during these events and so won’t be paying much attention to on-line things. Hope everyone has a great time with Lucky. I’m still trying to get Serendipity to behave. I may change loyalties and go right on to Lucky. I did manage to get the last of last year’s yarns knit up before the #&*% hit the fan around here. Sometimes it makes for wonderful knitting time and others my brain takes a vacation and can only handle basic sock patterns (thank you Cat and Stephanie) Time to head back to the hospital, Happy Knitting, AliceP.S. Still looking forward to the yarn crawl and the alpaca farms and a heavy dose of R&R with the sockateers and other campers.