What Color Name is the new club kit?

Notorious Sock Knitters | May 29, 2008
By Lori Stevens

I just got my club kit and the colors are FANTASTIC!  However, my yarn didn’t have a band on it, so I don’t know what the color is called?  Can anyone help without giving anything away to those who haven’t gotten their kits yet? 

 Lori

Missing Kit

Notorious Sock Knitters | May 29, 2008
By Gisele M Hawkins

I may be one of the few members down in Lake Charles, LA, but I haven’t recieved my package yet.  Has it gone out to the lower states in the South? 

Could I have been overlooked? 

 Granted I am still stuck on the heel of the other kit and put it aside to take on other tasks, but I still love my yarn and my socks.

Waiting patiently in Lousiana.

Gisele

May: Cleopatra’s Stockings

Designer's Corner, Warning Spoilage | May 28, 2008
By MarjanHammink

hi there Notorious Sock Knitters!

my name is Marjan, I live in the Netherlands. So now my Cleopatra found her way to you from my studio to your homes. She is in fact the result of my son playing with a lovely green organza ribbon. He wrapped it around a sock on a mannequin’s foot and it just looked beautiful. I tried how the slashing pattern traveled across the foot sole…. found out how it looked nicer when I doubled it on the upper foot, eliminating the foot sole pattern, cutting out excessive lace, letting the yarn do what it always does best: playing the starring role.

Left Lifted Increase Question

March Kit Questions | May 28, 2008
By Shelly Goering

Sad to say I’m a bit behind on the March kit and am now frenzied trying to complete it before I end up too far behind for May and have a stress disorder come fall when I’m three kits behind. 

I’m about 3 inches into the leg on the first sock.  Love the pattern but have a question about the “left lifted increase”.  When you put the “left leg of the stitch two rows below” on the right-hand needle, is the “left leg” one strand or two?  I’m also finding it virtually impossible to insert the needle from front to back.  I’ve been lifting one strand from back to front and then “twisting” it when I put it on the left needle so it’s in correct position (or I’m knitting throught the back loop).  Did anyone else have this dilemma?  The pattern is coming out fine, but the center section between the leaves doesn’t look symmetrical — the LLI side is bulkier than the RLI side, so I wonder if I’m doing the stitch incorrectly.  Any advice would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks so much, and happy knitting!

May: Cleopatra’s Stockings

Designer's Corner | May 27, 2008
By MarjanHammink

dear sock knitters,

hej - I’d like to say hello to you all! My name is Marjan, I live in the Netherlands and I designed Cleopatra’s Stockings.

This pattern was the result of a piece of lovely ribbon, wrapped around a mannequin’s foot. I loved the way it curved around & around. I tried to follow the path that the ribbon had shown me, yes also on the foot sole…. But the effect would be even double if I only kept the pattern on the upper foot… And why not create ladders where you’d avoid them, holes where previously unwanted? Not too much though, I wanted it to be a fast knit after all and the yarn hardly needed anything, gorgeous as it is already. Wishing you lots of fun with the Cleopatra’s - Yarnissima