the blue blog archives: tuesday is knitalong day

I spent all my Sockapal-2-za blog reading time last week finishing those 57,000 stitches on the Harry Potter scarf! So this week's update includes only those updates that you all alerted me to.* If you've also made some progress, let us know about it in the comments!

Followed by some sock pals hard at work:
Cara has started some exquisite socks using Evelyn Clark's Acorn Socks pattern
Ashley's periwinkle Lorna's Laces socks are underway (she's also posted a wrapped short-row tutorial for those who are looking for a little help with that technique - check it out!)
Joy is working on lace socks in Debbie Bliss Baby Cashmerino
Emy has her first CashCotton Broadripple sock halfway done
Jen is past the heel on the Koigu socks for her pal (looks like she's doing both together on circular needles!)
Susanne is also doing both of her wavy patterned socks at the same time
Linda has added a heel in Lorna's Laces to her pal's Koigu sock
Krista finished the first of her basket-weave cuffed socks (in super fab red and black!)
Kathy's side-to-side sock is really starting to look sockish - you've got to see it!
Jenn's Waving Lace socks have started waving
Beth has started some beautiful lace socks for her pal
Dorothee has begun her sock in some spectacularly colored yarn
Sarah has one fabulous ankle sock all done
Alison has sent in a photo of the pattern and yarn she's chosen (pretty pink!)
Tracy has one false start behind her and is ready to get started again
Carola picked up her sock yarn on her recent trip to Berlin
Di is looking for some help deciding between some wonderful choices
Margene, who has been knitting some amazing non-sockapal-2-za socks, promises an update today!

And finally - get your imaginations ready - pictureless pals' progress:
beginner Leslie is all finished!
Jacky's all done too!
Tonia reports that she's almost to the heel of her first sock using a pattern from Socks Socks Socks and Lorna's Laces
Angela writes that she'll be knitting "Landlocked Socks" (wonder what those will look like!)
Nina reports that she's finished one sock already in Knitpics merino
Phoebe will be making Crusoe in Diaketto yarn!
Orli is being very secretive, but says that she's started her socks with yarn from Elann

*The moral of this story: send me an email with your sock progress and you're sure to be in the next week's post!

posted by alison at 9:01 am | in sockapaltwoza

Comments

The moral of this story: until next week, you will receive 350 emails Alison!
Btw, how are your socks going?

Posted by: Dorothee at July 12, 2005 9:48 AM

I cast on for the first sock, will post pics as soon as I have something worthy of showing.

Posted by: Amy at July 12, 2005 9:48 AM

Hi Alison,
Love the Harry Potter Window. I've been reading the last two over again so I'm prepared when mine arrives.

I finished the first of my socks last night.

Posted by: Gwen at July 12, 2005 9:49 AM

I've started several sockpal socks, but I'm still undecided and need to get my s--- together. I do love reading about everyone else's progress and selections...this is such fun. Thank you again for coordinating..Take care :)

Posted by: michele at July 12, 2005 9:57 AM

I will have a sockpaltwoza update next week, as I just finished a pair of socks that I'd started prior to joining the sock pal kal. I would like to finish up a couple more things before starting up a new project. Thanks.

Posted by: Wanda at July 12, 2005 10:19 AM

i have a sock pal update on my blog. i'm trying to finish a few things and will be starting over the weekend. thanks for putting this all together!

Posted by: amanda at July 12, 2005 10:24 AM

I have one sock pal sock done. It's on my blog.

Posted by: erin at July 12, 2005 10:34 AM

oh man! i'm feeling the pressure!! i sure hope the yarn i ordered arrives soon!! in the meantime, i'm making a trial run of the pattern i chose in some bernat sox yarn. oh, thank you thank you for your links on the side. i was checking them out yesterday and they were really useful to me :)

Posted by: rebecca at July 12, 2005 10:40 AM

This is awesome. I'm over my hump and have picked out the pattern and the yarn...swatching begins today!

Posted by: stephanie at July 12, 2005 10:41 AM

I got my socks started! Pic on my blog on July something.. lol Heck I cant remember I think it was yesterday!

Posted by: Gina at July 12, 2005 10:55 AM

my socks for my pal are growing slowly but steadily! see them here - http://coriknits.blogspot.com/

Posted by: cori w at July 12, 2005 11:16 AM

Hi, Alison. Everyone's socks look great! I'm blogless, so here's the scoop:

I picked up my sock pal's yarn while on vacation last week (Jimmy Bean's Wool, in Truckee, CA). I chose Rowan's Cashcotton 4-ply and am using a simple cable rib pattern (after frogging several other stitch patterns). I'm about 1/3 done on the first sock. I'll try to get a photo to you. Thanks!

Posted by: Jenny at July 12, 2005 11:27 AM

I'm done! I just got my photos up on my blog.

Posted by: Jessica at July 12, 2005 3:43 PM

Oh I love reading all the sock updates! I've posted my own update on my blog yesterday.

Posted by: Emily at July 12, 2005 3:49 PM

Hi Alison - ooo fun to hear what everyone else is doing! I have finally had time to start swatching with some yummy burnt orange merino, trying to find just the right lacey cable for some toe-up socks I'm designing for my pal. Hope to post photos later in the week!

Posted by: gaile at July 12, 2005 5:14 PM

I am in need of feedback on my sock pal socks. I love the yarn, but am not sure about the pattern. Check out my progress at http://joe.english.purdue.edu/wordpress/?p=223 ...please! :-)

Posted by: Samantha at July 12, 2005 6:45 PM

Since Harry Potter is re-surfacing, do you think there will be a Weasley Sweater pattern around again for those of us who want to be in the Weasley along? I have hesitated to start my son's because I am not sure about the size of the chart and all that. I'm new at this!!

Posted by: patti at July 12, 2005 8:09 PM

I am knitting Columbine Peak from the Socks Soar on two circular needles book by Cat Bordi. I love knitting socks this way. I also started a blog since I signed up for the Sockapal-2-za. It's called The Tangled Web.Typepad.com. I will post some pictures in the next day or two.

Posted by: Diane at July 12, 2005 9:20 PM

Wow! Other people's browsers are doing funny things to my socks. You are the second person to think they are pink and black. Actually, they're red and black. It's red Cascade Fixation, which is a bit muted and has kind of a brick color to it. Very nice color, but not pink.

Posted by: Krista at July 13, 2005 4:49 AM

I love seeing all the socks everyone is making! And speaking of socks, mine are done, and pictured on my blog!

Posted by: barbara at July 14, 2005 7:30 AM

Another sock update for me! Hopefully I'll be done with them next week. :-D

http://www.livejournal.com/users/irihs/259443.html

Posted by: Rebekkah at July 17, 2005 6:26 PM

We had a photoshoot of the turned heel with the help of a lazy production assistant.

Posted by: Tiffany at July 18, 2005 1:35 PM