the blue blog archives: socks on the go

This is how I pack up the stroller to go anywhere these days. Always the knitting pouch with me. Always with my pal's sock in it, ready to knit if wee one nods off for a wee nap.

I hope your sockapalooza socks are on the go too, because there's only four weeks left! (I'm adding a few more days to the mailing deadline, just to put it on a Tuesday - sort of the unofficial official sockapalooza day. So mailing anytime between August 2nd and August 7th is good.) We've got 150 finished paloozas so far. That's about 15%. Not too bad, but let's see if we can get it up to 50% pretty soon. That'd make me (and everyone else, I imagine) feel muuuuch better.

We had a lot of finishers in June! Check out all the fnishers on the big page. Click on "random finished socker" to jump to a page of someone who is done. And remember when you finish to update your info in the database and post to the pligg so we all know to go look!

Drumroll please.... The winner of the June contest is Elise of hoopskirt! Congratulations! I'll send your info to Allison at Simply Socks and she'll send out your package of socky goodness sometime this month!

So how are my socks on the go going? Well, I finished my first pair of sockapalooza socks last month, of course, and am just past the heel on sock number one of pair number two. (Funny, I remember a saying a similar sentence to wee one yesterday when I had to change her in the Starbucks bathroom into outfit number two because she'd covered outfit number one with number two!)

I'm liking them more and more. The lace pattern is sweet and, I'm noticing now, flatter than the embossed leaves. I suspect that because there's less texture these may actually be more flattering for the large-ankled among us (like myself) to wear. The heel flap certainly did come out nicely. It's a standard slip 1, knit 1 flap but somehow this Gems fingering weight really shows it off well. Pretty, pretty.

posted by alison at 9:22 am | in sockapalooza 4

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Posted by: Jayme at July 10, 2007 9:40 AM

Those look great. I keep my socks with me all the time, but don't seem to get much chance to knit on the run.

Posted by: Jennifer at July 10, 2007 10:26 AM

I stalled on my second sockapalooooza sock in the thrill of Mystery Stole 3, but I want to finish it up right quick!

Posted by: beverly at July 10, 2007 10:29 AM

OK, i have to ask...where did you get your knit pouch? It's WAY cute and would be perfect for putting in my big work bag. Please do tell!!!

The socks look great, too. =)

Posted by: denise at July 10, 2007 11:23 AM

I'm knitting the same pattern for my pal and I did an Eye of Partridge heel, which also looks great with that pattern - especially in a variegated yarn.

Posted by: anne at July 10, 2007 11:30 AM

Thanks for the reminder to post about finished socks on the database. I would have completely forgotten, but thanks to you, I am now updated. What a great Sockapalooza system you have!

Posted by: mary at July 10, 2007 12:44 PM

I'm having a bit of a sockapalooza stress, since it's been rip and knit and rip and knit... *sigh* But I'm well over halfway done with my first sock now, so I guess I'll live. ;)

Posted by: Kristel at July 10, 2007 1:14 PM

This is my first Sockapalooza but I remember one that had a label we could put on the finished socks. Will there be a label for this one? Or I could make my own.
Thanks.

Posted by: Sheri at July 10, 2007 1:22 PM

I was going to ask the same thing that denise did. Where did you get that pouch? The sock is a beauty!

Posted by: Laura at July 10, 2007 2:34 PM

Oh ... I'm knitting this pattern too! Isn't it lovely? :)

Posted by: Agnes at July 10, 2007 2:44 PM

Pretty! I thought about doing the waving lace for my pal, because I loved the picture on the cover. I'm also using leftover sock yarn to knit a wand cozy (because I have a relatively small wand). It's going great guns, and I will certainly have it and at least half a sock done by Friday!

Posted by: Seanna Lea at July 10, 2007 3:23 PM

The pouch is a bathing cap that's been cleverly turned into a zippered bag. I LOVE it! My mom got it for me from Otto Boutique in Brooklyn. You can contact them about possibly ordering one.

Thanks for reminding me, Sheri! I'll make a sockapalooza label for finished socks.

Posted by: ALISON at July 10, 2007 5:39 PM

I am also knitting the waving lace socks, though I am not a sockapaloozer. I'm using knit picks essential solid Dusk, and am at about the same spot. it's such a small world!

Posted by: Erin at July 10, 2007 6:55 PM

Hi, I am almost done with my first Sockapalooza sock. Haven't had time to get cozy with the pligg tho.

Anyhoo - what size needles are you using with the Louet Gems? Thanks!

Posted by: heather t at July 10, 2007 10:50 PM

August 7th? Oh, bless you! Now I know I will get them done and in the mail on time. Whew :-)

Posted by: Kathy at July 11, 2007 2:36 AM

Heather, I'm using some 2.5mm needles that I got from Germany. That translates to about a US 1 1/2.

Posted by: ALISON at July 11, 2007 10:08 AM

Alison,

Thanks! I can't wait to get my package of socky goodness.

The waving lace sock looks fab! That's the pattern I did for my sock pal last time around.

Posted by: Elise at July 11, 2007 11:22 AM