This is my test knit pair of socks for Sock Madness round 2. At first glance, the pattern looks much harder than it is. With needle and yarn in hands, you just have to go carefully row by row and then the intarsia in the round begins to make sense. Once I got over thinking it was hard, these socks really flew off the needles. The stripes and the pattern make this a hard project to put down. We have more competitors than every which makes for an incredibly busy spring but it’s also a lot of fun!
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The morning we released the last and final pattern for Sock Madness 6. Our five finalists will be knitting this lovely pattern which combines twined and regular knitting. I really enjoy test knitting this one and am sure I’ll do more twined knitting in the future.
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At last I can show you some of what I have been knitting. This is Roosimine, the round 5 pattern for Sock Madness. I wasn’t the primary test knitter but I did get called in for backup when Tricia thought it was really easy and wanted to see if I thought the same. I knit loosely and I think that gives me an advantage in these sorts of patterns so that I blew through the cuff very quickly and it goes over my heel with the greatest of ease. I have a high instep though so when I got to the arch shaping the sock wouldn’t go onto my foot and I put it away in time out for awhile. Lo and behold, when I got it out for a photo session this morning it does go on my foot but it’s wicked tight over the instep. Now I must decide whether to frog and reknit the foot with shaping on alternate rows rather than every row or just let it be and hope it loosens up a bit more. It’s a very fun knit and I highly recommend it!
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We have had our first round of Sock Madness (a sock knitting competition on Ravelry) and about 200 competitors finished socks and have been split up into 5 teams. My job this week was to create gmail groups for all of them in preparation for sending out patterns for the remaining competition rounds. Law and Order on my iphone kept me company and a nice bowl of chicken soup gave me sustenance. It felt odd to make soup in the middle of a hot week but this is the time of year I usually get a sinus infection so I’m doing my best to stay healthy.
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