Knit Socks!

Wow! Thank you all so much for the deluge of comments on last Thursday’s post. I really appreciate that many of you took the time to de-lurk and introduce yourselves. I loved the comments from my long time readers and friends, too. I certainly didn’t mean to make any of you think that I was considering giving up the blog because that’s certainly not the case. I love writing it and sharing my life with all of you and I have every intention of continuing. I couldn’t imagine not having the connection to this community we’ve all built.

Speaking of community, Kathy and I have decided it’s time for a knit along. We want you all to knit socks (any pattern you like) and we’d love it if you’d knit those socks with Woolen Rabbit sock yarn. Kim is such a sweet friend of ours and she dyes gorgeous colors and we think you should all give her yarn a try. Of course you are free to choose any of Kim’s colors that appeal to you but Kathy and I will be knitting our socks with “Pussywillow” and we’d love it if you all used that color, too.

In fact, I’m giving away this skein of Pussywillow to get a lucky reader started. Just leave a comment on this post telling me the name of your favorite sock pattern and you’ll be automatically entered in the contest. And just for the sake of closure, let’s say the contest is open until midnight on Wednesday, 8/17.

A contest and a knit along. How’s that for jump starting this ole knitting blog?

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  1. I have tried lots of patterns but my “go – to” pattern is Carol’s picot edge sock. I have 1/2 a drawer full of them!

  2. I will be knitting a plain vanilla sock for the knit along – my favorite as it travels easily. Love the woolen rabbit yarn!

  3. Yours! I was going to show you my knitted mitts (in progress on #2) on Saturday, which are based on your sock pattern, but we didn’t get to it.

  4. I haven’t knit many pairs of socks …yet (but have a bit of sock yarn!) I really enjoyed BFF by Cookie A. Love the cute cables! Haven’t heard of Pussywillow—looks very pretty! Would love to win it…and get going making more socks—love to wear them!!

  5. I think my most frequently knit sock pattern is yours! I have lots of gorgeous sock yarns and I think a stockinette sock shows off the colors best. Plus I love a picot edge. 🙂

  6. Thanks for the drawing, Carole! The Pussywillow colorway is truly gorgeous. I have been reading Kim’s blog recently, but do not have any og her yarn…yet! My favorite sock pattern is from Sidna’s Socks.
    Sadly, Sidna passed away several years ago…she was a dear friend and an incredibly capable knitting mentor. Jo

  7. My all-time favorite sock pattern is the oldie but goodie: Broadripple by Rob Matyska. Looks good in every yarn and stretches to fit nearly every foot without sagging.

  8. I usually never knit the same pattern twice.But I’d pick Almondine by Anne Hanson and change it to toe-up.

  9. Because I cant buy any yarn in 2011 and I would LOVE to participate in this KAL, this is the only way I could. I have looked at Woolen Rabbit yarn, and it is definitely on my list for 2012.

    Honestly, (sorry to burst your bubble on a pattern idea) but I really enjoy plain vanilla socks. I think this is the only true way to show off the beauty of a yarn. Nothing to get in the way of the colors and stitch definition.

  11. I love Stephanie Pearl-McPhee’s basic sock pattern, as it’s the only pair of socks I’ve ever knitted! It’s pretty awesome. 🙂

  12. The Woolen Rabbit yarn is lovely! I’ve never used it, but would use it wisely if I won.

    My current knit is a thermal sock pattern by someone identified only as Linda on the website where I found it. It’s made of worsted weight yarn and is warm enough for my dog-walking son, during the worst of Minneapolis’s weather. Thank you, Linda, whoever you may be!

    A knit-along! What fun. I’m off to find me some Woolen Rabbit yarn, just in case I don’t win. (fat chance!)

  13. Hey, I’m joining in. I’ll be using Woolen Rabbit Pearl and the Bricker pattern by Anne Hanson. My favorite patterns are No-Purl monkeys and Broadripple.

  14. Wow, hard to contain myself to just one favorite sock pattern. Cookie A comes in on the top of my list, as does just about anything by Charlene Schurch. I recently had the opportunity to meet Kim (via phone) and just fell in love with her. She’s so passionate about her work and her customers. I would LOVE to try her sock yarn!!

  15. My, that’s a gorgeous color.

    And, my favorite pattern is a non-pattern, really. Just a basic, toe-up, short-row heel, plain old stockinette sock. The kind I can do without looking when I’m out and about. Pretty though all the others are, socks are the only truly mindless knitting I get to do, and I love them for that!

    Of course, that makes the pretty, pretty yarn that much more important…

  16. I love the fact that I can connect with other knitters by reading blogs, even if I don’t leave a comment or meet the blogger in person. It’s inspiring! Now, for a sock comment: I knit for 50+ years, never making a sock other than a Christmas stocking, until just last year. I have yet to make a toe-up, so that is what I’d like to try next. Also, never knit with Woolen Rabbit yarn, so that would be a treat to win!

  17. P. S. I LOVE the fact that you have responded via email to the couple of comments I’ve made. What a gift. Thanks.

  20. I would have to say my favorite is just a plain sock 64 sts US 1.5 double points and away I go- pattern in my head so always handy!

  21. Favorite sock pattern. Wow pretty much anything with a cable. I am going to have to say Wendy Johnson toe up with a difference, they are the only ones I have knitted that fit my feet really well and I can change the cuff to any pattern I like. I always have a basic pair of these on the needles in my purse.

  22. My favorite sock pattern is Wendy’s Generic Toe-Up Sock. I’ve made it so many times I have it memorized. I really, REALLY want to try some other fun sock patterns but it seems that when I start a new sock I have about 3 seconds to grab my yarn and needles and run out the door — no time to find a new pattern. Some day…

  23. My favorite pattern is “A Nice Ribbed Sock” by Glenna C. I found this from a blog by the Crazy Knitting Lady. I love love love the yarn you are sharing! I seem to be hooked on those colors. I am up for a KAL, I’m finishing up a pair I’ve worked on for TOOOO long.

  24. Love the Woolen Rabbit yarns that I saw on Saturday – although I can’t enter the contest, I plan on learning socks next. Any easy patterns that you can suggest? Thanks!

  26. I used to knit socks all the time — just plain old sock-socks, with 1×1 ribbing on top, a reinforced heel with standard gusset, and a standard toe. But I haven’t been in the mood to knit socks for a few years!

  27. I’ve been a plain vanilla type all these years – a toe up sock with a 2×2 rib for the leg. Maybe some new yarn will inspire a new pattern 🙂

  28. I don’t have a fancy pattern that I use, I just use a plain vanilla pattern. I like to let the yarn be the focus.

    I do have tons of books/patterns, though, so I’m looking forward to seeing all the different socks.

  29. Favorite sock pattern? Hmmm, right now it would be Priscella’s Dream Sock pattern from IK Magazine Fall 2000. I think it was repeated in a Favorite Socks book too. Top-down but with a short-row heel and toe.

  30. Oh, that is a great color! Count me in on the knit along. I’ll order some now if Kim can keep up with demand. I love my ‘Meida’s socks’ by Nancy Bush and ‘Celebrate Spring’ by Ann Budd (free pattern). These are both very fun to knit and not really hard, but not beginner either.

  31. I’ve only knit four pairs of socks so don’t really have a favorite. Love the pussywillow color, will have to check if I already own it.

  32. My favorite sock patterns tend to be ones that wear like iron and keep my feet warm while traipsing through the snow. My most worn pair is Gentleman’s Halfhose in Ringwood By Nancy Bush.

  33. My favorite sock pattern is a plain vanilla sock pattern that I have adapted over the years – top down using two circs. I have made these socks so many times that I have the pattern memorized! I’d love to make them using Kim’s yarn. I’ve used her yarn before and it is lovely!

  34. What lovely yarn! I’d love to try it.

    I’ve only finished one pair of socks and a few strays so there isn’t a favorite pattern yet. The plan is to knit socks for at least the family that lives locally by Christmas, so at least six pairs.

  35. I love cookie a.’s monkey pattern because of how easy it is to remember, but last year I also knit her “summer sox” pattern and it was so pretty. I want to try your standard pattern, but wonder how to get a good stretchy picot edge. I need longer than 6″ cuffs too. For men, Thuja has been my favorite. I haven’t knit any socks in over a year. I really should because I love it when I do! I want to try a cat bordhi pattern, with her outside-the-box formulas. What is yours, aside from your own? In the end, simple with a complicated look appeals to me).

  40. Waving from IL. My favorite pattern is just a generic cuff down. I learned to knit socks this way. I have tried the toe-up and liked it, but always go back to the cuff down. Anyway, love the colorway and thank-you for a chance.
    Lynn

  42. Still love to use the Yarn Harlot’s basic sock pattern. I can add things to it as desired, but stick to the basic structure because they are a good fit for me. Love the yarn and would really like to make a pair of my socks with it.

  43. Love the color! I don’t have a favorite pattern, I rarely repeat a pattern. I do prefer to knit top down w/heel flap and gusset though.

  44. I love my plain vanilla socks with a picot top and a slip-stitch heel, but I just discovered how to make Cat Bordhis tomato heel, and it may be the go to heel for me.

  46. That is a beautiful colorway! My favorite sock pattern is my toe-up vanilla sock pattern. I’ve recently started using my handspun for socks and it is great to use up every ounce of yarn with the toe-up construction.

  47. The yarn is beautiful! I do like knitting the Jaywalker by Grumperina. Thanks for the chance to win this lovely yarn!

  48. I enjoyed making monkeys (my first go at socks, several years ago) but my current favorite (and last pair of socks completed) is Spring Forward in Knitty. Frankly, though, I’d love to try a pair of Carole’s picot edge socks. I just got sidetracked for a while by having a baby at the tender young age of 43. Need to get back to my regularly scheduled knitting.

  50. Carol, read your blog every morning. Please enter me in your drawing as I will be knitting my first pair of socks and the color of the yarn is just right.

    what a good idea and great inspiration to start my first pair of socks!

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