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?

Related Posts

This Post Has 105 Comments

  1. My favorite is a toe up sock with a real gusset and heel. I have big feet, hence the toe up, but I something that is deeper than a short row heel. It is my most recent find and I love it!

  2. I’m ready to knit!! My goal is to have a pair of socks for everyone’s stocking this year! I love Woolen Rabbit’s sock yarn and I know just who would love this color! (Besides me!)

  5. Great idea! I have bunch of Kim’s sock yarn in my stash, but unfortunately not Pussywillow. 🙁 Such a gorgeous color. I love my Monkey socks though my favorite sock pattern is a plain vanilla one, top down baby! Maybe I’ll splurge and try a picot edge-lol.

  6. For great fit and soothing knitting, I love your pattern!!! I’ve made lots of patterns and always come back to your pattern. Monkeys and Carols are my way to go!!!

  7. I have one skein of Woolen Rabbit yarn in my stash, colorway Scottish Heather. It’s in my ” Monthly-Work- from-My-Stash drawer. Time to find a sock pattern!

  8. I’ve come across many projects using Woolen Rabbit and they are always beautiful!
    I don’t have a favourite sock patternper say. I like to knit lots of different patterns and have yet to knit the same pattern twice. I do love anything by Jeannie Cartmel though 🙂

  9. My favorite sock pattern is the monkey sock and your plain/picot edge sock pattern. Pussywillow is beautiful.

    Thanks for the giveaway.

  11. Since I rarely knit the same pattern twice, my favourite pair of socks is always my next pair of socks – whatever that may be.

    Wow, Pussywillow is a gorgeous colour.

  14. I was pretty addicted to Monkeys for a while. I think I’ve knit six or seven pairs of them. I also make a plain, picot edge sock (probably just like yours) that I love.

  15. My favorite pattern is my own, simple “short and sweet” socks! I’m going to jump in on the KAL and give the monkey socks a go. Just so happens I have a brand new skein of Woolen Rabbit in New England Red just screaming to be made into monkey socks, hehe!

  16. Yeah to your first paragraph. I did think for a minute or two
    that you had seconds thoughts about continuing your blog. Is it bad that your blog comes before the front pages of the major news papers?? LOL

    I have had two or three of Woolen Rabbits yarn and my last
    purchase was the Grey Goose color in Opal – but that is saved
    for a shawl. Love her yarn and would love to have another skein for a sock KAL – love that color Pussywillow. My favorite pattern
    that I have used since the day I started knitting socks about 10
    years ago is the Yankee Knitter, Classic Socks for the family
    pattern.

    Thanks for the giveaway. Great idea have a sock KAL.

  17. My favorite socks are toe-up, with a short-row heel and feather and fan on the leg. I know they slouch, but all my socks slouch, and they slouch prettily. It also makes for autopilot knitting without being as boring as plain stockinette legs – great for long meetings.

  18. I’m glad you are going to keep blogging! I enjoy your blog, though admittedly, I seldom have something to say.

    As for my favorite sock pattern – well, I know this is underwhelming, but I love the pattern I learned with, Yankee Knitter Basic Socks for the Family. Especially with variegated yarns, I can’t think of a pattern that is better. Easy to knit, and then with certain yarns, more stunning than if I tried to use a “fancy” pattern …

  19. Hey, that’s my yarn!!! Ha!! I love the color – can’t wait to start. More knit socks are needed — hockey season starts in a month.

  20. I’m about 4/5 of the way through my first pair of socks, Ann Budd’s 5 Stitches per Inch. Right now, since they’re the only pair I’ve worked on, these are my favorite. Thanks for the contest!

  23. Kim’s yarn sure is beautiful! The colors are gorgeous and it’s great to work with. My favorite sock pattern is a toe-up Monkey. The pattern is fun and I’m especially fond of it because I made a pair in red for my sister and she loves, loves, loves them. It feels good when a gift is such a big hit!

  24. WooHoo – Carole’s still blogging and sock-knitting, life is good. I’m a relative sock newbie. I tend to do 3×1 ribs for me and Norma’s classic Magic 28 for charity knitting. Speaking of which, if you want to see a really heartwarming picture of the joy that socks bring – check out the Wool-Aid Rav group in the Knit for Tibet campaign – there’s a picture of some kids receiving handknit socks and it’ll make you grin all day. I love that regardless of pattern, kids will consitently make hand puppets out of socks – grin just thinking about it.

  26. October of 2009 I made the Mystery sock with Pussywillow. I love knitting with Kim’s yarn and love how the socks wear. I’m in the middle of my second sock with Forever in Blue Jeans and need to get them finished. Yay for Kim, Kathy and YOU for starting a KAL!

  27. Love that colorway and Kim’s yarns!

    I knit Maelstrom by Cookie A. with that particular colorway, which is a great pattern, but my favorite still has to be Violet’s Rising by Anne Hanson in Kim’s Rose Quartz colorway.

    Great choice of dyer, you two!

  28. I don’t usually knit the same pattern twice so my favorite is always the one on my needles. I LOVE the Pussywillow color and am going to order a skein right now.

  29. My favourite pattern must be Broadripple from Knitty because I’ve knit it about 5 times. It just skips along and makes good car knitting.

  31. My favorite sock pattern is “Carole’s picot edge socks”. Tried it a year or two ago and I love the simplicity of it.

  32. “Pussywillow” is just gorgeous!

    My favorite sock pattern is just a simple cuff-down (flap heel) waffle sock. 2 rounds 2×2, 2 rounds stockinette. It’s just so squoshy and wonderful and perfect, and looks great in solid or variegated yarns. ::happysigh::

  34. I love Woolen Rabbit yarns! My favorite sock pattern is my own plain and simple toe-up sock with a figure eight cast on and a Sherman Heel. I’ve made about 20 pairs this way so far and still going strong!

  35. My favorite sock yarn pattern for gifts is Cable Twist Socks by Adrian Bizilla. For the boy it’s On Your Toes socks by Ann Budd. Hmm for myself I am still deciding, I guess I haven’t knit enough for myself! 😀

  36. I love Tesserae from Anne Hanson. It is a rather simple pattern, but what it does with variegated yarn is spectacular.

  37. I keep thinking I should learn to knit socks… maybe a KAL is the ticket for the end of summer. I have dutifully saved a copy of your charming picot edged socks, which seems like the logical choice for such a project. And yes, I love Woolen Rabbit yarns, even if they keep telling me they want to be shawls instead of socks. ;^)

  38. Happy Day, Carole! My go-to sock pattern isn’t really a pattern; rather a Franken-Sock. Depending on the recipient, I rib, twist rib, or picot the top. Depending on the recipient, I rib (3×1, 2×2) or stockinette the body. And guess what? Depending on the recipient 🙂 , I’ll use http://www.socknitters.com/Tips/heels_by_the_number.htm to create the heel. However, if the sock is for my MIL or my own mom, I go Monkey. I need to ween them off Monkey! I just checked out Cookie A’s first sock book and Ann Budd’s Traveling sock book from the library. Some fun reading! Have a great one today, Carole!

  39. The only thing I’ve ever knit more than once is a plain-jane stockinette sock. That said, I did enjoy knitting Spring Forward and could see making a second pair at some point. And the same can be said of Nornir, which was a Sock Madness pattern this year and which is now available to the public.

  41. I recently tried spiral socks but found I miss the traditional heel. Otherwise my faves are plain, vanilla cuff-down or baby cables from Charlene Schurch’s book.

  42. I’ve been on vacation but just wanted to let you know this is generally where I begin my day. And it helps. 🙂 I tend to go back to the Jaywalker pattern and have a pair going right now in Robins Nest received in the WR yarn club. Beautiful stuff!

  43. Please don’t roll your eyes at this but my favorite sock pattern just happens to be yours! I love the scalloped top. Sometimes I do work a bit of a rib into them by doing a purl stitch where the scallop dips every two or three scallops. I have some of Kim’s sock yarn rolled into a cake and ready to cast on…I think it is her Blue Jeans color. It’s beautiful yarn!

  44. My favorite pattern is “Chicknits Sock Love better than chocolate?” It’s a plain vanilla pattern but the numbers just work for me. And I like the graduated toe decreases.

  45. I don’t think I have ever knit the same pattern twice with the exception of the plain ol’ vanilla sock pattern. I knit toe up to use up as much of the yarn as possible. I love “trying” stitch patterns out that I have seen in mags or on line by using them on socks. Sometimes, I end up using that stitch in other garments after “swatching” on my socks!! What a beautiful colour that pussywillow is….gorgeous..nothing ever comes from Kim that is not gorgeous…

  46. Aww……Carole, you are SO sweet! Now I know what that extra skein you needed was for…LOL. You and Kathy were TOO funny Saturday with that Pussywillow yarn…Ken got such a kick out of it. 🙂

    Love you grrls!!

  47. While I’ve been reading your blog for only about 4 months, I’m no stranger to Kim’s yarns. The Woolen Rabbit is my go-to for sock yarn and some of the best colors out there. Like Diane said – what a great way to bring us lurkers out of the woodwork. Like so many here – I just can’t pick a favorite sock pattern. There are SO many socks and just not enough time. LOL I have preferences though. I like a sock with a pattern – something to give it interest – but not so much of a pattern that it gets lost in a varigated yarn. I love a turned picot edge more than a ribbed cuff – and I love a heel flap and turned heel. I guess I really prefer top down socks. That sure leaves the door open for all kinds of patterns, doesn’t it? Anyway – thank you for the opportunity.

  48. My go to pattern for socks is either my simple knit 3 purl 1 rib pattern or yours. I don’t really like to “think” when I’m knitting socks. They just end up my mindless knitting on most days. I have never knitted with Woolen Rabbit Yarn. Keeping my fingers crossed that I win and I can give it a try!

  49. I’m a traditionalist and do socks top down, one at a time with either a gusset or a band heel on dpn’s. I usually do a texture pattern using knit and purl stitches that I design myself. Just distributed nine pair of socks at a family gathering this past weekend, so I’m going to be busy filling up the sock box again. Have never tried Woolen Rabbit sock yarn, but would love to!

  50. i am so knew to knitting socks and I have only knit 3 pair, there is a pattern I want to try called take 5 by Dee kissinger I have never used Woolen Rabbit, but it looks like gorgeous yarn!!

Comments are closed.

Back To Top