Friday, Aug 29, 2008

Episode 7: 100% Pure Juice (from Concentrate)

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Change is in the air with back to school for some, workplace changes for others. We're gearing up for the holiday season, whatever your seasons might be!
The Triad (Maire, Lhiabelle and Sukuti) all got yarn from Blue Moon this week. We're making the postal worker earn her pay!
Lhia has some sock challenges when it comes to knitting toes.
Maire goes on a rant about practice making perfect that spans 3 generations and two families. Seriously.
On/Off the needles:

- Nanners are off the needles.
- Sweetpea socks have been abandoned.

News you can use:

Super Sock Scarefest starts Monday. Kudos to those who signed up for Fabulous Gifts and Prizes! The rest of us will just play the home-game with less stress, thanks! ;)

Plurkswap is happening! Come on over to the Ravelry Group board to wing around some ideas to send to plurkswap pals.

Maire apologizes for being a bad secret pal and promises to get that last package sent. Bad Maire!

Monkeymen pattern going to Public Beta. I'm inherently lazy and tracking down email addresses drives me nuts...so...yeah. Just let me know if there's anything wrong with the pattern & provide me some pictures when you're done. The final pattern will be a much prettier PDF available for download on Ravelry, but the test-knit will be available here soon.

Lesser Known Sock:

Y'all have another month to get your knit on! You can roll it into one of the many KALs going on this autumn: Super Sock Scarefest, SKA, Socktopia, Sockamania...the mind boggles. Just share the lesser-known-sock love! To win a skein of yummy Cherry Tree Hill Merino sockyarn in Winterberry, you have to post up what you intend to knit, then post up pictures when you're done. The group as a whole will vote on the winning sock.



New Socks on the Block

We find & comment on a small handful of recently released/published sock patterns on Ravelry. Yum!!

Bluet Sock & Garden Sock by Nicole Masson: Two ankle socks, one with a delicate lace pattern, the other with a relief-etched garden. Very pretty!

The Wasp Woman by Heatherly Walker (YarnYenta): a pre-knit from the SuperScarefest. Settle down with some old-school suspense & get your knit on.

Osnabruecker Muster by Kristin Benecken: Another lacy design, this time in the style of some of Cookie A's more elaborate work. Available in both English and German.

Credits:
- Intro clip from “8 BIT Junkie” by George Wood
- Outro clip: "Sheep Marketing Ploy / The Ballad of Fenton" By Worm Quartet

Posted by Maire at 3:11 PM |   

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