June winner and SAM3 wrap-up!

Since it's August, I figured I may as well go ahead and draw our June winner. Why do today what you can put off until tomorrow, right? Well, if any of you have gotten your Fall issue of Interweave Knits, check out the Snowflake Socks and you'll see one of the happy reasons why I don't have much time for managing knit-alongs anymore.

So, June winner - it is...Abbehope! I'm also going to do the July winner while we're at it - it is...Sarah! E-mail me your addresses for some sock yarn.

I am going to wait until I get home from vacation to draw for the grand prize winners. In the meantime, make sure you get any last lingering July socks posted and ensure that your sidebar letters are correct. If not, e-mail your hostess with any corrections.

Thanks again for playing, everyone, and I look forward to seeing you (as a lowly participant this time) in SAM4!

Chrissy
http://knittinmom.blogspot.com

Finished!

I was able to finish up these socks for my Sockapalooooza pal last night. I'm very happy with how they turned out. These are the Caesar's Check pattern from Sensational Knitted Socks using Knit Picks Essential Solid in Navy and Dusk.

Thanks for continuing the SAM KALs : )
limedragon :-: Harriet

Under the Wire...

Here is one pair of my socks completed for July. Hooray! Technically these were finished on July 28 while we were driving through British Columbia on our road trip back to Alaska. We just arrived home & I have access to the internet!

Details: Embossed Leaves Pattern from Interweave's Favorite Socks
Yarn: Regia Silk - sorry, during our 11,000 mile road trip, I lost the ball band
Needles: Size 2 Addi Turbo, Magic Loop Method
Modifications: Did not use the 1 x 1 cast on for sock #2 - not elastic enough.

**Love this yarn & these socks! More regarding socks & road trip can be found on my blog.

~Heather R. / Arctic Knitter

Under the Wire...

Here is one pair of my socks completed for July. Hooray! Technically these were finished on July 28 while we were driving through British Columbia on our road trip back to Alaska. We just arrived home & I have access to the internet!

Details: Embossed Leaves Pattern from Interweave's Favorite Socks
Yarn: Regia Silk - sorry, during our 11,000 mile road trip, I lost the ball band
Needles: Size 2 Addi Turbo, Magic Loop Method
Modifications: Did not use the 1 x 1 cast on for sock #2 - not elastic enough.

**Love this yarn & these socks! More regarding socks & road trip can be found on my blog.

~Heather R. / Arctic Knitter

Hogwarts Socks

These were sent off to my partner in the first Hogwarts Sock Swap. More details can be found on my blog.
Laura
www.lalasknits.blogspot.com

June and July Socks!

These are the socks I finished at the tail end of June (please credit if it's not way too late--I did blog them, but I had no photo then). Cider Moon Glacier yarn in colorway Andromeda, size 2 Inox dpns. I used the Priscilla Gibson-Roberts toe and heel. I can't remember where I ordered this skein. I knit toe-up, and that's all the cuff I could squeeze out of the skein for my size 10.5 feet.

Mid-July socks from sKNITches self-striping yarn in "sKNITch," size 0 Inox dpns, P G-R toe and heel, toe-up. Great yarn. It's both pretty and excellent to work with. I got mine from The Sweet Sheep, who has great customer service and a wonderful yarn selection.

Late-July socks in Regia Cotton Surf color 5412 (probably no longer available, acquired in 2005, I think). Visible from space, they're so bright. knitted on a size 2 40" Addi turbo circular, Magic Loop method. The pattern is a free one (Tidal Wave) from Southwest Trading Company, designed to be used with the company's TOFUtsies yarn. I have a ball of TOFUtsies and started a pair with this pattern, but the yarn and I did not get along.

I'm looking forward to SAM KAL4 and am busily working on more socks!

Melissa, aka Ariadne's Thread

July Socka Socks!

Here is my July pair for the SAM3. They are for my Sockapalooza pal and will be traveling in a couple of days.

Cheers!

---Olivia

July Socks

Here's my last contribution for this knitalong: another pair of Hedera.



This was my first ever knitalong, and I had a lot of fun!

MJ
http://www.exartstudent.net/

My July Socks

Here's my brother's elderly cat who's come to live with me and who helped me finish the socks he's modeling.


Plain socks to complement my Mystery Stole 3 knit with Regia Mini Ringel Color in colorway 5219 (if Ferbe means color). Knit on US zeros, the strips line up nearly perfectly until the very tip of the toes, where one ends in dark blue and the other in red.

This knit-along has been great fun. Thanks everyone! VBG

Whoa!!

Sorry about all the repeat postings!! I am not sure what happened! Debora B

Under the wire!

Here are my July socks, just in time! I finished them about a week ago and have just put off getting them posted. They are from a sock of the month kit. Pattern Daylilies, and used Tufutsie yarn and size 1 needles- I broke a needle while knitting these!! More pictures of what I have been working on on my blog spot www.knit1together.blogspot.com.

Under the wire!

Here are my July socks, just in time! I finished them about a week ago and have just put off getting them posted. They are from a sock of the month kit. Pattern Daylilies, and used Tufutsie yarn and size 1 needles- I broke a needle while knitting these!! More pictures of what I have been working on on my blog spot www.knit1together.blogspot.com.

Under the wire!

Here are my July socks, just in time! I finished them about a week ago and have just put off getting them posted. They are from a sock of the month kit. Pattern Daylilies, and used Tufutsie yarn and size 1 needles- I broke a needle while knitting these!! More pictures of what I have been working on on my blog spot www.knit1together.blogspot.com.

Under the wire!

Here are my July socks, just in time! I finished them about a week ago and have just put off getting them posted. They are from a sock of the month kit. Pattern Daylilies, and used Tufutsie yarn and size 1 needles- I broke a needle while knitting these!! More pictures of what I have been working on on my blog spot www.knit1together.blogspot.com.

Under the wire!

Here are my July socks, just in time! I finished them about a week ago and have just put off getting them posted. They are from a sock of the month kit. Pattern Daylilies, and used Tufutsie yarn and size 1 needles- I broke a needle while knitting these!! More pictures of what I have been working on on my blog spot www.knit1together.blogspot.com.

Happy Socks

I call these my Happy Socks for several reasons. #1 I'm happy to be done with them #2 I happy to be rid of them. They were knit as a gift, but i just did not like the colors. #3 The recipient is happy with them. Very much so. It's inspired her to get knitting her own socks. #4 I'll be happy if I never knit with self striping yarn again. #5 My balls (yarn balls, that is) looked so happy after I saved them from sheer ugliness in one pattern, I frogged them and turned them into these Happy Socks. A simple 2 by 1 rib with short row toe and heel flap/gusset. I used to balls of Zitron Lifestyle. A great yarn to work with. This is my second pair. I would recommend the yarn even though I swore off self striping.
P.S. I keep attempting to load my photo and I can't so I will attempt again tomorrow. It is on my flicker account http://flickr.com/photos/74081485@N00/763434742/in/set-72157600044367278/

MAsh up madness socks for pal

Here are the infamous Sock Madness Final round socks. I thought this exclusive pattern would be perfect for the sockapalooza pal. :) Lorna's lace Glenwood. size #2 needles. if you want to see more got to http://needasock.blogspot.com/2007/07/here-it-is-wah-ha-ha-mash-up-madness.html

OOPS!

Here's the photo that was supoosed to be part of my Done! post below.

My Scarlet Fleece socks and Amy the kitten!

OOPS!

Here's the photo that was supoosed to be part of my Done! post below.

My Scarlet Fleece socks and Amy the kitten!

Sockapaloozas Finished!!

I am so pleased with these socks, which I have designed for my Sockapalooza pal. And I have also finished them with two hours to spare (UK time) to count for SAM3! Woo hoo!

Pattern: "Lone Star State Socks", my own design based on top-down with heel flap
Yarn: Angel Yarns Sock Yarn in Red, White and Blue
Needles: 2.5mm Addi DPNs

Nicola at Tales From The Plain (www.talesfromtheplain.blogspot.com)

Done!

Here is a photo of my July socks, as modeled by my kitten, Amy. It was knit with Holly Spring Homespun's (in Powatan, Virginia) own Scarlet Fleece. I made them for my husband!

I want to send out a BIG thank you! to Chrissy for starting this wonderful KAL. More big thanks to Karen and Stariel for being such wonderful co-hostesses, too! I'll be a hostess for the SAM KAL4 that begins tomorrow!

I hope y'all are having a great summer and I hope I'll see you tomorrow!!

Last but not least?

Pattern: Feather and Fan by Judith Sumner
Source: Socks, Socks, Socks
Yarn: Regia Silk 6-ply; color 0005
Needles: Knit Picks 24" circulars size 2.50mm (1 1/2US)

Details, additional photos. and modification notes are at this blog post.

~Kristie
GuiltyPleasures

Ruffle Rib Socks

Here are my July socks - small ones! I have actually knitted two odd adult sized socks aswell but only managed to complete a pair of baby socks.

These are Ruffle Rib socks from Interweave Knits Summer 2005 knitted in leftover Regia Miniringels.

Angie D

2 Pairs for July

I knit 2 1/2 pairs in July (my Sockapalooza socks are almost done):


These are Teosinte socks made with Black Bunny Fibers yarn.


My second pair was a plain stockinette pair of Gryffindor socks knit with dharmafey's cosmic fibers yarn

I had a great time with this knitalong. I'll probably see you for Sock a Month 4. Thank you Chrissy, Stariel and Karen, for being such great hosts!

Christine (threedogknits.blogspot.com)

2 pairs for July (last minute post ...)

Ok, not much, but still (considering I had an accident at the beginning of July) a nice set (by the way, I actually finished 3 pair this month the one of them went hiding and I have no pictures yet, still need to track down the socks!).




Pomatomus




Baudelaire


Out of laziness, for more info visit my blog!

July Socks

I joined the group very late -- just this month. This is my second pair of socks ever. I really enjoyed the yarn -- Trekking XXL colorway 108. I wish I had been able to get the striping to match instead of them being fraternal twins. The pattern was a quick and easy twin rib pattern.

Lisa

Rainbows in July

Yarn: Regia Nation #5399
Pattern:Jaywalkers by Grumperina

This is a second pair for July and I love 'em!

Heather M.

Galaxy socks

I just remembered that I hadn't posted my July socks yet!
Again simple stockinette socks, but I love the yarn and colorway. It's from the new Regia Galaxy line.

July Breeze

My July pair was a breeze. Breeze, that is from the summer 07 Knitty. I knit these with KnitPicks Bare yarn that I had dyed with kool-aid on KnitPicks 2.75mm needles. I don't like the way the colors turned out so I'm planning to overdye them with blue food coloring.
I've enjoyed being part of this kal, so I've signed up for samkal4. Hope to see you all there too!

Nilda

Finally a finished pair

My July socks are done, actually they wre done a couple of weeks ago but haven't had time to post them. I've got lots of nearly finished pairs too so fingers crossed, there maybe a whole load of socks to show for August.

My July socks

In July I finished two pairs of socks.

The first one goes to my Sockapalooooza pal and I really hope that she will like these socks:



The second pair is just for me and it is the first time that I "designed" a pattern on my own. I used hand-painted yarn from Wollmeise, called Miss May:



Karin

Last for July

I wasn't sure I would finish these before the end of the month! They are for my son and he was quite excited to have his first hand knitted socks from Mom.

Pattern: 2 X 2 Rib
Yarn: Lana Grossa Meilenweit Fantasy

Cynthia

July Socks

Well here they are ! My final contribution to this SAM3. I came upon this KAL late and only joined in March . I've knit a pair of socks for every month except June. Life got in the way that month . I've constantly been amazed at the variety of patterns and yarns that have been knit up . I'll be continuing on for The SAM4 and look forward to seeing the efforts of the next batch of KALers .

Details: Math Whiz socks by Anne Hanson of Knitspot . The yarn is Opal Neon , colour 1931 . I knit them with 2mm DPNs . The only change I made was that I substituted a heel flap heel for the short row heel called for in the pattern. I can't do a decent short row heel to save my life ! These are intended for my sock pal in the Sockapalooza 4 . Loved the pattern and will probably knit it again .

My apologies for not providing the links . I still haven't figured out how to make a link in the blog post . If anyone cares to enlighten me , I'd be happy to accept your help . Thanks !

my blog : http://restlessneedles.blogspot.com

July Finished!

I have a pair of socks done!!! WOOT!!! I actually finished these about a week and a half ago, but tried posting, and it didn't work. Unfortunatley, I do not have a picture. They are my SockaPalooza pal's socks! They are done with Henry's Attic Kona yarn and US 3 circs. They are my own pattern, and I love that they are DONE!!!

Hugs,
tammy

Tidal Wave

I've been slow in posting these - but here are my Tidal Wave socks from Tofutsies, finished in July! I have a lot of Tofutsies left over, so if I'm as hooked on this yarn as I suspect I will be I'll need to come up with other things to do with Tofutsies, or find some children who need soysilk socks. It's a really pretty yarn, and knits up quickly.

These were the May/June socks for my LYS Sock Club. I even won a kit to make a second pair at May's meeting!

Laura at My Dog Has Fleece

2nd Pair for July!

Wow, I managed to finish another pair of socks this month. Good thing, too, because these are for my Sockapalooza pal & we need to send them out this week, I think. :D



The pattern is Periwinkle Socks by Lisa Dykstra, and I used the called-for Panda Cotton, in the Strawberry-Lime colorway. The pattern is super easy and was very simple to remember, and I like the length of the cuff, despite usually being a short-cuff girl. The yarn is a joy to work with, and I tried the 1st sock on when I finished it just to see if I'd like it enough to make some of my own. I do. :) I will be knitting this pattern, and with this yarn, again in the future. :) The yarn doesn't break the bank (I paid $6.75 for a ball... so $13.50 for a pair!), either, so if you're on a budget, I think it would work for you. I knit these for a US Size 7, though, and had about 6g total left of yarn, so if your feet are bigger than that, I'd get a 3rd ball just in case (might be able to get away w/ knitting a 7.5 out of it, but it'd be pushing it!).

Manda
(x-posted from my blog.)

Roses and Ivy

This is my second pair for July. It is a toe up version of Cookie A's Hedera pattern. The variegated yarn doesn't show off the stitch pattern to its best advantage but I still like the results. It is a really fun and easy pattern to knit - I like it so much I will have to knit is again in a solid color yarn. For full details see my blog.
Happy Knitting
~tabitha

July Zephyr socks

I finished my July socks a couple of weeks ago, so it's about time I got around to posting them!!

These are Zephyr Socks from Domesticat, knit with Cherry Tree Hill Supersock. You can find out more at my blog. And I hope to see you all for Sock A Month 4!!

Karen

waiting almost 'til the last minute

Well, I'm happy to say that I get to count my July socks twice - first for SAM3 and also for Sockapalooooza4! :)

These are the Chalet Socks from Folk Socks by Nancy Bush. I used about 105 grams of Lorna's Laces Shepherd Sport (so about 1.5 skeins) in Bold Red. My gauge was a bit tighter than that required for the pattern, I ended up getting between 8 and 8.5 spi on size 2.75 mm needles. It still ended up being quite roomy.

Jaya

Finally Finished

My July Socks seemed to take forever, but they are finally done:
Details can be found on my blog. Looking forward to SAM KAL4.

Finished ~ July Socks

Hi All

Here are my finished socks for July...



Pattern: Canterbury Dash (my own)

Click for more details

OzKnitter
http://ozknitter.blogspot.com

FINISHED!!

finished my sox about 8 pm

pattern available Aug 1

details about the sox on my blog

July Finish

I'm finally to post my socks that I finished this month. They are based on LynneH's Fast Florida Footies. I changed the gauge and used Regia Jaquard. I then added a couple of rows of K1P1 ribbing after row 8, and also changed the foot to all knit. DD is very pleased with how they turned out.

Thanks for looking!
Theresa aka Tweezle of Tweezle's Explorations

July Socks

I finally finished another pair of socks. I had been trying to get a pair done a month but it hasn't worked that way lately. I made them with Seacoast Yarns Royalty colorway, using the Garter Stitch Rib from Sensational Knitted Socks on No. 1 Knitpicks circulars.

My July Breeze socks!

Here are my July Breeze anklets. I really had fun with this pattern, as I've never seen such a fancy pair of footies before this came along! These are for and modeled above by my daughter, Brittany.
Pattern: Breeze

Yarn: Knit Picks Palette

Color: Petal
Needles: US size 2, set of four

I'm gonna cast on another pair this evening for my other daughter, and should get them done in time for the August SAM 4.

Did you notice how much yarn from that little 50 gr. ball I had left over. Looks like enough for about 1/3 of another sock!

Tina in Wonderland

Solstice Slip Socks

Pattern: Solstice Slip socks, designed by JC Briar exclusively for the Blue Moon Rockin' Sock Club
Yarn: Less than one skein of Blue Moon Socks That Rock (lightweight) in Firebird
Needles: Addi Turbos US 1 (2.5 mm)
Modifications: Knit an eye of partridge heel flap over 35 stitches, knit the foot with 60 stitches instead of 65, wedge toe.
Date Started: July 1, 2007
Date Completed: July 28, 2007
Time: 9 hours for the first sock, 9.25 for the second for a total of 18.25 hours

Kris
Kris Crafts!

July, and I am spent!!!!!

Woo hoo! I finished my July socks!!! (I totally just wrote this post and it malfunctioned and deleted it, grrrr blogger!) Anyways, I did all 6 pairs and I am proud of myself, but I don't think I will join the next round. I didn't like the "pressure" of having to finish by the end of the month. It made me hold off on more complicated patterns. I will definitely continue to watch, since I love seeing what everyone else is up to! Ok, so here are my socks!

Stats:
Yarn: Claudia’s Handpainted - Blue Fields
Pattern: Sockbug’s River Rapids
Needles: Size 2 DPNs
Started: June 24, 2007
Completed: July 27, 2007

I think that these are my favorite socks yet! They fit wonderfully! They go great with jeans! I started these on vacation out west in Wyoming and South Dakota. They really mirrored the colors of the landscape, which I really enjoyed! I love when things match!

Diana : www.photodee.com/blog

Monkey Off My Back

Yeay! Just made it barely in time. I would have finished sooner, but... details on my blog.

-Chelsea