This year, sponsored by NUMMA NUMMA! That's right, all the prizes this year are fabulous Numma Numma socks yarns, several of which are either unreleased or hotly sought after colors.
Saucy 'Minty Fresh'
From the new "Cake" line, Red Velvet Cake Self-Striping. I saw the prototype sock, and it is FABULOUS!
Toasty Treat 'Whiny Butt.' I hear this one is snapped up as soon as it appears for sale online. Well, this skein isn't going anywhere until one of you wins it.
So, here's the details (Edited to add - the contest will run until midnight Eastern time, Sunday, Sept. 28th):
Part One
- Leave a comment with the name of your favorite sock pattern. This is your "go to" pattern, the one you love the most, the one you think of when you want to give a gift.
- Also, leave a link to the pattern. It can be a freebie, for sale online, or in a book.
- Then, SHOW ME YOUR SOCK! It should be in the pattern you are linking, if possible. But you know how easy I am with contests, and so if you have given away all your favorite socks, show me a photo, draw a picture, or just tell me a good story about why you don't have a picture.
- The second skein of yarn will be given for the very best picture of your sock. Be creative!
Part Two
- I know not everyone knits socks (horrors!!) But this "sock" yarn also makes up into very pretty shawls, so if you are not a sock knitter, and can't show me either your socks or a pattern you might consider knitting into socks, enter anyway. The third skein will go to someone who is, so far, a non-sock knitter.
To get you started, here is a link to one of my very favorite sock patterns - Melanie's Twist.
I love this pattern! It's fun to knit and does wonders with variegated and self-striping yarns.
Now, let's see those links, because I need some new sock inspiration! Oh, and don't forget, if you don't win a prize (and even if you do,) Numma Numma yarn can be found in her Etsy store, at Knitch, and at the Loopy Ewe. Go get some!
I am submitting my own personal pattern for your contest. It's almost deadline, but I finally got some time to pull a post together. The pattern is in the post.
http://chickenknit.blogspot.com/2008/09/showing-jane-my-sock.html
Posted by: The Chickengoddess | September 28, 2008 at 11:18 PM
my go-to sock is broad ripple from Knitty -
http://knitty.com/issuesummer03/PATTbroadripple.html
here are my aussie olympic coloured pair:
http://susaninstitches.blogspot.com/2008/08/marathon-effort.html
currently working on another pair and planning yet another
Posted by: catsmum | September 28, 2008 at 10:30 PM
Well, I tend to use a basic toe up (that's right, Jane, I said TOE UP) on circulars AND magic loop! I adjust the stitch count to accommodate the stitch pattern, often borrowed from other sock patterns.
My basic pattern is adapted from
Sensational Knitted Socks by Charlene Schurch.
Here is a sample:
http://www.ravelry.com/projects/Dyetom/gentlemans-half-hose-in-ringwood-pattern
Thanks for the contest, Jane!
Posted by: Diana | September 28, 2008 at 06:33 PM
hey Jane,
My favorite sock pattern is a 64 st sock and I just find different patterns that I can use with that amount of sts.
So that's it,
Remember I picked your name!!
Hope to see you soon,
Haley
Posted by: Haley | September 28, 2008 at 04:30 PM
I've never knit the same pattern twice for adult socks, so instead I'll offer you my favorite baby socks, the Baby Fixation Socks: http://members.aol.com/_ht_a/sojustask/babyfixation1.html?mtbrand=AOL_US
And a link to the first pair I ever knit: http://www.spritewrites.net/images/knit/stripedbabysocks.jpg
Posted by: sprite | September 28, 2008 at 07:51 AM
well, i guess for creativity i suck.. unless you count the fact that i made my own sock blockers from old wire hangers, lol. My fav pattern is so mindless and a good old standby for basic socks. the pattern honestly came from the class i took for socks. As a self taught knitter turning the heel kicked my butt, so i took my first class... loved it! i can put this pattern away and so know where i left off! link here: http://turtleslakeknitting.blogspot.com/
Posted by: Tanya | September 27, 2008 at 10:21 PM
Here is a link to my contest entry
http://neveradullmomentforlynn.blogspot.com/2008/09/s-is-for.html
It was a part of my letter S. Scroll down a bit to see it.
Now that I've pared my sock yarn down a bit, I sure could use some new stuff!! LOL
Posted by: Lynn | September 27, 2008 at 03:45 PM
I love the spring forward socks on knitty
http://knitty.com/ISSUEsummer08/PATTspringforward.html They were easy and fun and heres my pic of them http://uberstrickenfrau.blogspot.com/2008/07/weird-wednesday.html
I would make these again no promblem!!
Posted by: olga | September 26, 2008 at 01:09 PM
I'm working my way through my first sock and it's Baudelaire from knitty.com (designed by Cookie A).
First time with sock/toe up/charts/magic loop. I started it a year ago and I'm still trying to finish it!
Blogged about it here:
http://5elementknitr.blogspot.com/2008/09/i-haz-foot.html
Posted by: 5elementknitr | September 26, 2008 at 11:47 AM
The pattern I tend to fall back on is Feather and Fan pattern from "Socks, Socks, Socks!".
http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/feather--fan-socks
Posted by: Heide | September 26, 2008 at 09:09 AM
My windowpane socks are pretty fun -- see my ravelry projects page:
http://www.ravelry.com/projects/wenat/windowpane-socks
I figured out the length of one repeat of the colour, and then did mitered squares that each used up one repeat -- it ended up looking like windowpanes!
I also sprinkled some mitered squares into the foot of the sock to break up the pooling of the yarn (STR in Husky).
Posted by: Gladys | September 25, 2008 at 04:25 PM
Since I designed these myself and I think they are really special here's my vote: my Crystals,'Combs and Cables Socks!
Here's my Rav link:
http://www.ravelry.com/projects/FluffyKnitterDeb/crystals-combs-and-cables-socks
The beads are optional but they a pretty easy knit with lots of pizazz and a great fitting garter stitch heel with mini flap and gusset!
Enjoy :)
Posted by: Debi | September 25, 2008 at 07:30 AM
I'll bite.
Monkeys!
http://knitty.com/issuewinter06/PATTmonkey.html
but with a picot edge:
http://www.claudiasblog.net/2007/09/monkey_monkey_whos_got_the_mon.html
Posted by: claudia | September 24, 2008 at 10:07 PM
Well you know what my go-to pattern is. It's my own plain sock, top-down, sometimes with ribbing, sometimes with a picot. It's what I almost always knit. Here's the pattern link:
http://mousepotato.typepad.com/lorettessockpattern.pdf
Here's one photo:
http://mousepotato.typepad.com/finishedprojects/2008/07/eire-socks.html
And another:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/57294011@N00/2886206052/
Posted by: Lorette | September 24, 2008 at 05:51 PM
My favorite pattern is the Ampersand pattern located here:
http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/ampersand
Nothing fancy about my pictures, but here are the ones I made:
http://www.ravelry.com/projects/Karenc/ampersand-2
and
http://www.ravelry.com/projects/Karenc/ampersand
Posted by: Karen | September 24, 2008 at 04:03 PM
The pair of socks that I've made more than once are the socks from Handknit Holidays. I think the pattern name is Log Cabin Socks. I made them with the Cascade Pastaza and they are my favorite 'house socks'. Here is a picture of the ones I made over the Thanksgiving holiday 2 years ago. I don't own the book and I couldn't find the pattern in Ravelry, which seems odd, so I may have the name wrong.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3214/2885459670_8bd6750993_o.jpg
Posted by: Doug | September 24, 2008 at 12:13 PM
My favorite sock pattern:
http://www.burninghand.org/sockpattern.html
It is the first one that I used, and I return to it constantly when using any pattern as a guideline. My most recent socks based on that pattern: http://www.ravelry.com/projects/spinsterbat/picot-eyelet-socks
and another
http://www.ravelry.com/projects/spinsterbat/socks-2
Posted by: Rose | September 23, 2008 at 11:55 PM
I'm entering in the non-sock-knitting category. Tiny needles hurt my hands :-( so I'm determined to try a sock loom: http://www.decoraccentsinc.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=SK-002 and I promise to try if I win your sock yarn :-)
Li
Posted by: Li_B | September 23, 2008 at 11:19 PM
My favorite? Deb Barnhill's Back To Basics socks. When you've done enough lace and frills and eyelet holes and shell scoops, and you need something elegant yet absolutely ingenious, these socks with ribs emerging from a top-of-the-foot gusset are soooo satisfying.
Link to Knitty pattern: http://knitty.com/ISSUEfall07/PATTbacktobasics.html
Link to a photograph of my very own Koigu PPPM version overlooking the San Diego waterfront:
http://picasaweb.google.com/donnadb/BlogElements#5134053912420154194
Posted by: Donna B. | September 23, 2008 at 09:05 PM
red velvet? ok. i'll bite. RVC is my favorite cake of all time. now there's a colorway? my fav sock pattern is pretty boring, safe, and easy as pie. that's why i make it over and over again. it's from the Ann Budd book; Basic Sock Pattern. But i'm really dying, and trying, to knit a pair of monkey socks.
here's the photo: http://potlikker.typepad.com/bekka/2008/09/corn-nuggety-socks.html
here's the book it's from: http://www.interweave.com/knit/books/knitters_handy.asp
Posted by: bekka | September 23, 2008 at 10:59 AM
Oh Jane! Sadly I have knit only 2 pair of socks this year. I'm a sock slacker.
Posted by: margene | September 23, 2008 at 10:06 AM
I use this basic recipe:
http://www.diynetwork.com/diy/na_knitting/article/0,,DIY_14141_5489009,00.html , either plain or 2x2 ribbed,
with the short row garter heel that Haley taught me, and a garter toe.
Um, I don't know how to link from flikr, so, will send another comment when I do.
I just cast on Hypnosis from The Eclectic Sole.
Posted by: Nell | September 23, 2008 at 08:44 AM
I was going to link to Los manos Locos (the toe-up, no purl Monkey pattern I have knit eleventy-billion times, but I see that has already been done, lol. So I will go with my other fave go-to pattern, Charade, which I have also knit eleventy-billion times (including two pairs in Numma numma that I haven't photographed yet!).
Pattern link;
http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/charade
One of my Charades;
http://www.ravelry.com/projects/Kellie/charade
But my fave sock photo is of a pair of Monkey socks;
http://www.ravelry.com/projects/Kellie/monkey
Posted by: Kellie | September 23, 2008 at 07:05 AM
I am a Monkey fan (http://www.knitty.com/issuewinter06/PATTmonkey.html). I've knit 4 pairs - 2 for sock swaps and 2 for myself. I am not tired of knitting them. Here are some pictures of my monkey monkeying around with monkey socks:
http://bp1.blogger.com/_KlJ19K-um3k/Rtc5zzDhAYI/AAAAAAAAACU/R6DElkLz1Bw/s1600-h/manic+monkey.jpg
http://bp0.blogger.com/_KlJ19K-um3k/RuGLTSD4IvI/AAAAAAAAACc/Z-oVtx5GMe4/s1600-h/monkey+wearing+monkey.jpg
http://bp2.blogger.com/_KlJ19K-um3k/R-04ZMon61I/AAAAAAAAAGk/EohX7pG9YZw/s1600-h/monkey+sox1.jpg
Posted by: Dotty | September 23, 2008 at 02:11 AM
OK - my currently favorite sock pattern is "La Digitessa" by Yarnissima. I love how she designed the sock - it has lot of Bavarian twisted stitches and cables. I finished sock no. 1 a while ago and I am all the way through the heel on sock no. 2, knitted toe up. Sorry Jane...
Here is a link to the pattern:
http://shop.strato.com/epages/61452880.sf/en_US/?ObjectPath=/Shops/61452880/Products/SPD01
And here is a link to a picture of the sock I knitted:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bavgirl/2542388888/
It is not really a fancy picture. But at least it is on a Bavarian balcony at my best friend's apartment in Munich. ;-)
Posted by: Claudia | September 23, 2008 at 01:18 AM
I seem to come back to Sockbug's River Rapids Socks time and time again http://files.blog-city.com/files/aa/3830/b/river_rapids.pdf. I can think of at least 3 pairs I've knit. Truly my favorite if "fancy socks" are called for but I'd much rather just knit boring socks anymore.
The only shot of these I can find is pathetic but they are among my oldest socks!http://www.ravelry.com/projects/JACTTD/river-rapids-socks, knit maybe 2004 at the latest and still among my favorites to wear.
Posted by: Jill | September 22, 2008 at 11:51 PM
My favorite pattern is The Baby Cable Rib pattern in Charlene Schurch's book Sensational Knitted Socks. I don't even have to think what I'm doing when I knit socks with this pattern, which is what I need to do most of the time! Always toe-up, on either 1 or 2 circs.
Here is a link to the pair I made for my daughter.
http://www.ravelry.com/projects/Pusstatmine/baby-cable-rib-2
Posted by: Phyllis | September 22, 2008 at 10:43 PM
I saw this posted on the nummanumma board on Ravelry.I adore Allen's yarns.They are just so fab.My favorite socks I have ever knit are the Saucy Socks from Cider Moon.I knit them for a swap and used nummanumma Saucy.Here is the link to my project page!
http://www.ravelry.com/projects/LaVerna/saucy-socks-2
Posted by: La Verna | September 22, 2008 at 10:24 PM
wheeeeeee! sock contest!!!
I believe my current fav pattern, the one I could make again and again, would be Monkeys...BUT the TOE UP VERSION!!!
http://tinyurl.com/52yvs6
And here is Sadie modeling my lovely monos locos. She's such a good girl!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/evilsciencechick/2284838587/
(hmmm, you're blog doesn't allow html comments! I can't link!!! I'll try to paste the links, I guess)
Posted by: evilsciencechick | September 22, 2008 at 10:18 PM