Blog Contest - win my new BOOK on CD !

ok, LOL, you have to go to the other blog SiriusKnitting to enter the contest, but i promise, we'll have one here soon too!

go to the blog and leave a comment on the Contest blogpost. the drawing will be at 12:01 am pst jan 24.
we'll draw names and award prize(s) on Valentine's Day.

PS all the designs in the book feature Crystal Palace Yarns. so, to that end, we're having a KAL on RAV - voting to pick 2 patterns to work on together. Prizes for knitting the sock with CP yarns too!
50 Socks group on RAV

Rhode Island

These pics are for the Rhode Island sock. It was designed by KyleAnn Williams

50 Socks - 50 States Book - Montana

Montana Bitterroot socks by Denise Henderly

Lupines for Maine

This is the sneak peek of the cuff chart for the Maine Lupine's sock by Helen Pope. ShadowDancer

Oh My!
spectacular to say the least! and potentially we will have to buy her some zoloft after she finishes these.
oh my, i am amazed. impressed, awed... and wowowow!

pics from new book featuring CPY

Just sharing... rec'd my designer's copy of new book "Tops&Toes" from House of White Birches - you can find online at "Annie's Attic".

I have 5 designs in it

a boy's hat = Tiger Stripes knit in Aran Aran colors

a child's hat & socks set knit in Bamboozle BamboozleColors

a baby's hat & socks set knit in Panda Silk PandaSilkColors

Blog Addies for 50 Socks - 50 States

Hey folks

first, you can tell by the name that the book will have 50 socks & i think i've let the cat out of the bag, and revealed we will have more than 50 designs.

so, next = authors & where to find out more.

Jackie Erickson-Schweitzer is doing Louisiana and Canada HeartstringsFiberArts [look for wonderfully inspired lace and beads!]

some of us are alsobeginning to blog about it

me: http://socksandmorewithcpy.blogspot.com
LOL, that's here!

Terry Ross: TerryRossDesigns

Helen Pope: ShadowDancer

KyleAnn Williams:KnittingWithKyleAnn

Debbie Haymark: EmbellishKnits

Adrienne Fong: Bellybuttonknits

Becky Yoder:SunnybookYarns

Kala Patterson: VeganCraftastic


I've shown you sneak peeks by several of these folks, and will post more soon.

What am i doing myself??

i am working on DE (ladybug toddler cuffed socks)

FL

NY - Vassar College and the Shakespearean Garden

DC (smithsonian or .....)

SD (first peoples)

it's turning out to be hectic and fun too!

Oregon Sneak Peek!

I used to live in oregon - during my postdoctoral days at Oregon Graduate Center, which became Oregon Graduate Institute, which merged with Oregon Health Sciences University, and now is about to be "submerged" and defunct.
Anyway, we lived first in Beaverton [home of Nike] and Hillsboro and it was glorious. this was '82 to '90. more rainbows in a month than many places have in years, and the world's best "eating"....

Cindy Peek is the designer for the Oregon sock ... it's being knit in DK Panda Silk, and here's a
preview!

O......Oklahoma

These are preliminary scans of the "Okie-bug" design for Oklahoma, by Jan Miraglio whose blog is Caffinna

Can you hear the musical theme?

Pretty Baby

I don't know the design name for these socks yet, but they're for a sweet baby girl and the State of Georgia.
lovely summery cotton socks.... by KyleAnn W knittingwithkyleann

Hiking anyone?

This lovely,
er um "handsome" man's sock is a hiking sock for Pennsylvania.

It's another from the super-fast (circs only, thank you Ma'am) needles of KyleAnn W
knittingwithkyleann


are you getting excited about "50 Socks - 50 States" yet??

blessings, :L

dessert anyone??

Isn't this a beauty? It's called "banana cream pie" and was designed by KyleAnn Williams KnittingwithKyleann for West Virginia.
Wonderful story about family, and **cross fingers ** a recipe in the sock book too!

Update 1: "50 Socks - 50 States"

More about the book:

when you get the 50 States - 50 Socks book, you will discover a BONUS ....

we also included Canada & Mexico, as well as Puerto Rico & Guam and a "secret sock" too!

you'll have to see when you see the book!

Today's Sneak Peek is from Helen Pope "Needledancer". Her blog is Shadowdancer
This is the Illinois Prairie State Sock

50 Socks - 50 States

Michigan Two-Season Boot Socks by Terry L Ross TerryRossDesigns
Leta's & Susannah's Amish quilt socks [one in fingering - one dk] designed by Becky Yoder SunnybookYarns and expertly knit by Samantha F.

Wonderful new design Kaleidoscope Socks by Radka Chamberlain - you can see more of her spectacular knitting here Radka-Knits.

Hi folks,

Exciting News!

Here are just a few of the socks that will be featured in our forthcoming book"50 Socks - 50 States".
This huge multi-sock, multi-designer book will be released ONLY on CD, with previews at the June TNNA show.

The Publisher, Dr. Laura Andersson of Sirius Knitting Publications www.SiriusKnitting.com is collaborating with Susan Druding & Crystal Palace Yarns, who will also be distributors.

"50 Socks - 50 States" is Volume 3 of the "Friendly Socks" series of books, which are multi-designer compilations - bet you will find some of your fave on-line designers here!

The CD will include sock designs that cover the full gamut of imaginative sock fun

ribbing, beading, cables, cuffs, fair isle, intarsia, and lace

with novel sock construction, directions for socks including top-down, toe-up, double-pointed needles & both 1- & 2-circs

diverse sizes too! socks for infants, babies, toddlers, children, teens, women, & men as well as at least one holiday stocking!

You will SOON be able to find more pictures and details at http://SocksandMorewithCPYblogspot.com and
> http://siriusknitting.blogspot.com, as well as on www.Straw.com and here on my own blog.

The CD-only release will run $19.95 (plus shipping, where applicable) and can be obtained from many yarn shops

as well as from Dr Laura proflaura@firststepinternet.com or drlaura@siriusknitting.com

We'll keep you posted!

ps, DrLaura will be going on a "blog tour" shortly - as she's just been invited for a blog interview with Terry Ross at

http://terryrossdesigns.blogspot.com/ - let us know if you want to play too!

More Socks .... Thinking Pink!

These first two pics are of the Menehune sock (featured in the newest Patternworks catalog!) and designed by Adrienne Fong for either Panda Wool or Panda Cotton.

The lovely Crystalline Lattice socks by Janice Kang are knit in Panda Wool
The Peppermint Panda sock here is my design (Laura A- SiriusKnitting) featuring Panda Cotton in one of the newest Dotty Pink colorways
Finally, here below is a mini-cable sock in Merino 5



The white model is one I knit; the other was knit by Bianca Becker.

Panda Cotton Lily Lace & Frogs

Great Panda Cotton Lace by Suzi who plans to make these into frog socks with frog on theheel. looooove the lace!





Frog socks reminds me of course of frog socks by KyleAnn in our 2nd book of the Friendly socks set [available from me at Sirius Knitting ]












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p.s. i'd also love to know how to make the email link LIVE.

blessings, :L
ixil