Another Mystery Sock!

Yarn Cake, originally uploaded by throughtheloops.

It's time to wind all of your sock yarn into pretty little yarn cakes. Socktoberfest is one week away!

After a bit of gentle nudging from the kind folks who visit the Through the Loops group on Ravelry, I've decided to do another Mystery Sock KAL again this year.

I sat down to swatch on Monday, and a day and a half later I had a sock. I hope it's as much fun to knit as it was to design.

The first clue will go up here on my blog on Thursday, October 1 at 9 am (ish). I hope you join us!

ETA:

Details!

The pattern is free. It will be offered in 5 parts: the cuff, the leg, the heel, the foot and the toe. I will post a new part here on my blog every Thursday during the month of October.

The pattern is worked in fingering weight yarn. I used Schaefer Yarns Nichole for the original design. (By the way, this stuff is really lovely to work with and the semi solid colorways show patterning really nicely.)

I worked the sample on a US #2 (2.75mm) needle. Relaxed the sock measures 6” it will stretch to fit 9.5”.

My gauge is 29 sts=4” (10cm) in stockinette.

My sock used a 64 stitch cast on. I will try to adapt it for 68 sts & 60 sts. But I can’t make any promises until I play with the charts a bit.

I will offer both charts and written instructions for the stitch patterns.

There will be prizes. The winner(s) will be chosen from a random drawing of those who complete their pair by the end of November. More details to follow.

That’s all I can think of for now.

Comments

[darlene]

i am so excited, marking my calendar!

[amanda]

Cannot wait! You know it is killing Lily that I'll get a 4 hour head start on her for this as she's not home from school until 4ish! :D :D

[Karen]

Love that green!

[Pat]

Yayyyy - can't wait :-)

[Amy]

yahoo!!!! no broken arm this time!!

[Preeti]

Ooh, excited about this year's mystery pattern and that is one gorgeous cake of yarn!!

[Lolly]

You are so generous and so fun! I am very happy that you are doing it again, K :D

[Tracey]

that sounds like fun! do we have to belong to a specific ravelry group to participate and enter our completed sock?

[Jennifer]

I so want to do this! I've never joined a KAL before...is there anything specific I need to do to join, and to be eligible for the draw at the end?

I LOVE the green you're using!

[Kathy]

Kirsten -- I'm picking out the yarn tonight... any word on how much yarn two pair will take? My stash choices are limited at 400... Thanks!

[Paige]

Thank you for doing this - I've got my yarn wound and at the ready for tomorrow a.m.! Yay!

[minnesota:madre]

This was NOT on my knitting list, but after falling upon it, it might just have to be. So fun.

[jessica]

I am completely game--my goal is to knit both socks at the same time!!

[Leonie]

Have never done a mystery knit along but I need a new pair of socks for me so why not?? Pretty sure I have an appropriate yarn somewhere around here!

[Elizabeth]

After one failed sock attempt and one half-finished sock attempt, I'm ready to take up the dpns again and give the excitement of mystery (and peer pressure) a go. I'm very excited for installment one and thank you for leading such a fun KAL!

[Allison]

I'm excited! I usually suck at KALs, but I'm hoping I'll be able to handle this one since my life has calmed a bit at the moment...

[Carrie S.]

Oh wow, this sounds fun! I'm thinking I may want to play along!

[Trisha]

I just heard about this on another blog I read so I came over to check it out. Sounds so fun! I am excited to get started. Off to shop my stash!