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Socks!

Every year, at Christmas, it is tradition in my house that my children (although young adults now) get a pair of hand knit socks in their Christmas Stocking. 

Finding exciting cables and lace patterned socks is easy, but as they are growing up and getting "mainstream" jobs, their tastes in socks has been drifting more to "what can I wear with this suit" or "really I need some smoother socks to wear with my work boots".  I find that knitting plain vanilla socks, while it sounds like a perfect solution to their needs, makes my eyes glaze over and the knitting take forever!

So I needed enough patterning to keep me interested, but for it to be subtle enough to make them happy!

Enter Pop Song Socks....

Having a musical theme for some of my other sock patterns...see Disco Tuned, Knot Tuned the Ballet, Knot Tuned the Symphony, Fine Tuned and Simple Melody,.. which were all prior years Christmas socks, it seemed natural to turn to the Easy Listening Station in my designer's playlist in my head.

Great for the men (or women) in your life who have definite ideas of what is "too much" patterning these socks can be purchased now from Knotions!

(All photos above copyright Kellie Nuss Photography for Knotions)

And my submission photo...

In Times to Come

Ever wanted to be able to preview knitting patterns before they are official published?

I have several patterns that are so close to being ready for publication, but before I do that I would love to have a knitter or three knit them as well.

What you get : A free copy of the pattern to work from.  A designated thread in my Ravelry group to ask questions, give feedback and share progress pictures. 

Right now I have open slots for testing of this shawl...

Find out more here..linky


Soon I will be looking for testers for these additional projects...

~M

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