Mystery Sock Has Begun!
I was honored to have Debi invite me to design the mystery sock for March for Sock Knitter’s Anonymous this year. The theme was lace, which is a fairly natural theme for me as I probably have a bit more lace socks in my design portfolio (Rav link) than anything else. I had a blast designing for it. Doing a mystery sock pattern sets a whole new set of criteria to be considered while designing - in particular, how do you mix up each clue so people can’t guess what the next step is going to entail? It was fun to have to work with a different set of constraints so to speak.
The first clue went live on Sunday at midnight eastern time and I am having a blast seeing everyone’s first clue take shape (Rav link). It might also become hard on my pocketbook as I’m finding more and more sock yarn that I would love to have living in my stash :-)
It’s not too late to take part. The next clue won’t be posted until this coming Sunday and there were people with clue 1 completed for both socks within ~24 hours of the clue going live. Posts with links to the clues and general chatter about the pattern and yarns being used etc. can be found in the Sockdown! March Mystery Socks thread at the SKA group on Ravelry. The pattern has 4 sizes and gauges from 6-9 sts/in to fit a wide range of sizes.
The little peek in the photo at the top of the post is my first test sock knit in Miss Babs Yummy Sport weight in Verdigris using the 56 sts pattern. One skein gave me two socks for US9.5 feet with a 3 repeat leg if I’m remembering correctly.
