Socks on Holiday Winners!

Congratulations to our tied winners, KMS and Rosie!

We had some fabulous entries and were delighted to see such creativity for the Socks on Holiday contest.

Both our winners will win a skein of merino sock yarn from The Knittery, kindly donated by Daphne.

Winners, please email us with your postal address.

Stay tuned for the next contest that RoseRed and I have planned.

It's also worth noting that there's only the remainder of March left fo SSoS! How it's flown by! Get ready to tally up at the end of the month and see who has made the most socks.

Also, the Can Assist project continues. Leave a comment to let us know if you think you will have some socks ready in the next month or so.

Bells & Rose Red.

Taking care of business

Can Assist
First up, thanks to everyone who put their hands up for joining in on the Can Assist sock donation project. If you listen to the podcast, Sticks and String, you'd have heard David mention the project, quite in isolation of what we're doing, so it seems there's some movement afoot on this and people are getting in on the act, wanting to help out Cancer patients.

We don't have answers to all the questions asked but plan to find out. So please continue to either choose socks from your collection or knit dedicated socks and we'll get back to you as soon as we can.

Socks on Holidays
We have only a smattering of entries to the Socks On Holidays contest. Entries close 15 February. If you have a picture of your sock/s reclining on beach, climbing a mountain, bushwalking or taking in a different city, click the link above for contest details and send them in by 15 February!

We are about to advertise another competition too, so stay tuned!

Award
Passionate sock knitting convert, Carol, nominated us for the You Make My Day award. Carol's blog is a wonderful place. Go say hello and check out her near encounter with skinny dipping! Thanks Carol! Love your work!

That'll be all for now. Happy sock knitting!

Bells & RoseRed

Fast and simple!

Introducing my first and second pairs of socks EVER!
(I knit a single ages ago but these are my first pairs!!!)



These guys are, knit from patons jet (just under a ball per sock), on 5mm (purple) and 6mm (grey) needles, from the Clafoutis Bedsocks pattern - as recommended by Taph.



As the title suggests, these were really simple, and super fast - perfect bus knitting.

They look kinda funny here, with the ribbing all skinny, but they're fine with a foot in them =)

Being so quick and easy these were the perfect project to kick off my knitting for Can Assist =)

Can you Assist?

Hi all,
With the help of the lovely Bells and Rose Red I've been making plans for the Can Assist sock drive project.

Can Assist aren't just looking for socks - you can also help by donating chemo caps, scarfs, blankets or any other nurturing item.

You can find out more at my blog, but let me tell you about the prizey side....

The knitters who donate the most socks and the most items to Can Assist between February 6 and May 2 will each receive a grand prize pack, including one year's subscription to their choice of the following magazines:
- Interweave Knits
- Interweave Crochet
- Vogue Knitting
- Yarn Magazine

as well as some yummy yarn and other fibre-crafty goodies!

You can contact the SSoS girls for more info, or email me at kraftykukaATgmailDOTcom (replace the AT and DOT though, ok)

Hope you can help =)