SOS Update–Week 11
Short and sweet, my knitting friends. Enjoy!
Beth / Bossygirl
From Jess’ group:
Karen says: I finished 2 pair this week (that makes 6 all together). The first pair can be found here http://yearnsforyarn.blogspot.com/2007/08/busy-week.html some very lovely CTH Serengeti and the second pair here http://yearnsforyarn.blogspot.com/2007/08/mandy-has-back-to-school-blues.html this is Trekking 161 knit plain. They both have some of the same colors but thank goodness look totally different.
…and Kairi has finished another pair!
From April’s group:
Just a brief update this week, guys. Sock talk seems to have slowed just a bit.
This week Adrienne proudly introduces us to “Crazy Over You,” a sock of her own design in Panda Wool Circus.
Agnes is working on her plain Maizy socks for her husband, and they’re coming out quite nice.
Jen is almost finished with her mother in law’s socks. She also cast on some Belatrix in what she considers to be pretty ugly yarn. I’ll have to take your word for it, Jen. I don’t think it looks bad at all.
Amy P. is in need of some help. She has yarn and she has patterns, but she’s not sure which yarn to use on which patterns. Come on guys, let’s help her decide.
Andrea has finished her Hourglass Ribbed Socks in a milk and honey colorway.
In this week’s installment of Sock-It-To-Me-Sunday, Angela Marie shows off her Jaywalkers and Priscilla’s Dream Socks. Great work!
Finally, Angeluna has almost completed her first Bellatrix, and is also almost done with her Solstice Slip socks.
From Dee’s group:
Just one knitter in my group this week. Maybe it’s the heat keeping those needles silent.
Eleanor has finished her sixth pair of socks for Summer of Socks. Her California-Dreamin’Clog socks would look great with a pair of khaki slacks.
From Worsted Knitt’s group:
There’s only one update in Worsted Knitt’s group - Tina has finished her Charades last week, and River Rapids socks this week. She also posted a photo of the first socks she ever knit!
From Jeanie’s group:
We have several sock knitters who are still going strong in the final weeks of SOS2007!
Janelle is knitting her first socks in Koigu and is past the heel on sock #1. She is especially happy to be knitting on some smaller socks after finally finishing the really big socks she made for her husband!
Frieda is on sock #2 of her hubby’s socks in a really pretty . . . . oops, make that “manly”. . . colorway of Regia.
Heather L just posted three completed pairs of socks on her blog! The yarns and patterns are beautiful. You really need to take a look!
Becky admits to a little sock fatigue and has been working on a few other projects. Perhaps we’ll see finished Broadripple socks before the end of SOS?
Heather #1 posted some great pictures of socks in progress, finished socks, and recently purchased yarn with the help of her very own “Creative Photography Department.” Really! Check it out on her blog and read about how her husband put her newly finished socks in the dryer!!!
Ina is having some yarn issues right now, which you can read about on her blog, and sadly has no new socks to report about.
Heather is in a sock lull right now, too, but you can see lots of other new ambitious projects on her blog.
Finally, Janet, just started a pair with some beautiful blue Bearfoot yarn (oh, sooo soft!) and also excavated another wip sock. Will they be completed in time for the end of SOS? Stay tuned!
From Vera’s group:
Susan is laboring away and cast on for a new sock with some lovely handspun.
Susanna has started some hot rocking Jaywalkers. I love the brightness.
It’s number 12 for Theresa.
I finished my second pair of Breeze anklets as well as some booties to boot.
Susan B has finished her second pair of Monkeys (cute and colorful) as well as some self-striping socks
From Megan’s group:
This week, Monica of Passionknit shows us her completed pair of stockinette socks with eye of partridge heel, using a gorgeous colorway from Sunshine Yarns. Even though this pair on size 0 needles and with a larger foot than usual took her two weeks, doesn’t it seem like Monica has turned out a finished pair nearly every week all summer long? Way to go, Monica!
From Tina’s group:
Shannon H. is suffering from a bit of the dreaded Second Sock Syndrome! Oh no! Of course, she’s distracted working on a shawl from her own homespun (woohoo!), but perhaps the Fleece Artist she got in a swap will turn the sock slump around…
Sheri Roy has finished another pair - a plain stockinette, but in a cool mosaic colorway from Fortissima Socka.
From Barb’s group:
Barb H has an update but for some reason I couldn’t open your email too see what it is!!\par
Arlene has finished a 2nd pair for SOS WTG!!\par
Beth has a pair of finished Monkeys WTG!! they are #4 and a pair of Horcrux that are #5!!!\par
Beth has finished a pair of Inside Out socks WTG!!\par
Barb is making great progress on her 2 at once socks the heels are turned and she’s working on the gusset\par
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From Manda’s group:
Not many updates this week from Manda’s part of the list. People must be in “school” mode and not getting as much done!
LynnK shows us a finished pair of socks, as well as two lovely socks in progress
including MezzoDiva’s Campanula pattern!).
Maire starts a new pair of socks this week - Brenda Dayne’s Pembrokeshire Pathways
Manda finishes 2 separate socks
Marisol finished some Monkeys! Very cute!
From Kathy’s group:
Very quiet this week, but Leigh has been busy! She has one finished sock in Jitterbug “Jewel”, and the State Fair socks have been started using Louet Gems in the Embossed Leaves pattern.
From Jen’s group:
The Summer may be winding down (dang already!!! it never even quite got to my neck of the woods in the first place), but the sock knitting is still going strong in my group. The end of the -along must be sparking a lot of finish-itis.
Jeannie’s picked up the pace coming into the home stretch of SOS 2007. Since my last report she’s cranked out a whopping 6 pairs. Dude. That’s almost a pair a day. And I get excited when I manage to get a few rows in. Go Jeannie! Go!
Jeanne finished a gorgeous pair of baby chevrons in yellow and blue J Knits yarn. She’s also tackling a forgotten pair of Child’s First Socks in purty Sophie’s Toes yarn. Now if she can only resist the call of a new golf hobby…
The Esoteric Knitter whipped up a pair of Cookie A’s BFF socks in Madelinetosh Vintage Apron sock yarn. She’s got enough left of the stunning blue and pinkish yarn for a pair of her signature footies. Me likie, too, Jenny!
Jo Ann finished her Broad Ripple socks, but not before she took them to see visit Indianapolis Colts. Indiana-inspired socks knit in Indiana? Doesn’t get more apropos than that!
Jen finished a pair of Fawkes in her Rockin’ Sock Club yarn. AND, the newest STR club yarn have already flown off her needles. She’s back at it again in STR, so stay tuned.
Jo is still plugging away at her hand-dyed Fawkes socks, and has made a bit more progress on the Anniversary Socks. Jo’s recently contracted start-itis and has a crazy number of WIPs vying for her sock time. The Fawkes, they are so close!
Jessica finished a Baby Cable sock in spite of it being mauled by a crazed Scarlett O’Hara at Dragon*Con. I dunno how you managed to keep your cool as all those little stitches came undone. The result in the new Yarn Pirate Rum Runner colorway is a site to behold.
Itchy Fingers finished a single wee monkey for her itchy-footed little girl. As cute as it is, she is only knitting one. She’s got a couple more unidentified socks on the needles, but has been lured by the call of the fingerless mitt.
Jen found comfort in a new pair of Charade socks, which stuck by her through her little son’s surgery. I’m so glad he’s doing well, Jen!
Jennifer’s working on Summer Soltace Socks, and is debating the narrowness of the heel. If you’re worried about it, you can always gift them to me. I’ve got way narrow heels. 
Ingenious Jen is improvising for her cable socks. After losing her cable needle a few times too many, she’s bending the socks to her will with a crochet hook stand-in.
Jenny Raye sent her son off to college this week, but that hasn’t kept her from making big progress on her River Rapids socks.