A quick one from me this fine Wednesday evening as I'm fighting off my ususal summer cold, but I can't possibly not share with you the next prize up for grabs on the Trailwalker 2009 Team Geek Prize Draw!
The lovely Alice of Socktopus decided she wanted in on the whole walking gig, so she very kindly and generously donated a great little duo as an excellent prize:
A copy of Cookie A's brilliant book, Sock Innovation and a skein of Hazel Knits Artisan Sock yarn!
As a lot of you probably know by now, Cookie A's highly-anticipated book is incredibly educational and beautiful that teaches so much about sock design. Everything from elements in a sock design, cable suckage, adjustments and pattern flow gets discussed in good detail, and of course, the patterns are all gorgeous and very interesting. And each pattern gives you tips o how to resize them to your liking, so you get to put to good use everything that you've learned in order to knit the socks you want.
And since a lot of the patterns in the book look best in a semi-solid yarn, we've picked out the lovely Artisan Sock from Hazel Knits for its brilliant colour and gorgeous feel. I'm knitting a pair of socks with it at the moment and goodness, is it ever squooshy! I'm really enjoying working with it, so I'm pretty sure it'll be well-received as a prize.
No walking shennanigans from us this weekend, as it's UK Ravelry Day but next weekend we'll be tackling 40km and the weekend after that, the dreaded double. Eep! Not long now before the real thing, so we're ramping up the training.
Thanks so much to those who have donated so far, and good luck to those who've put their names into the prize draw! It's getting really exciting now!
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