81 Sock Pairs -- And A Very Cool Invitation

Hi All! This Labor Day Edition of the Family Sock Challenge comes with some fun new news! To start off with, I'd like to welcome Michelle to the party. Michelle, who starts off with a finished pair of Jaywalkers just happens to be the owner of a the Sweet Sheep a new online yarn store based in Canada. Michelle has some great standard yarn lines, hand dyes sock yarn herself, and also carries some other nice hand dyed sock yarn. The reason I mention this (although who really needs a reason when hand-dyed sock yarn is involved?), is that she has given me a coupon code to share, in case you're looking to do a little yarn shopping. If you type ML010 into her coupon code box in your shopping cart, you can get 10% off your order. How cool is that? I just placed a little order myself. A girl can never have too much hand-dyed sock yarn, can she? Especially when she has a sock challenge to work on! (Just a note, before the coupon code will work, you need to register with her site -- it's a very low impact process).

We also have another new participant in the group. Cathy is getting started with a bang. She's just finished a pair for her sister-in-law and is midway through pairs for her Mother-in-Law and Husband. Cathy has a small person on the way, so I think she's going to be a busy sock knitter indeed!

Meanwhile, a number of other people have been busy, too! Jessica finished up a pair of Opal Ladybug socks for her Mom and has started on a pair for a good friend. Janine has finished a pair of striped footies for her daughter. She claims she hasn't been knitting many socks, but if you check out her blog, it looks like quite a few pairs of very creative socks have been coming off of her needles! Carole has been knitting up a veritable storm of family socks: a lovely pair for her stepdaughter, and 2 pairs of socks (one for vacation, one for a birthday) for her daughter Hannah. Three pairs of socks in just about a month. And, last but not least, Michelle finished a pair for her son, Justin. He's completely adorable, and definitely worth a click just to see the picture of him modeling his socks.

So all told -- that's 8 more pairs of socks!

I'm working on my final pair for the challenge -- a special pair for my aunt. I also started another pair for myself.. as research for my aunt's pair, don't you know?

Wanna see the whole list? Here it is!