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• 1 Eileen // Jan 29, 2007 at 6:35 pm

  I love socks and I need more socks, so pick me!

• 2 Valerie // Jan 29, 2007 at 6:45 pm

  I’m all for this contest! I’d love to try some Scout sock yarn!

• 3 Colleen // Jan 29, 2007 at 7:08 pm

  I’m having too much fun! Just posted and linked to you on my blog! Happy Podcastiversary!

• 4 Sallie // Jan 29, 2007 at 7:18 pm

  Happy Podcastiversary! I will try to see if I can figure out how to link to your blog from my blog. I’m not too good at that stuff yet.

• 5 scout // Jan 29, 2007 at 8:24 pm

  You are very welcome sister!

• 6 Monika // Jan 29, 2007 at 9:08 pm

  Thanks for stopping by. The yarn I’ve used for Vertigo came from Europe. I’ve ordered it at www.wollsucht.de, but it is from Denmark. It’s real scratchy (100% wool)but great colors!

• 7 Deb // Jan 29, 2007 at 9:18 pm

  Hi Christine,
  I posted these thoughts on my own blog (http://rather-be.blogspot.com/)and linked to you. Happy Podcastiversary!
  While working on my Titania’s Revenge sock for the Socks that Rock Club, I determined a few things that might interest you:
  1)I ADORE Socks that Rock yarn
  2)I wish I were a bit faster at knitting socks, because I have so many patterns and sock yarns I want to get to
  3)I usually have a sock going as my #2 project (which is why they take a long time!) I have a sweater, afghan, etc. going as my “main,” “big,” project, but socks are a great portable secondary
  4)Since I started knitting socks last year, it’s hard for me to wear any other kind on a cold day!

  I’d love to win the yarn!

• 8 Sharon // Jan 30, 2007 at 12:10 am

  Happy Podcastiversary and congratulations on a great program. I’m glad to hear that you are celebrating socks - I love knitting them, love wearing them, love seeing the people I love wear socks that I’ve made. Good thing they like wearing them, too! I don’t think I’ve met a sock yarn yet that I didn’t like - how am I supposed to resist little yummy bundles of colour like that?

• 9 Critterknit // Jan 30, 2007 at 6:18 am

  I’m trying to learn to knit socks! Not that I need another knitting “crack”, but everyone loves hand-knitted socks so much. I must know what it’s all about for myself!

• 10 Chris // Jan 30, 2007 at 7:10 am

  I love how comfortable handknit socks are. Plus socks are portable knitting, much easier to fit properly than a sweater, easy to buy the right amount of yarn for… I can’t remember the last time I didn’t have at least one pair of socks on my needles!

• 11 Carol // Jan 30, 2007 at 7:26 am

  I love to knit socks for my husband because he has small feet and really has trouble finding socks that fit him well-he loves my socks and I get lots of praise for them-I love these easy kind of contests!

• 12 Kimberly // Jan 30, 2007 at 9:28 am

  Happy Podcastiversary. I would like to donate a copy of my sockfish bag as a prize. I adore sock knitting and designed this bag so you can take your sock knitting with you in a fun way. I think your podcast is great and I’d like to help get the word out for you.

• 13 Cindy // Jan 30, 2007 at 1:14 pm

  I don’t like to knit socks but keep on knitting them in case I’ve missed something. I’m on my 4th pair and prefer the magic loop method because I have second sock syndrome.
  I also like to knit them toe up because I’m paranoid of running out of yarn.
  That said, I just joined the “socks that rock club: ” in hopes that expensive sock yarn will make me love to knit socks. HELP ME. I’m hopeless.

• 14 Nutmeg // Jan 30, 2007 at 1:56 pm

  Happy Podcastiversary! Your show has given me a lot of enjoyment, thank you. I’m another Canadian listener, from rural Alberta. I’ve only made 7 pairs of socks since teaching myself, last summer. I prefer toe-ups, & hope to wean myself from “afterthought heels” to ones that are a bit more complex. I originally started sock knitting as a challenge to myself (I’m “knitting math allergic”), & to replenish my sock drawer (everything had holes all at once). Keep up the good work, Christine! And thanks for this chance to participate in your contest…

• 15 Lil // Jan 30, 2007 at 2:12 pm

  I just wrote you a sock entry
  http://library-lil.diaryland.com/07jan30.html

  I do so love your show!

• 16 Indigo // Jan 30, 2007 at 2:50 pm

  Happy Podcastiversary!

• 17 stefuni // Jan 30, 2007 at 3:05 pm

  i just got my first book on how to knit socks.. they are my next challenge.. i LOVE sock yarn.. i want to knit socks.. just haven’t started yet.. YAY socks!!!

  LOVE the podcast!! happy Pod-iversary!!!

• 18 Sara in WI // Jan 30, 2007 at 5:13 pm

  Happy Podcastivesrary! Socks! Socks! Who doesn’t love to knit socks? And Nancy Bush is the best! I ‘ve taken her classes and even had the opportunity to travel on an Interweave Tour to Scandinavia and Estonia with Nancy! What a treat to hear and learn from her! Back to socks, they’re such a portable project to take along. I’m a Birkenstock and handknit sock wearer totally. Knit on!

• 19 knit_tgz // Jan 30, 2007 at 5:35 pm

  I wrote a post!

• 20 Tawana // Jan 30, 2007 at 6:09 pm

  Hey Christine,

  Happy Podcastversary. I love to knit socks. It is rare when I don’t have socks on the needles. I talk all about it on my blog here:

  Rooted in Knit-reality

• 21 Tawana // Jan 30, 2007 at 6:15 pm

  Oh did I tell I love you podcast and is one that I listen to all the time.:)

• 22 Wendy DG // Jan 30, 2007 at 7:28 pm

  I love your Podcast. I’m so glad you’re still out there!!! Happy Pocdcastiversary.

• 23 Tammy // Jan 30, 2007 at 8:34 pm

  Wow another podcast, how cool is that!! I am going to go back and listen to your earlier shows. I found you off of Deb’s site. This is great!!

• 24 Susan // Jan 30, 2007 at 9:00 pm

  Christine, First off, I really enjoy the podcast. I am a total socknitter, meaning that’s all I knit. The knitting of socks keeps me sane. I switch out the pattern and the yarn and it’s always an adventure and I have yet to tire of it! I’m always looking for new patterns and new yarns.

• 25 Pensguys // Jan 30, 2007 at 9:03 pm

  Hi! I created a post on my blog about why I love to knit socks! I love this contest idea! Thanks! Keep on with the great podcasts.

  http://classicalknittingcorner.blogspot.com/
  2007/01/why-i-like-to-knit-socks.html

• 26 Lois // Jan 31, 2007 at 4:42 am

  delurking to join your contest.

  congrats on your Podcastiversary! i love heav you for company when I knit during the weekends. looking for to your future podcasts.

• 27 Elemmaciltur // Jan 31, 2007 at 5:13 am

  I’m in the process of making the blog entry on my blog right now….so check out my blog soon.

• 28 Lisa // Jan 31, 2007 at 6:24 am

  I seem to run hot and cold for socks. I’ll go a long spell without knitting any, then suddenly that’s all I want to knit! The last 2 months I’ve been on the upside of socks, knitting 3 pair and half way through a fourth. But I’m starting to itch for a sweater, so socks may be delegated back to my travel knitting.

  Thanks for the comments on my blog yesterday! Definitely try the felted clogs when you have a chance. They are the bomb! I’ll be sure to mention your contest the next time I post (hopefully this weekend.)

• 29 kori // Jan 31, 2007 at 8:26 am

  Happy Podcastiversary!
  Here’s the story of my first sock.
  I decided to knit a sock. My mom bought me my first (lion brand magic stripes) sock yarn, and a basic ’sock recipe.’ I cast on, worked on some other projects, had my first child, finished the sock, hated the way it fit. So, I frogged it. Then, I cast on, worked on it, worked on some other projects, wanted to keep my child quiet during a meeting, and let him rip it all the way out.
  Then, I cast on, worked on it, worked on some other projects, decided to get serious and finish it, and the project bag was stolen at a petting zoo.
  I’m still determined to knit socks.

• 30 Alyson // Jan 31, 2007 at 10:59 am

  I can’t think of one good reason NOT to knit socks!! They’re brilliant, people love them, muggles are fascinated by them when you whip them out on buses and elevators, and they’re the best possible way to allow you to buy tons and tons of single skeins of yarn. (I like to buy about five skeins of sock yarn for every pair of socks I complete. You do the math.)

• 31 Carolyn // Jan 31, 2007 at 12:13 pm

  Hi Christine,
  I love listening to your podcast. Thanks so much for all the time and effort that you put into making them!
  As for socks, I have a bit of a love / hate relationship with them. I love making the first one. I hate making the second one. I definitely have the well-known disease known as second sock syndrome. And I knit socks on DPNs so in the past I’ve always waited to start the second until after I finished the first one. When I made socks for this past Christmas though I worked the socks simultaneously on two pairs of DPNs - that seemed to worked okay to combat the SSS (atleast I was able to give people pairs of socks for Christmas, rather than just one!)
  And there’s nothing quite as warm and wondeful as handknit wool socks, so while I’m on a break from them for right now, I’m sure I’ll get back to them shortly - especially since I got from socks that rock from my mother-in-law for Christmas (how wonderful is she?)
  Thanks again for all your work on the podcast!!

  Carolyn

• 32 Sue // Jan 31, 2007 at 1:38 pm

  Cheers to another year of great podcasts!

  I knit my first pair of socks last year and it took me all of summer to learn how to handle DPN’s the size of toothpicks. lol
  I gave them to my 18 year old daughter because she admired the colorway and because she is my firstborn.
  First socks for the first born.
  I never saw her wear them until yesterday. I picked her up from school to help her mail out college applications. She was sick with a headcold and feeling stressed about the applications and tired from writing exams all day long.
  She said, “Mom, I’m wearing your socks today.”
  “Oh,” I said. “Are they comfortable?”
  “They are comforting,” she said.
  In my opinion, the sweetest compliment a sock knitter could receive.

• 33 Vera // Jan 31, 2007 at 1:53 pm

  I adore handmade socks, and wanting to make socks was the reason I learned to knit and I picked up a pait of dpns soon after.

  I never wore brightly colored socks until I knit my own, and now I love wearning bright and crazy socks all year long with my sandals (I live in coastal South Carolina, so not so much in the summer).

  I love pretty sock yarn too. Sometimes, I like to collect it just to look at it.

• 34 A Brush with Celebrity « Vintage Fashionista’s KnitBlog // Jan 31, 2007 at 2:50 pm

  […] Christine, producer of the Pointy Sticks podcast, just left me a comment on my personal blog, wanting to know how to find this blog.  Aaaaaaaack!!!  That’s SO cool!  I listen to her podcast and like it, but I’m so surprised to actually get a comment from her.  How cool is that?!  I have yet to leave a comment on her blog/site, so I feel so special that she found my blog and left me a comment, because it’s not like her comment was the thanks-for-leaving-me-a-comment variety.  :-)  I will have to get over there and leave her a comment so I can get entered into her Podcastiversary Contest, I mean, say thank you, your worship (ulterior motives? what? me?).   [Giddy laughter ensues.]  :-)  […]

• 35 Lauren // Jan 31, 2007 at 2:53 pm

  Hi Christine!
  I LOVE your podcast! This is my first comment (I generally just prefer to be a listener and admire you from afar). I just want to thank you for putting out such a neat podcast (honestly, I’m not just commenting for the chance to get yarn). But, hey, would I turn down prizes if I happened to win them? LOL!

  Keep on podcasting and happy podcastiversary!!!

• 36 Valaree // Jan 31, 2007 at 2:54 pm

  I went from knitting scarfs and crocheting newborn hats to knitting socks. I loved the self patterning yarn, I love the warmth they offer my very cold toes in these New England winters, I love their portability and now I love making mis-matched pairs from all the leftovers.

  I’m still intimidated by sewing seams although people tell me that if I can knit socks I can sew a seam!

  I use Melinda Goodfellow’s “Classic Socks” pattern.

• 37 Gina // Jan 31, 2007 at 2:55 pm

  Happy Podcastiversary! Love your podcast so keep it up. What a fun contest. My sock thoughts here.

• 38 Laura // Jan 31, 2007 at 3:32 pm

  Oh, Christine, thank you for giving me an excuse to wax poetic on socks! I just wrote my longest post ever on my blog - http://thecontinuingdrama.blogspot.com

• 39 Heather // Jan 31, 2007 at 4:31 pm

  I love Ms Bush’s sock patterns. I have vintage socks and I’ve made just about everyone. Socks are the perfect knitted gift except that once you start giving them they are all anybody ever asks for!

• 40 Webhill // Jan 31, 2007 at 4:50 pm

  Hey Christine! I posted to my blog about your contest:
  see http://knitworth.blogspot.com/2007/01/pointy-sticks-podcastaversary.html

• 41 Monika // Jan 31, 2007 at 5:03 pm

  Pick me, Pick me….knitting socks is why I learned to knit. There’s just something cool about juggling 4 needles (maybe it’s all the possible fiber related/needle injuries) I love living on the edge. Of course I end up frogging more then I actually finish. But I always have at least one sock on needles at all times.

• 42 christine // Jan 31, 2007 at 6:15 pm

  Learning to knit socks suddenly made me a real knitter. Yay to no more scarves and blankets, or at least I can mix it up a little. I now belong to a knitting group, and have enough sock yarn that it qualifies as a stash. I also enjoy being able to knit something so portable.

• 43 Cecilia // Jan 31, 2007 at 8:32 pm

  Here’s my position on socks. I love to knit them because they’re so portable. They’re always my away-from-home projects. But so far I only do top-down, heel flap socks. I tried and tried to figure out the toe-up, short row heel socks but couldn’t for the life of me figure it out. I will try again someday. But I love love love my homemade socks and I can’t make them fast enough to keep my feet warm. I also am planning to learn the magic loop method because I love the magic parts of knitting. And, if it’ll get me another entry, I will also post a link to pointy sticks from my blog. But I will not leave an odeo comment, because, like you, I have a terrible cold and I can’t hardly even understand myself right now when I talk!

• 44 Laura // Feb 1, 2007 at 1:38 pm

  I love Cookie’s sock patterns! I just knit Monkey and it was awesome

• 45 Theresa // Feb 1, 2007 at 7:11 pm

  I just finished my 101st pair of socks. I love knitting socks. Clearly. Mostly, I love the rhythm and that I can do other things, like read, talk on the phone, or walk around the art museum and still be knitting socks.

• 46 Yvonne // Feb 2, 2007 at 11:51 am

  I love socks because they can be as simple or complex as you want to make them. I love dyeing sock yarn and seeing how it turns out when it is knit up. My favorite thing is having a pair of socks on the needles to travel with and a sweater on the needles to knit when I am at home. Happy Podiversary!

• 47 Hannah // Feb 2, 2007 at 12:37 pm

  Happy anniversary!

  I love to knot socks because they are so portable–and so easy to knit without paying attention. Of course, most of all, I love to wear handknitted socks.

• 48 Petra // Feb 2, 2007 at 8:50 pm

  I knitted my first pair of socks many years ago in some cheap bright coloured acrylic yarn, and have loved to knit socks since then. Now I knit toeup socks with Magic-loop and I just love it! And all the new fabulous sock yarns! Unfortunately I haven’t had the opportunity to try the Socks That Rocks-yarn yet (it’s hard to get here in Sweden…) but I will do that some day! I always have a pair of socks on the needles with me when I am at work or travelling somewhere. Often in Opal-yarn, but I have knitted quite a few pairs in alpaca as well. And my feet just love them!

• 49 Amy // Feb 2, 2007 at 9:25 pm

  Please enter me in your contest. I posted about my progress in custom knitting a sock on my blog, and linked to your blog. Happy Podiversary! Viva la sock!

• 50 Jen // Feb 3, 2007 at 12:21 am

  Happy Podiversary!

  Socks have been my knitting obsession for the past year or two– they are small enough to try a difficult pattern (that I may not be able to pay attention long enough to knit a whol sweater in) or to try a more expensive yarn without breaking the bank.

  They can also be used for portable and/ or mindless knitting if that is what I need.

• 51 Michelle // Feb 3, 2007 at 12:07 pm

  Hi Christine!
  I have just started knitting socks and I love it! I have only finished one pair, but I already have at least a dozen patterns picked out for the future. I love socks because the gratification of finishing a project comes sooner than when I knit a sweater or shawl, they are portable, and combine mindless knitting with techniques that make me focus. My first pair were top down, but the next will be toe up, and then with circulars.

• 52 Victoria // Feb 4, 2007 at 12:16 pm

  Hi Christine,

  Happy podiversary! I love your show.
  I was first inspired to try making socks after reading Nancy Bush’s “Folk Socks” (excellent book — well, everything she has written has been excellent. She is one of the few authors whose books I can buy sight unseen and know I will not be disappointed.) Hope to take a class with her when my schedule permits.

  One of my knitting goals for 2007 is to make socks using different techniques: one sock at a time using magic loop; two socks at once using magic loop; 2 socks on 2 circs; and finally 2 socks (one inside the other) on dpns. I previously knitted socks on 2 circs but I think the siren call of the magic loop method might have won me over.

• 53 Sheri // Feb 5, 2007 at 2:22 pm

  I wanted to knit socks but I never tried because I hated double pointed needles. One day at my LYS I told the owner and she convinced me to try two circular needles. I loved the technique! That is how I always make socks now. Socks are so portable and you can have something lovely so quickly. One tip I have I first heard on Knitty Gritty. When I pick up gusset stitches I twist the first row by knitting in the back. It closes the holes a little better. I’ve never yet met a sock yarn I didn’t like or a pattern I didn’t want to try. Socks really rock!

• 54 Ruth // Feb 5, 2007 at 7:40 pm

  I’m going to try to put a link to you on my blog….not sure if I know how…..but I love knitting socks….I had only knit 3 pairs of socks and my friends requested that I teach them too….of course I couldn’t turn them down

• 55 Hannah // Feb 6, 2007 at 1:50 pm

  I’ve linked to you!

  http://thepurloinedletter.blogspot.com/2007/02/socks-to-save-us.html

• 56 Hannah // Feb 6, 2007 at 1:52 pm

  I linked to Pointy Sticks! (Just click on the link above to go directly to the particular post.) Happy anniversary!

• 57 Beverly // Feb 8, 2007 at 4:27 pm

  Congrats on your podiversary!!!
  Currently involved in a very long soxploration at fiberitis.

• 58 Fay // Feb 9, 2007 at 12:26 pm

  One of my friends started knitting socks last year and loved them and she loved knitting them. I thought she was crazy. I decided that I had to understand her fanaticism by making her a pair after a trial pair for my boyfriend. After weeks of frustrating dpns, stitch ladders, miles of stockinette, and sideways toes, I had my first sock. I realized that everything I love about learning to knit is in a sock. I try to learn something new with every project and for my first sock, I learned a lot. My latest project is a toe-up cabled sock, and while it’s slow going, I’m having a lot of fun learning the techniques. I still have yet to make the socks for my friend, but they’re in the queue!

• 59 Tara M // Feb 17, 2007 at 12:40 pm

  I really like socks because they are small projects that you can take along pretty much anywhere. My favorite style is toe up and my most recent toe interest is from lara neel of math4knitters.

  Lara’s Recipe for toe-up spiral socks:
  CO 4 stitches
  K in the front and back of each stitch, join.
  Knit one round, divide stitches onto 4 double-pointed needles (it will be akward at first)
  On every other round, increase either at the beginning or end of each needle until you have enough stitches to fit around your foot.

  Happy podiversary!

• 60 Jodi // Feb 20, 2007 at 8:26 pm

  Happy Podcastiversary! What a lovely contest idea.

• 61 Jodi // Feb 20, 2007 at 8:30 pm

  Oops! Here’s the rest of my comment:

  I love knitting socks on size 3 or 4 needles. Socks made of fingering weight yarn on little tiny size 0 needles make me CRAZY! I wish more hand-dyers made DK weight sock yarn. Cider Moon does, and it’s lovely, and I’ve heard that Cherry Tree Hill soon will, too.

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