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Anyway, here's a little preview of some sock love I have in store for Stitches. I call this the Twisted Flower Sock.
My plan is to sell whatever I have leftover from Stitches online, so you don't have to be there. But whenever all the yarn runs out, I may opt out of the retail biz, so get it while you can!
Gorgeous sock! That pattern is amazing and I especially like how the pattern is continued in the heel flap!
Posted by: Emily at February 8, 2007 9:22 AMWow! Is that a stitch pattern from a Japanese 250 stitch library book, by any chance? I've had a pattern just like that earmarked for fitting onto a sock, but I never would have come up with that heel treatment! Just, lovely.
Posted by: leila at February 8, 2007 9:24 AMI want that sock pattern! Will you sell it with yarn only? Gorgeous!!
Posted by: Chery at February 8, 2007 9:28 AMThat sock is amazing. I won't be at Stitches so I'll watch to find out where we can get the pattern.
Posted by: hillary at February 8, 2007 9:35 AMOh my, what a gorgeous pattern! I would love to have the pattern!
Posted by: Rosemary at February 8, 2007 9:43 AMVery pretty. I love the traveling stitches. Another winner!
Posted by: Janice at February 8, 2007 9:43 AMThat is a gorgeous pattern!!! I do hope that it will be available at some point for those who can't be at stitches. It's really just so beautiful!
Posted by: Allegra at February 8, 2007 9:46 AMthat is beautiful! the yarn color highlights the texture wonderfully! will the pattern be available as well as the yarn?
Posted by: stacey at February 8, 2007 9:54 AMMe too! Me too! Can we have/pay for the pattern only?? I have a very uber-special occasion coming up, and I think I love these for that purpose....
Posted by: Alyson at February 8, 2007 9:59 AMCan we still buy the pattern even if you run out of yarn at Stitiches? It's beautiful! I can't wait to see what else you have. Just wish I could make it to Stitiches to see it all in person!
Posted by: Lori at February 8, 2007 10:01 AMThe pattern is wonderful! I also vote for letting use that can't go to stitches have a chance to get it!
Posted by: Shannon at February 8, 2007 10:03 AMCookie, you are a sock genius. Those are so beautiful!
Posted by: Leslie at February 8, 2007 10:09 AMI need this pattern. NEED it!! Yet another request that you make it available for those of us who aren't going to Stitches. Oh please!!
Posted by: Kerry at February 8, 2007 10:09 AMThose socks are amazing...I must have that pattern!!! Even if you run out of yarn...the pattern is to sockilicious to be abandoned!! I'm going to hold my breath until you make it available!! Holding.....
Posted by: Neuroknitter at February 8, 2007 10:33 AMThat is fantastic! I'd love that pattern, too, even if you run out of the scrumptious yarn.
Posted by: Tasha at February 8, 2007 10:40 AMOne word from me: WOO-OOW!!
I can't wait to try that pattern with the green Koigu I have!!
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at February 8, 2007 10:45 AM
Stunning. That is one of the prettiest socks I've seen in a great while.
Posted by: nikki at February 8, 2007 10:56 AMAboslutely gorgeous design and yarn. Anychance I can reserve a kit? I'm going to be there on Friday for the Market. I inatvertendly posted the same comment on the sweater post. Plese disregard that one.
Thanks,
Marisol
Posted by: Marisol at February 8, 2007 11:10 AMWow Cookie those are amazing! I really hope you offer up the pattern for sale. Those will go to the top of the 'to knit' list!
Posted by: Rae at February 8, 2007 11:12 AMWow, that's a gorgeous sock. I am so in love with the heel on that. I'm normally a short row heel girl but with a heel like that I will so do a heel flap/gusset. Not that I wasn't going to stop by your booth at Stitches, now I have an awesome reason to!! :)
Posted by: Teenuh at February 8, 2007 11:14 AMWow, that is soo so nice! Will you be making the pattern available?
Posted by: Sara at February 8, 2007 11:20 AMUnbelievable!
Please consider making this available as a pattern for those of us who can't be at Stitches. Your talent is truly amazing!
Posted by: Meghan at February 8, 2007 11:47 AMwhere is stitches? i've been looking and can't find any info. is it in the bay area?
Posted by: k at February 8, 2007 11:50 AMIt is absolutely GORGEOUS!!!
I too ask that you please offer the pattern for sale to those of us who cannot attend Stitches.
I am in awe of your talent.
My jaw dropped when I saw these! They are incredible. I wouldn't be surprised if you sold out!
Posted by: Jodie at February 8, 2007 12:11 PMWow, these are gorgeous! It would be great if you made it a pay per download PDF on the website. It would make you have to stay in retail a bit longer, but the deman would be there!
Posted by: Jenna at February 8, 2007 12:20 PMMust have those socks. No way to get to Stitches. Would either have to swim the Pacific, or run across Canada. Going into a corner to cry now.
Posted by: bunchkin at February 8, 2007 12:31 PMmore of the same....please make the pattern available on the blog! Huge fan of your work and that pattern almost made me pee my pants with excitement!!!!
Posted by: Alice at February 8, 2007 1:08 PMI love the sock pattern. If you decide to go out of the retail business, please at least sell your sock patterns!!! I love the Twisted Flower Sock. We can always get our sock yarn from the ladies at Blue Moon and other indie dyers.
Posted by: Mia at February 8, 2007 1:25 PMThat sock is so beautiful, I think I'm going to cry. :)
Posted by: Katinka at February 8, 2007 2:15 PMThat is the most beautiful thing I have ever seen! I really hope you will make it available online for the rest of us :0).
Posted by: Bex at February 8, 2007 2:15 PMOMG, those are gorgeous! I would love to make those. If you sell/post I will buy/use.
Posted by: reyesdi at February 8, 2007 2:30 PMI'll chime in with all the others on this post...I would absolutely love it if the pattern could be made available for sale to those of us who won't be able to attend Stitches. Those socks are absolutely gorgeous!
Posted by: whitney at February 8, 2007 2:41 PMAnd yet another... I love it, I want it, I need it. I wish I had a fraction of your sock-designing talent! As is, I have to console myself by knitting as many of your patterns as I possibly can... and I can't wait to make this one!
Posted by: Koren at February 8, 2007 2:52 PMI am in love. Absolute utter love. Oh please sell this online. There is no way I can make it to stitches since I reside in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Have a little pity for a girl stuck on a rock!
Posted by: Opal at February 8, 2007 2:55 PMOhmygoodness! Major sock love! I NEED that pattern... please make it available to those of us who can't go to Stitches!! :-)
Posted by: Crystal at February 8, 2007 2:59 PMCookie! You're amazing...sign me up for a leftover pattern.
Posted by: Lori in Michigan at February 8, 2007 3:31 PMCookie! You're amazing...sign me up for a leftover pattern.
Posted by: Lori in Michigan at February 8, 2007 3:31 PMLovely pattern, Cookie! I definitely will be snagging that one up at Stitches.
Posted by: CJ at February 8, 2007 4:22 PMYou really are extraordinarily talented with sock design. It's unbelievable!
Posted by: BrownPants at February 8, 2007 4:23 PMGood heavens! How sweet are those socks! Please pattern to buy? With or without yarn - I will take it! or buy it I should say. Just let me know when and where to send pay pal dollars.
Posted by: Sheila at February 8, 2007 4:25 PMHi Cookie,
Thank you for the information about Stitches West. Unfourtunately, I will be down there this weekend not the date of the festivities. I also wanted to say that your new sock pattern is amazing (even from you)!
I am working on a pair of your BFF socks and a pair of Monkeys and I am thrilled by how well written your patterns are. I was intimidated at first because they look so fancy but they are so well written I have renewed confidence and enthusiasm for complex knitting. Thanks Again!
Courtney
I am in love!!!! This is the most beautiful sock I' ve seen in a long time. Will you make the pattern available please.
Posted by: Ana at February 8, 2007 4:52 PMI am in love!!!! This is the most beautiful sock I' ve seen in a long time. Will you make the pattern available please.
Posted by: Ana at February 8, 2007 4:52 PMHey Cookie . . . I hope you realize that may be the most beautiful sock ever in the entire universe. I hope the leg realizes how lucky it is.
Posted by: Cat Bordhi at February 8, 2007 5:10 PMThat is a beautiful sock. I want, I want, I want. Please let us know how we can get the kit.
Posted by: Peggy at February 8, 2007 5:39 PMAh, you're both killin' me w/your awesome patterns! I hope you'll have some left when I head your way after the BMFA booth.
Posted by: C. at February 8, 2007 6:41 PM*flabbergasted* I'm working on the monkey sock and I thought that was the most gorgeous sock but this one blows it out of the water!
Posted by: Meghan at February 8, 2007 7:03 PMLove it!!! Please, oh please make it available for purchase after stitches 'cuz I just know you will sell out of that gorgeous kit in no time. Please!!!
Posted by: Kristy at February 8, 2007 8:28 PMLove. This. PATTERN! WANT this pattern. Am itching to knit this pattern. You are a sock goddess!
Posted by: [no author] at February 8, 2007 9:55 PMCookie...I'm still holding my breath...anoxic blue is not a good color for lips! Still holding....!!! You have outdone even your own amazing self with that magnificent pattern!!! :)
Posted by: neuroknitter at February 8, 2007 10:12 PMOh, that sock is gorgeous! Please tell me you'll make the pattern available *somewhere*, even if you do run out of yarn?
Posted by: G. Knerd at February 8, 2007 11:28 PMOh WOW!!! I LOVE the pattern! Where can I get it? Or is it going to be on Knitty?
Posted by: Elemmaciltur at February 8, 2007 11:43 PMHoly crap. It is a thing of beauty.
(I realize my comment is not terribly poetic.)
I read your blog on a daily basis. Your Socks are gorgeous, as usual. Please put me on the list as well for the pattern, or kit, whatever is available after Stitches West.
Posted by: Rocksolana at February 9, 2007 5:34 AMPlease put me on "the list" too for the pattern and/or kit available at SW.
Posted by: Lori at February 9, 2007 9:49 AMOh, I can't go to Stitches East. But, can I purchase the pattern and/or the kit online??? Please pretty please???
Posted by: gail at February 9, 2007 10:28 AMWow! I see those Celtic knots and I think kilt hose - maybe not all the way up for that length, but perhaps. You ARE going to give/sell the pattern, right?
Posted by: Kim at February 9, 2007 10:54 AMThat is gorgeous! Please let us know if you'll be selling the pattern online. I really need it.
Posted by: Frith at February 9, 2007 10:59 AMI _need_ to have that pattern! (And I don't even really like knitting socks!) Will you please offer it for sale online for us Canadians?
Posted by: Em at February 9, 2007 11:21 AMI am in love with that sock. Is there a pattern for it that us humble mortal knitters can get?
Posted by: Beth K at February 9, 2007 1:51 PMSorry about the 3 comment posts. I had help from little fingers.
Posted by: Beth K at February 9, 2007 1:54 PMhi Cookie -
love the Baudelaire sock, love this even more! Count me in as one knitter happy to pay for a pattern/kit, however you're doing it!
Posted by: Judith at February 9, 2007 2:25 PMOh my gosh.... Please tell us midwestern knitters that we can somehow get the pattern for that sock....
Posted by: Elizabeth at February 9, 2007 3:04 PMI totally agree with all the other 300 posters above. I love, I want, I need, I covet, I drool, ect. Please make this pattern available. I bet you could put a kid thru college on this pattern alone. I will be bookmarking your blog and waiting for news!!
Posted by: Ann Roberts at February 9, 2007 5:29 PMOh, I must have that pattern. But I'm on the East Coast, and there's no way I can get to Stitches West! *sob*
Please, oh please tell me there's a way I can get at least the pattern, if not the scrumptious (green!) yarn.
Posted by: Megan at February 9, 2007 5:32 PMI totally need that sock pattern!! Will it be available online?
Posted by: Wendy at February 9, 2007 8:02 PMI, too, would love to have this pattern or a kit. Probably one of the prettiest sock patterns I have seen in a long time. Do you take bribes?
Posted by: Beth at February 10, 2007 7:13 AMyet another request for an online pattern for those of us too far away to make it to stitches (i'm in scotland, so it would be a bit of a trek for me!). what a beautiful sock... i'm in awe of your designing talent! just finished the monkey socks & loved them, and am halfway through my katrina rib, & can't wait to add yet another of your great patterns to my "to-knit" list! xo
Posted by: tigerlilith at February 10, 2007 9:10 AMI'm not a sock fan and I have never knit a sock in my life (although I've managed to knit half a sock, but that was before the gusset, heel, etc., guess, this doesn't really count), but this sock looks soo incredibly nice.
Posted by: projektleiterin at February 10, 2007 9:26 AMI would be interested in purchasing either a kit or just a pattern, as I will not be able to attend Stitches. Thanks!!
Posted by: Emily at February 10, 2007 11:16 AMI hope after you opt out of the retail business you concider selling just the pattern on your site. I love it!
Posted by: rfx1982 at February 10, 2007 1:00 PMI would be interested in purchasing either a kit or just a pattern, as I will not be able to attend Stitches. Thanks!!
Posted by: Emily at February 10, 2007 1:28 PMWOW SOCKS -talk about twisted ,you have just twisted my brain -I need I WANT, the pattern ,tell me how and where to buy it YOU ARE TALENTED! pat jarvis
Posted by: pat jarvis at February 10, 2007 8:57 PMCan;'t make it to Stitches--will be performing, but would like the sock pattern...let me know where you're planning to sell the pattern.
Posted by: Tena at February 12, 2007 6:05 AMWow. If I could marry a sock pattern I might just marry that one.
The colour...the cabling...the flowerly type details.
Mmmmmm. Socky. :) Every time I see your patterns I want to write you a little letter.
It would go somethign like this:
Dear Cookie A.,
Your sock patterns are scrumptious. When I grow up I hope I can be just like you.
Looooove,
Me. :)
I would eat that pattern if it weren't for the fact that then I couldn't knit it. :)
Posted by: Arianne at February 12, 2007 8:51 AMI too would love to purchase this sock pattern and wool. Please advise when available. One of the best I've seen.
Lynne
I am madly in love with this sock! I cannot be at Stitches, so please, please, please let us knwo when we can get at this pattern.
Posted by: Lisa K. at February 12, 2007 11:03 AMThat sock is amazing! I love it! (And want to knit it, like, yesterday!)
Posted by: caro at February 12, 2007 6:07 PMholy crap. it would be a CRIME not to sell the pattern, especially when so many people would pay good money for it! beautiful!
Posted by: domesticat at February 12, 2007 7:03 PMi absolutely love that pattern. it is so beautifully elegant.
Posted by: marti at February 13, 2007 10:32 AMBaudelaire meets Celtic in Bavaria wearing Irish colours.....bravissima!
Posted by: Marjan at February 13, 2007 1:42 PMHoly crap! That is the most spectacular sock I've ever seen! Please let folks know when the pattern is available. Can it be adjusted for ample/Estonian calves? I like my sock tops to sit at 7" off the floor and the circumference at that point on my leg is 12.5".
Posted by: Melissa at February 13, 2007 1:53 PMNot that you need anyone else to say Oh My Goddess Cookie....but I say that anyway!! Your mind is amazing!!
We will be at Stitches West (booth 602) as well! I hope to see you there!! Best of luck with sales!!
Not that you need anyone else to say Oh My Goddess Cookie....but I say that anyway!! Your mind is amazing!!
We will be at Stitches West (booth 602) as well! I hope to see you there!! Best of luck with sales!!
please, i beg, make this pattern available for us poor souls that cannot attend stitches west.....please please please! it is gorgeous!
Posted by: chappy at February 19, 2007 9:45 PMI'm with everyone else here and would really like to purchase a copy of this pattern OR the kit, whichever you prefer, but I'm on the east coast and won't be able to go to Stitches West. Please make it available online. Thank you! Pam Porter
Posted by: Pam Porter at February 20, 2007 7:42 AMPlease please Cookie, please with sugar on top, make the pattern available !! Beautiful !
Posted by: Vicki at February 20, 2007 7:43 AMI pretty much want to buy these. How much are you thinking of selling them for?
Posted by: grace at February 20, 2007 5:57 PMLove the sock. How can I get a copy of the pattern. I live in Seattle and won't be able to attend "Stitches".
Posted by: Lisa at February 20, 2007 6:46 PM