BigSock Event at Puffy Mondaes

This weekend was the Bigsock event at Puffy Mondaes , it was such great fun! Friday night we stayed up knitting until well after midnight on the bigsock. One thing I have noticed about this project is the sense of comraderie and unity that is felt while working on it with a group of knitters. It made me think of the craftswomen that came before us who would come together to work on group projects and build community. This is such a very special project for that very reason.

People trickled in all day Friday and Saturday and continue to pop into take part in the bigsock goodness.

It is GROWING!

lastly, proof that we have entirely too much crazy, giggly fun with our knitting...

The Bigsock is visiting Puffy Mondaes

Last Night at open craft night at Puffy Mondaes Sustainable Arts in Nampa Idaho we got the big sock all laid out, unraveled and set up. I have to admit it took me a minute to adequately get my mind wrapped around it to understand exactly how the sock works and how to keep it organized... We have a big event planned for the sock this weekend and we have these beautiful posters (origional art by Aaron Brown) going out to all of the yarn stores in the valley, and posted up all over the place.

This is Keren Brown, Artist Extrordinaire and owner of Puffy Mondaes. She will be coming out with me to the Sock Summit and helping me hostess the big sock.

My name is Heidi, and I will be the voice on this blog over the next several weeks letting you all know about all of the exciting things going on with the Big Sock... The sweet baby appendage in my pack is Lilah, she loves yarn.

The Bigsock has landed in Idaho!

The Bigsock adventure continues in the heart of Idaho's beautiful Treasure Valley, Nampa Idaho then fittingly onto the Sock Summit in Portland Oregon.
We have wonderful plans for the sock while it is visiting.... stay tuned...

for those of you who are wondering... this portion of the bigsock arrived measuring at 5" long.

Big Sock at the Fiber Festival

The latest stop for the Big Sock is Annual Middle Tennessee Fiber Festival in Dickson, TN. Last weekend lots of folks got to knit on it and were amazed at the pictures and how big around it is.

The Sock is in Tennessee

Here at the Knaughty Knitter in Murfreesboro folks are amazed and happy to be working on the sock. Here is the first group to work on it, our Friday Night Knitting Group.

Sock is back in Kenai

And, it was an interesting trip . . . Hubby and I were in Anchorage to see his diabetes specialist - and had picked up the sock at Knitting Grounds before we went over. Somehow I knew his appointment would take longer than the half hour or so promised.

Sure enough the sky had turned dark before we left the doctor's office and were able to get back on the road. Just down from WalMart the heater fan quit - just quit working! I pulled into the parking lot so hubby could check fuses and call the car dealership - it was now almost 5pm so, of course, nobody was in the service department who could look at it. And, as this was the day before Thanksgiving, nobody would be in until Friday - and we needed to get home for the family dinner the next day.

sooooooooooooooooooooooooo

I went into the store and bought a couple of sweaters and some gloves - the temps were falling quickly into the low 20s - so we could drive home.

What a trip! There was a line of about 50 cars from Anchorage proper into Girdwood - then another line of at least 20 from Girdwood on home to the Peninsula. The car worked fine, but the heater fan never did come back on (best guess is that either the fan has gone kaput or the wiring has melted - sigh).

What does this have to do with the Sock? ;) Well, we DID consider pulling it from the box and wrapping up in it to stay warm . . . but I did not want to get it dirty, etc. ;)

We made it home safely and the Sock is sitting on my living room floor waiting for its next destination - that will be one of three places - Columbus, Ohio or Rochester NY or the UK. Joanna and I have emailed back and forth and I may be sending it on to NY or UK as is - and starting another round to send on to Ohio.

The shipping is beginning to become prohibitive - and that sort of takes away the fun of it. Thanks, btw, to whomever tucked an envelope into one of the binders - it contained some money to go towards the shipping. I truly appreciate that.

So . . . I plan to get the Sock out of the box today - unless I hear otherwise in a pretty quick timeline - and begin to take it off needles and put it onto scrap yarn for its trip back to Joanna. Then I will take those needles and begin the new center section - which will eventually make it back to Joanna to be grafted onto the section on which you all have so lovingly worked.

;) And, the race to make the record continues.

Big Sock and Kaladi Brothers Coffee

Mike and Rita busily knit on the Big Sock last week at Kaladi Brothers in Anchorage. They were joined by several others who took turns knitting while a knitting group met over coffee. I've been tickled to see how many male fingers have added stitches while the Sock has been in Alaska.


One more Friday Night Knitting group (tonight) and then the sock will be picked up the 13th to be taken to Fairbanks on the 14th. It'll be hosted by Inua Yarn Store and will come back to Anchorage on the 25th. My hubby and I will pick it up on the 26th to bring it back to Kenai for a couple more weeks before it heads back to the midwest.

Here's Linda busily stitching away . . . she and Pauline have been the most excited over the sock's visit to Alaska. Thanks, Ladies for all of the work you've done promoting it and taking pictures and such.

See you all soon. I'll post more pictures later.


Maybe we'll get some pics from Fairbanks, too!