Jaywalker WINNERS!

This is the end. Beautiful friend. This is the end. My only friend, the end.

Before I annouce the winners, I just want to say what a FANFUCKINGTASTIC time I had doing this. Yes it got crazy. Yes I lost some sleep. But really, I met so many great people and got to share my love of yarn and this pattern and got to watch other people love the pattern, and sometimes the yarn, and that’s just great. Knitblogging at its finest! I can’t say I’ll be hosting another KAL anytime soon, but I wouldn’t trade this one for the world. And I mean that from the bottom of my heart. Thank you all so much for knitting along! And just so you don’t feel like you’re walking away emtpy handed, I made you all a button. WEAR IT PROUD!!!



Now, to annouce the winners. Let’s bring out the accountants from Ernst & Young to explain the choosing:

The list of winners was dumped into an Excel spreadsheet in the order they appeared in THE LIST. The Internet Random Generator was then employed to choose six integers between 1 and 174. The numbers chosen were: 1 8 97 101 115 156.

And without further ado, the winners are:

ADA

AMY

KERRY

LARISSA

LIZ

SCOUT


(All links are to pictures of the winning socks!)

Congratulations to all the winners! Email me your address and your choice of Socks That Rock. Thanks! For those of you still knitting, KEEP ON KEEPING ON! You will not be disappointed. (And Noelle’s got some buttons for you too.)

THANK YOU ALL FOR KNITTING WITH ME!!!
L, C

Jaywalker Twelve – THE LIST!

Just so you know – I’ve been knitting along with you – right down to the wire! Tonight, at 10:18, I finished my EIGHTH pair of Jaywalkers.

These socks are two repeats longer than my usual. I thought I had a bigger skank so I took a chance on the first sock and added the extra repeats on the leg. I knew immediately upon finishing that I wouldn’t have enough for the second sock, but I ordered more instead of ripping. The color in the second skank is pretty different than the first, but I only used it at the top of the foot, so I don’t think it’s really noticable. I have enough left over for another pair. 😉

ONTO THE LIST! If your name appears here, you will be entered into the drawing at 11:11 PM. If your name does NOT appear here, and you think it should, please send me an email to cara AT januaryone DOT com and let me know. I will check it out and get back to you. Thanks everyone for an AMAZING RIDE!!!

Ada
Adelle
Adrienne
Aija
Alison
Allison
Amanda
Amy
Amy
Amy
AmyP
Angela
Anita
Anita
Anita
Anmiryam
Ann
Anna
Anne
Anne
Annie
Ariel
Becky
Beth
Bethe
BigLug
Bliss
Blueadt
Brenda
Bridget
Carla
Carla
Carmelle
Carol
Carole
Carole
Carrie
Carry
Cece
Chihiro
Chris
Chrissy
Chrissy
Chrissy
Christine
Christy
CJ
Claudia
Cynthia
Deb
Dene
Diann
Ellie
Emily
Eunny
Foogrrl
Gail
Gail
Gwyn
Helen
Helen
Hillary
Holly
Janine
Janine
Jasmin
Jeanne
Jen
Jenn
Jenny
Jenny
Jenny
Jess
Jessica
Jessica
Jessica
Jessica
Jodee
Johanna
Julia
Julia
Julie
Julie
Julsey
KaisaKaisa
Kandy
Karen
Karen Karen
Kate
Katherine
Kathy
KathyB
Katie
Kelly
Kelly
Kerry
Kim
Kris
Kris
Larissa
Laura
Laura
Lauren
Lauren
Lcord
Leah
Leslie
Libby
LibbyLu
Linda
Lisa
Lisa
Lisa
Liz
Liz
Liz
Liz

Lori
Lori
LoriG
Lynda
Manda
Margene
Maria
Maribel
Marie
Marie
Maritza
May
Michele
Michelle
Mimsie
Morgan
Nancy
Nancy
Natalia
Niteowl
Paula
Phoebe
PumpkinMama
PurlPower
Rebecca
Renata
Rhonda
Roberta
Roberta
Robin
Rock Chick
Rosemary
Sandra
Sarah
Sarah
Sarah
Sarah
Scout
Shanidy
Shannon
Sharon
Stacey
Stephannie
Stinkerbell
Susan
Suzanne
Sylvia
Tania
Teresa
Thorn
Tracy
Trek
Vicki
Wannietta
Wendi
Wendy

Jaywalker Admin Stuff – Last Minute REMINDER!

I will be posting THE LIST at 12AM Tuesday, February 14th. That means TONIGHT! Send me an email with Jaywalker Update in the subject line (email cara AT januaryone DOT com) and let me know you’re finished. The list goes up tomorrow for the day so you can argue with me about inclusion etc. and winners will be chosen and posted at 11:11 PM tomorrow night. GOOD LUCK TO ALL!

Jaywalker Eleven!

DONE. Finished. Finito. Baleep Baleep THAT’S ALL FOLKS! The Great Legendary Absolutely FREAKING INSANE Jaywalker KAL is officially CLOSED. NO MORE!

But oh my god it was a blast! Wasn’t it? Sheer madness! As of 2AM last night there were 311 people involved in the KAL. I can assure you that I visited every single one of you at least a half a dozen times. Thank you for inviting me into your homes.

Here’s how the last two weeks are going to work: Check THE LIST. Make sure you’re on it if you think you should be on it. If you finished your pair way back when and for some reason you didn’t get a star next to your name, let me know. If you’re not on the list and you can show evidence as to why you should be on the list, let me know. If you finish your pair, let me know. EXTREMELY IMPORTANT: TO LET ME KNOW SEND ME AN EMAIL WITH THE WORDS JAYWALKER UPDATE IN THE SUBJECT. THE EMAIL ADDRESS IS CARA at JANUARYONE dot COM. I WILL IGNORE ALL UPDATES IN THE COMMENTS.

Here’s how the winning’s going to work:
At midnight on February 14th I will list all of the people eligible AS OF THAT DAY to win yarn. I will keep the list up for the day and at 11:11 PM on the 14th I will pick the winners. You will have the day to let me know if there is a mistake with the list.

Any questions? Email me.

I gotta say, with all the craziness, I hope I haven’t come off as disliking the KAL. In fact, I’m bowled over by it. Proprietary about it. I love it but I hate it. I definitely want my blog back. I want to be able to post something and not have half the comments that day be about jaywalkers when my original post was about spaghetti. I’M NOT BLAMING ANYONE!!! I asked for this. Actually, I’m blaming myself, but that’s a whole other story. The good part of all this – I still LOVE the socks, goddamnit!!! In fact, just this weekend I finished two more and cast on for another two. They will never be old to me!

Legend:

= Everything’s going A OK! Making progress!

= ^&$#$%@ this ^&$^$#%$#%@ SOCK!

= We’re JAYWALKING BAYBEE! FINISHED!!

Adelle
Adrienne

Aija
Allison
Amy
Amy
Amy
AmyP
Anita
Ann
Anne
Annie
Ariel
Beth
Bethe
Bethieee
Bliss
Brenda
Carla
Carla

Carmelle
Carol
Carole
Carole
Carry
Cece
Cheryl
Chihiro
Chrissy
Chrissy
Chrissy
Christine
Claudia
Cynthia
Danielle
Deb
Dene
Diann
Elaina
Elaine
Emily
Emma
Erin
Foogrrl
Gwyn
Hanne
Helen
Helen
Hillary
Holly
Jane
Jasmin
Jennifer
Jenny
Jenny
Jenny
Jessica
Jodee

Johanna
Julia
KaisaKaisa
Kandy
Karen
Karen
Karen
KathyB
Katie
Kelly
Kelly
Kenny
Kris
Lara
Larissa
Laura
Laura
Lauren

Linda
Lisa
Lisa I.
Liz
Lori
LoriG
Lynda
Manda
Maria
Maribel
Marie
Marie

Maritza
Melissa
Miriam
Morgan
Nancy
Nancy

Nicole
Noelle
Paula
Phoebe
Ramona
Rebecca

Renata
Rhonda
Roberta
Roberta
Robin
Robin

Rosemary
Rossana
Sandra
Sarah
Sarah
Sarah
Scout
Shanidy
Shannon
Shelley
Stephannie
Stinkerbell
Susan
Suzanne
Sylvia
Tania
Tara
tgz
Thorn
Tiffany
Tracy
Vicki
Vicki
Wannietta
Wendi
Wendy
Whitney

Jaywalker Admin Stuff – IMPORTANT!

Tomorrow morning, at 6AM, I will be safely seatbelted in (we can only hope) a first class seat on a flight to sunny FLORIDA. I’m taking a vacation people. A VACATION. That means NO WORK. And as much as I love you all and love my jaywalker updates and I’ve come to love my goofy smileys and I’m so glad you have too – I WILL NOT BE DOING UPDATES THIS WEEK.

After ten weeks I think it’s okay to take a little break. Because DEADLINES are fast approaching, I thought yet another look at the draconian rules would be good:

The rules:

1. Knit a pair (or more – hey – I’m going to start my THIRDEIGHTH!) of Jaywalker socks. I know a lot of you have already started a pair – and that counts. But if you’ve finished a pair already, that doesn’t count. Instead, go on over to Kathy‘s and let her know. She’ll add you to the gallery.

2. You don’t have to adhere strictly to the pattern, so all you Drunken Jaywalker people (you know who you are!) come on over.

3. The socks don’t have to be for you. I know everyone’s crazy with holiday knitting (Suckers. I’m just saying….) so why not make a pair of Jaywalkers for that annoying relative in your life? Nothing like a pair of Jaywalker socks to send that subtle message – I wish you’d go play in traffic! You’re the only one who has to know the sentiment behind the gift! 😉

4. You don’t have to knit the socks with SOCKS THAT ROCK yarn – use whatever yarn you like. BUT the prizes will be Socks That Rock.

5. There are no deadlines on when this KAL will end, BUT

6. On February 14th I will draw three SIX names out of the proverbial Internet hat of all the FINISHED KAL socks and each of these people will WIN a skein of SOCKS THAT ROCK in their preferred colorway. That is, assuming I can get Tina to dye it for you. I won’t tell you how many colors are in the recipe book – your head will spin around. To be eligible to win the socks, you will have had to give me at least ONE update before February 1st. I want you to really be in it to win it you know? No pulling in at the last minute with a finished pair of socks to get in on the lottery. 😉

7. Updates will be on FRIDAYS. So leave me comment or email me and I’ll do the updates then. K? Terrific!

THE NEXT UPDATE WILL BE FEBRUARY 1ST. In order to be eligible to win yarn – you need to have updated at least ONCE by FEBRUARY 1ST and complete a pair of socks by FEBRUARY 13th. The drawing will be held on FEBRUARY 14th. So, if you haven’t sent in an update – now’s your chance. PLEASE, when sending updates, either leave A COMMENT RIGHT HERE or send an email to cara AT januaryone DOT com with JAYWALKER UPDATE in the subject line. At midnight on February 14th I will list all of the people eligible AS OF THAT DAY to win yarn. I will keep the list up for the day and at 11:11 PM on the 14th I will pick the winners. You will have the day to let me know if there is a mistake with the list.

I know I miss people each week. I don’t even know how many people are in the KAL anymore, to be honest, but it’s a freaking lot. Okay? I’m only human. If you’re not sure if you are in CHECK THE LIST. If you aren’t on it and think you should be, let me know by leaving a comment or sending an email. A shining star next to your name means you’ve got a finished pair – if you have a star or don’t have a star and think it should be different, let me know. Please note – if you finished a pair since the last update, the list hasn’t been changed to reflect that. I will change it on Feb 1st.

If you have any questions about anything – please leave a comment or send an email. I will tell you though I suck at math and the best answer I have to the all important question of which came first is this:

A chicken and an egg are laying in bed together. The chicken rolls over, lights a cigarette, turns to the egg and says “Well, I guess we answered that question.”

Have a great weekend everyone. Knit hard. I’ll see you on the flip!
L, C

Jaywalker Ten!

Before I get on with the updates, I’d ask you all to bow your heads for a moment of silence. This is the first week, since October 19, 2005, that I did NOT complete a jaywalker sock. I’ve gone back to some other projects and my latest jaywalker has suffered for it and you know what? I miss the damn sock. Much more than I thought I would. Sniff. Sniff. I’m going to Philly tomorrow for the weekend and I’ll be knitting that sock on the train, goshdarnit!

That said, the Albuquerque STITCH AND BITCH (am I allowed to say that?) got together this week and apparently SEVEN knitters cast on for SEVEN pairs of Jaywalkers ALL AT THE SAME TIME. Was it like a feat of sychronized knitting or were you too busy flipping off the camera in your best Johnny Cash to bother with timing? Carole and Scout have pictures to prove it – as if we wouldn’t believe something so ridiculous! JAYWALK ON GIRLS!

Updates? You want updates? You got it. With new and improved smileys. Don’t forget to read the LEGEND, Ann. I’ve also added superfantastic blinky stars to the participant list. If that doesn’t spur you on to finish a pair, I don’t know what will. Oh and if you’re missing from the updates, it’s because I didn’t see anything on your blog. I’m sorry if I missed you. If you’re worried that you aren’t in the KAL, please check the participant list before emailing me. Thank you!

Legend:

= Everything’s going A OK! Making progress!

= ^&$#$%@ this ^&$^$#%$#%@ SOCK!

= We’re JAYWALKING BAYBEE! FINISHED!!

= Special Smiley For Ann

Aija
Amy
AmyP
Ana
Anita
Anmiryam
Ann
Anna
Annie
Becca
Bethe
Bliss
Bridget
Carla
Carla

Carmelle
Caro
Carol
Carole
Carry
Cece
Chris
Chrissy
Chrissy
CJ
Claudia
Cori
Corrina
Deb
Deirdre
Dene
Elaina
Elaine
Emily
Emmy
Foogrrl
Gail
Gail

Helen
Helen
Jen
Jessica
Jessica
Johanna
Julia
Kae
Karen
Kate
Kathy
KathyB
Kelly
Kelly
Kenny
Kerry
Kris
Lara
Laura
Laura
Lcord
Leah
Linda
Lisa
Lisa
Lisa
Liz
Lori
Lu
Lynda
Lynne
Maggi
Margene
Maria
Marie
Marie
Maritza
Megan
Melissa
Michelle
Nancy
Nancy

Noelle
Patti
Paula
PurlPower
Ramona
Rhonda
Rosemary
Sandra
Sarah
Scout
Shannon
Shelley
Stephannie
Stinkerbell
Sylvia
Tania
Tanja
Thorn
Trek
Wannietta
Wendi
Wendy

Jaywalker Nine!

Honeys, we’ve reached the Tipping Point.

It’s 5:13 PM EST on Thursday and we’ve got over 250 people signed up for this KAL. The way things are going, I would wager that by the time I hit publish on this post tomorrow morning ten more people will have signed up. I think I can safely say that this knitalong has reached the proportions of Clapotis, Rogue, Birch – whatever came before that I don’t know. It’s INSANE. I never, ever, in my wildest dreams thought it would come to this. NEVER. I have to say, honestly, it’s making me a little bit uncomfortable. I was reading over at Stephannie’s today and she had a very compelling post. I’m quoting it with her permission:

“There’s an interesting tension in the knitting world…. It’s about whether to join a trend on the blogs.

Do you knit the Jaywalker socks or not? If you really like them and have sock needles free and the right yarn, are you a mindless trend follower or are you just knitting what you like, recognizing that lots of other knitters like it too? How does something become a big knitting trend anyway–the next Birch or Clapotis or Jaywalker or Rogue?

In the end it shouldn’t really matter to anyone else what you knit or what you do with your knits. We all come to this craft with differing sets of motivations and desires and that’s what makes it fun. Yesterday at Lettuce Knit (yes, I finally attended a Stitch’n’Bitch and had a great time) there was a woman knitting a beautiful Jade Starmore steeked stole, two of us making jaywalker socks, some blankets, a baby sweater and a nifty-box in progress. Some swore they would never make Jaywalker socks now that they are the thing, others were thinking about it despite the teasing of their friends.

Really in the big world out there, we are not a trendsetting sub-culture that will be on the cover of People magazine, we won’t get to the front of the line at the “right” bars because we knit. And we like it that way. We’re used to be on the outside of what the media deems as popular culture. So who cares if a bunch of us knits the same thing?”

Steph’s post came a very interesting time for me – what with my inbox filling up every five seconds with people wanting to get in on the KAL. I, myself, follow along the lines of I knit what I knit when I want to knit it and am not one to follow trends – in knitting or in my life in general. In fact, I’m often one of those people that WON’T go along with the crowd – sort of following Groucho’s maxim: I wouldn’t want to be a member of any club that would have me as a member. Along those lines, this is my reply to Stephannie:

This is such a tough question for me! I’m generally one who really likes to go along with my own thing – only knitting things I really want to knit.

I have knit Clapotis – and I enjoyed it. It was the perfect gift for a friend and I got to use glorious silk yarn and over all I was very pleased with it. That said, I haven’t knit any of the other knits you listed. Except of course The Jaywalker.

Ah the jaywalker. As I said before, I knit what I want to knit. How did I find the sock? Well, I had come home from Rhinebeck with a lot of STR, lol, and was looking for the perfect pattern. I really don’t like the whole feather and fan sock thing – at all – and I’m not a real chevron fan either – although an argument could be made that the Jaywalker is a chevron. There was something about the clean lines and stripey goodness and I cast on. I never swatched. I never deliberated about size. I just cast on and started to knit and I LOVED the way the yarn looked. And of course, I love the STR. I mean how could you not love that yarn? But anyway, back to jaywalkers. I was EXTREMELY lucky in that the pattern fit right off the bat, if not a tad tight over the heel, and I managed to make a pair without running out of yarn and it really was one of those fated yarn things where the pattern and the yarn and the wearer all kind of had a kismet relationship.

So I tried to see if I could duplicate that lightning strike again. And I did. And I did. And believe it or not I cast on for sock #14 last night. I’ve got six pairs of finished jaywalkers with no end in sight.

Did I mean to start some kind of crazy knitblog fad? ABSOLUTELY NOT! In fact it’s starting to drive me a bit crazy all those jaywalkers out there. Believe it or not, I feel COMPLETELY AND TOTALLY responsible when someone has fit trouble or runs out of STR or basically hates the sock.

The only reason I keep knitting them is because I love how they look and I love how they feel on my feet. I love the yarn. In fact I have all this other non-STR sock yarn that would be perfect for jaywalkers and I can’t do it. It’s like they have to be STR, for ME, or nothing else. And I’ve seen some great jaywalkers out there with other yarns, yarns I have in stash, but I guess my goal is to work my way through the small(er) skeins of STR in the stash – stuff I know how to make a pair of fantastic socks with.

Each pair I cast on is my new favorite pair. I completely understand the idea of I’ll never make them because everyone else is making them and honestly, I’ve done that in my life. Not wanted to do something because everyone else is doing it. At this point I’m like THANK YOU! That’s one less update I have to worry about. 😉 Although it also makes me a little bit sad because, you know, I do think it’s a great pattern.

In the end, what’s so AMAZINGLY WONDERFUL about knitting is that there’s stuff like this out there! You can knit what everyone else is knitting, or you can’t or you can make up something on your own or be inspired by something else or knit dishclothes all day long and be EXTRAORDINARILY HAPPY! How LUCKY are we to have found such an amazingly diverse outlet for our creativity!

Thanks for your post and I’m sorry to take up so much space – I probably should’ve saved this for my own blog. But it’s something I’ve been thinking a lot about – feeling guilty I guess – and wanted to get my feelings off my chest.

So, that’s how I feel. I appreciate all those people out there that say Clapotis, Schmapotis. Rogue, Schmogue. Birch, Schmirch. And of course, Jaywalker, Schmaywalker. If I had come along right now, with all those Jaywalkers out there and jaywalker jaywalker jaywalker I would think twice about it too. I honestly would. Which is kind of a shame because I know what a great pattern it is FOR ME and how nice MY YARN looks knit up with it and how comfortable it feels on MY FEET. And I have no problem knitting it over and over again. BUT I understand that there are people that knit something once and have to move on. There are no WRONGS in knitting. NONE WHATSOVER. We need to knit what we need to knit when we need to knit it. And for those who don’t want to jaywalk, I’ve made you your own button:

Dudes! I’m all inclusive! No one should be left out! Which brings me to my next problem. I can’t keep up with you people. When it was a small group of say 100 people, I could write up all my superfantastic updates and trust me when I tell you I had a lot of fun doing it! It’s great fun to go and visit all your blogs week after week – especially the ones I don’t normally read. But now, now I can’t. It takes hours to go through all the blogs and honestly, the updates you send me end up getting lost in the shuffle with all the sign-up comments and I’m not as organized as I’d like to be, so what I’m going to do is list everyone who has an update with a link to their blog post, and if you’re a non-blogger I will still post your pictures and where you’re at in the progress. I’m sorry. My only other alternative is to close the KAL
and I just feel like I can’t do that. We’ve got over a month to go in the KAL – or at least until the winners are announced, and I just know the updates are going to get bigger and bigger and I need to do other things. Sometimes at least. I hope you all understand. I just hate disappointing people! HATE IT!

That said, MY OWN SOCK updates will go on forever. Yes, I’ve finished another pair of jaywalkers. Introducing: TWO POP ROCKS!

Remember this song, Two of Hearts? 80’s Madonna like, artist is Stacey Q? I always thought it sounded like Two Pop Tarts. (Apparently I’m not alone either.) So the whole time I’m knitting these socks I’ve got that song playing in my head. Made for interesting knitting that’s for sure. Suddenly I’d burst out with Two Pop Tarts and G would start laughing at me. Craziness. These jaywalkers are making me CRAZY!

I tried to do the whole sexy shoe thing like Anna, but I don’t really have many sexy shoes. I’m a Merrell girl. But I did find the shoes I wore for my wedding, which happened to be dyed in almost the exact pink of the POP ROCK Jaywalker. Here’s the artsy fartsy shit I came up with:

Um, my calves aren’t that big. I mean they’re not skinny or anything they’re nice and shapely and the one in the picture above just looks weird.

Oh and in case you were all wondering, I immediately cast on for another pair. Yeah. I can HEAR you all groaning.

I swear to God – this is my favorite Jaywalker YET! I SWEAR! And before you all jump all over me about the yarn, this is Socks That Rock, BUT it’s a Rare Gem which means there is NO OTHER YARN LIKE IT IN THE WORLD. Rare Gems are skeins that don’t quite make it to the color they’re supposed to be, so they become like blank canvases for Tina and she does whatever her genius deems necessary at that moment. They are truly rare gems. Sorry y’all. This one’s mine. 😉

Which leads me to my last point before I start with YOUR updates. Kris, my better than the best better pal, said something really profound on her finished jaywalker post, she said:

“what is wrong with me? i never want to do a pattern twice. there’s something strange with this pattern – just look at cara; she’s up to double digits soon – it is just so brilliant in combination with self-striping or variegated yarn that you can’t help yourself, you need to try it one more time to see if it’s as gorgeous in another yarn.”

Couldn’t have said it better myself! BRING ON THE JAYWALKERS!
(Updates in the extended entry!)

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Jaywalker Admin Stuff

I’m still taking sign-ups – I don’t think I’ll be closing it ever – but if you want to sign up – PLEASE – say you want to sign up. Just because you leave a comment on an update telling me you’ve started your socks doesn’t automatically tell me you want to be on the list. Thank you!

Also, there’s over 200 people signed up for this thing now – if I don’t see an update by 8PM EST Thursday evening, I can’t guarantee you’ll be in the updates – even if you send me an email. I’m sorry, but it’s just taking too long to do these suckers, and well, I’m a crazy ass perfectionist so I want to do them right. And if you have a blog – UPDATE your blog. I check each and every blog on the list – so no blog entry – no update.

One last thing – please don’t join at the last minute with your finished socks. Be in it to win it – I want to see at least ONE update of the socks IN PROGRESS before February 1st in order for you to be eligible to win and those socks MUST BE FINISHED by February 13th for the drawing on February 14th. It’s a Knit ALONG people, not a knit by yourself and then jump in for the prize. Oh and speaking of prizes, since there are so many knitters signed up now, I’m going to up the prize to SIX SKEINS OF SOCKS THAT ROCK to be given away. That’s double the chance to win. GO KNIT!

Jaywalker Eight!

Hey Everybody! Hope you had a kick ass holiday season and are ready to start the year off right – JAYWALKING. Although, I have to say, you guys are KILLING ME! Don’t you people knit anything else? Here we are at week eight and at last count we have 184 participants! CRAZY! I thought I’d go over the rules again.

The rules:

1. Knit a pair (or more – hey – I’m going to start my THIRD! SIXTH? SEVENTH? I’ve lost count frankly) of Jaywalker socks. I know a lot of you have already started a pair – and that counts. But if you’ve finished a pair already, that doesn’t count. Instead, go on over to Kathy‘s and let her know. She’ll add you to the gallery.

2. You don’t have to adhere strictly to the pattern, so all you Drunken Jaywalker people (you know who you are!) come on over.

3. The socks don’t have to be for you. I know everyone’s crazy with holiday knitting (Suckers. I’m just saying….) so why not make a pair of Jaywalkers for that annoying relative in your life? Nothing like a pair of Jaywalker socks to send that subtle message – I wish you’d go play in traffic! You’re the only one who has to know the sentiment behind the gift! 😉

4. You don’t have to knit the socks with SOCKS THAT ROCK yarn – use whatever yarn you like. BUT the prizes will be Socks That Rock.

5. There are no deadlines on when this KAL will end, BUT

6. On February 14th I will draw three names out of the proverbial Internet hat of all the FINISHED KAL socks and each of these people will WIN a skein of SOCKS THAT ROCK in their preferred colorway. That is, assuming I can get Tina to dye it for you. I won’t tell you how many colors are in the recipe book – your head will spin around. To be eligible to win the socks, you will have had to give me at least ONE update before February 1st. I want you to really be in it to win it you know? No pulling in at the last minute with a finished pair of socks to get in on the lottery. 😉

7. Updates will be on FRIDAYS. So leave me comment or email me and I’ll do the updates then. K? Terrific!

Capisce? Capisce.

Ready. Set. UPDATE!

~ Seriously, she LOVES them! Don’t get the wrong idea about Adelle‘s jaywalkers. Yes, girl, they are so purty! And it doesn’t matter when you get them done – but that you LOVE them! And you do!

~ Slow and steady wins the race! Check out Amy‘s socks!

~ AmyP‘s got toe-up jaywalkers in kool-aid colors! YAY for hand dyes that WORK!

~ No socks, but it’s BIRTHDAY WEEK over at Anita‘s and you know how we feel about birthdays! Have a GREAT ONE!

~ Super Sleuth Ann‘s looking for the Creature of the Black Lagoon! She’s got STR Lagoon socks rocking! Hey, Ann baby, can I call you Nancy?

~ MEEEOOOWWW! Check out Anna‘s AMAZING sexy frilly fun jaywalkers! It’s insane what a little modification can do – picot edge BABY! I LOVE IT!

~ BigLug‘s got a ROCKING finished pair! Magic Loop indeed! Not convinced you’re a sock knitter – honey pie – you’ve made JAYWALKERS – the KING of socks! (I say Xmas Rock too.)

~ Oooh! Oooh! Another down to the wire Jaywalker finish! But Bridget wins by a nose with her gorgeous FINISHED pair! YAY!

~ Add Carmelle to the rip list! But things are on track now. Welcome Carmelle!

~ Carole‘s SECOND pair are finished! Do I smell an addict in the making? NOT MY FAULT! 😉

~ Now I may not be one to judge, but jaywalkers to match your furniture?! Cori‘s socks match her couch. Thankfully she’s got a pretty couch. I’m just saying. (Oh and while you’re over there, check out Cori’s STR XMAS TREE! Man your hubby ROCKS!) ETA: Cori’s teeth are FREE! And look how PRETTY! Oh yeah. Between the writing of this update and this morning, Cori ripped out her couch matching Jaywalkers. She’s caught PICOT fever.

~ Look at Deb‘s sad socks, all rolled up in her knitting bag! TAKE THEM OUT! LET THE JAYWALKERS FREE! Please? We want to see. ETA: Ask and you shall receive!

~ Ellie needs a vacation from her vacation (don’t we all!) but she still managed some excellent progress on her solid jaywalkers. Looking good!

~ OH MY GOD! You MUST check out the beautiful sheepys on Felicia‘s blog! And the GORGEOUS dye job she just finished. And oh yeah, the KICK ASS jaywalker in her own hand painted sock yarn. (Available for purchase right over here. 😉 )

~ Not quite sure what this says about the movie, but Helen made some excellent progress on her pretty purple jaywalkers CROSSwalkers during King Kong. That is until the kids got scared. Jurassic Jaywalkers. I like it! ETA: SHHHHH! Helen thinks there’s a curse going on over at her place. King Kong no likey knitting during the movie!

~ Holly‘s first FO of 2006 just so happens to be a P
AIR OF JAYWALKERS in some gorgeous Tess’s Sock Yarn! Woot! She says she’ll knit another pair, but maybe not as many as me. I’m telling you people, they’re like POTATO CHIPS. You can’t just have one.

~ Mismatched is still a match! Check out Jen‘s one of each socks! I say go back to the zinnia Jen!

~ Check out Jenny‘s FINISHED pair! Not really stripey, but oh so pretty!

~ Two at a time is fine over at Jessica‘s! She’s trying not to sweat the small stuff this year and I say keep on keeping on!

~ Um, Julie‘s named her sock. Cedric. It’s still pretty freaking cool, even with a name like Cedric. (NO offense to all you Cedric’s out there. Really.) 😉

~ So, Julsey, how was New Year’s? You know it’s been almost a week already. Hangover’s don’t last that long do they? Julsey? Come back! Your gorgeous Jaywalker is sitting at home waiting for you! (Is that Vesper yarn? Looks like Vesper.)

~ The socks went to Disneyland! And they came back finished! So did Karen! The pattern hurt her hands, so she’s back to stockinette, but your friend is going to be SO happy.

~ Kim couldn’t go to sleep the other night until she finished her jaywalkers! Oh Kim, we know that compulsion all too well! Beautiful pair in Steinbach Wolle Aktiv Color 100!

~ My bestest better pal Kris finished a fabulous sock for the new year! Hey BP, where’s the second one? Don’t leave me hanging – you’ve got lots of socks to knit what with all that FABU sock yarn someone sent you! 😉

~ Apparently Laura has some freakishly long toes (and I say that in the nicest way!) But she still managed to close up the toe, non-kitchener style, on her first Jaywalker! Nice work, Laura!

~ The other Laura (this week at least) has TOE! Now let’s see some FOOT!

~ Leah‘s got a KICK ASS jaywalker! Her first sock! YAY! (But, seriously, I DO knit other things besides socks. Have you seen my Almost Everyday Cardigan? What about my Diamond Fantasy Shawl? I’m in a kind of zone thing with the socks, okay? But that’s not ALL I knit. Really. It’s not. I can knit anything I want any time I want. SHUT UP! I can so!)

~ Lisa FINISHED a gorgeous pair of Jaywalkers! Just beautiful! And guess what she did then? Huh? Can you guess? She cast on for ANOTHER PAIR. DO NOT RESIST THE JAYWALKER. It’s futile.

~ Lisa‘s socks may never grow up! Well, I hope they do, but she did take them to see Peter Pan. Could be trouble. FINISH LISA FINISH!

~ Lisa, may I interest you in a Got Gauge? T-shirt? Right side bar. Or maybe Swatch-N-Bitch is more your speed. 😉

~ The Good Humor guy stopped off at Liz‘s and dropped off some FINISHED ICE CREAM JAYWALKERS! That’s Vesper’s Neopolitan colorway if I know my stash and they look FABULOUS!

~ Liz has got her jaywalkers all figured out – she even has the yarn lined up for her NEXT pair (way to prepeare LIZ!) And as a testament to the greatness that is the Jaywalker, despite all that BAD math, she still loves knitting them! Whew!

~ (Yet ANOTHER) Liz is totally zen with her jaywalker – even if it does have a little green in it. Way to be one with the sock Liz!

~ Her name is Margaux and she’s a jaywalker addict. Was there ever any doubt?

~ Mimsie‘s got some FINISHED Garnet Dreams! Beautiful!

~ Patty, sweetie, ripping is still progress! I promise! I like to keep a size #0 needle around for picking up stitches after frogging. I put the stitches on the 0 needle, then transfer them to the #1. Easy peasy. Oh and just so you know, I’ve frogged I think all of my jaywalkers at least once somewhere in the knitting. 🙂

~ YEAH Money! Way to kick that knitting’s ASS! Renata – you are the BOSS!

~ Roberta, doll, the sock is SOOOOOOO Pretty – and the baby – SO DANG CUTE! Awwwww!

~ Robyn says she’s made progress and all and it’s so cool but it’s boring to show a picture and ahem, Robyn? JAYWALKERS ARE NEVER BORING! No matter what stage they’re in! SHOW PICTURES! 😉

~ Rosemary‘s got some EXCELLENT FINISHED Draco socks! Um, Rosemary? What’s a Draco and should we be afraid?

~ Ruth‘s starting the year off right by knitting socks from her stash. Jaywalkers, natch. In Ravenclaw from Sunshine Yarns. Lovely!

~ Rainbow Brite! Rainbow Brite! Rainbow Brite! Hey Sandra my votes for RAINBOW BRITE!

~ Scout‘s learning all about the selfish knit – way to go Scout! Knit for yourself at all times! Oh and check out her fly new job. Stashalong. Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

~ Shannon‘s STR Fluorite socks are DONE! Stick a fork in them. AWESOME!

~ DUDE! Sharon is SO giving me a RUN FOR MY MONEY! She’s got five pair ALREADY FINISHED and is working on her SIXTH! Must knit faster, must knit faster, must knit faster.


From l to r: STR Watermelon Tourmaline, STR Lapis, Cherry Hill supersock Water(potluck),
Cherry Hill supersock Serengeti, Fleece Artist Wines and Fleece Artist Jester (sock in progress)

~ Stacey, sweetheart, your feet ARE SMILING! Hell, they’re laughing their asses off at those rocking FINISHED Jaywalkers!

~ Susan‘s starting the year on safari with her ZEBRA jaywalkers! Make sure you’ve got your pith helmet on when you knit those!

~ Tara gave me a very sweet birthday present! She started her first pair of jaywalkers. Awww. Thanks Tara!

~ Tracy knit up some SUPERFANTASTIC FINISHED SOCKS! She tipped the ribbing and the toes with a contrast color and man do they ROCK! Much FUN!

~ Jaywalker ROCKS! Nuff said. Thanks Trek!

~ Vicki‘s jaywalkers are so freaking great they freeze me right in my tracks. Or should I say I’m PETRIFIED?! Love em!

~ I’m betting that by the time you read this, Wannietta‘s got that gorgeous red jaywalker finished. Because, you know what, Wannietta was meant to knit. No doubt.

Late Additions:

Margene, are you ready to prove it all night? THUNDERCRACK!
Sarah, Happy Blogiversary! You’ve come a long way BABY!

If I missed you this week, tough patooties. This stuff is hard! Leave me a comment HERE and I’ll get you next week. Thanks everyone! Have a great weekend!

Jaywalker Seven!

First things first.

Yesterday I finished my fifth pair of Jaywalkers – my third since the knit along started. These are Azurite STR. You know what that means? Let’s do the math! I first blogged about Jaywalkers on October 20, which means I started knitting on October 19th. Yesterday was December 29. That means that in 70 days, I knit FIVE pairs of Jaywalkers. That’s a sock a week people! That’s got to be some kind of record, no? This morning I laid them all out in their glory.

Since this week it’s all about me (I mean c’mon – it’s my blog – I can brag a little – and my birthday IS two days away!) I’m taking the easy way out on the updates. They will return, in the extended fabulousness, next week. HAPPY NEW YEAR!

~ Happy New Year! Check out Amanda‘s socks!

~ Happy New Year! Check out Anne‘s finished socks!

~ Happy New Year! Check out Bethe‘s finished hybrid socks! And the ones she just started!

~ Happy New Year! Check out Carole‘s socks!

~ Happy New Year! Say a prayer for Corrina‘s socks!

~ Happy New Year! Check out Ellie‘s socks!

~ Happy New Year! Check out Gail‘s finished socks!

~ Happy New Year! Check out Helen‘s socks!

~ Happy New Year! Check out Holly‘s socks!

~ Happy New Year! Check out Jeanne‘s finished socks!

~ Happy New Year! Check out Jen‘s socks!

~ Happy New Year! Check out Jenny‘s socks!

~ Happy New Year! Check out Jess‘s finished socks! (December 26th entry.)

~ Happy New Year! Check out Kate‘s finished socks!

~ Happy New Year! Check out Katherine’s finished socks!

~ Happy New Year! Check out Kelly‘s socks!

~ Happy New Year! Check out Kris‘s doomed socks!

~ Happy New Year! Check out Kris‘s socks!

~ Happy New Year! Check out Laura‘s socks!

~ Happy New Year! Check out Lauren’s finished socks!

~ Happy New Year! Check out Lisa‘s socks!

~ Happy New Year! Check out Liz‘s socks!

~ Happy New Year! Check out Liz‘s finished socks!

~ Happy New Year! Check out Liz‘s socks! (She needs your vote as well!)

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Happy New Year! Check out Manda‘s socks! (Manda, darling, you’re the PSYCHO, not me! No one dies during updates!)

~ Happy New Year! Check out Marie‘s socks!

~ Happy New Year! Check out Margene‘s socks!

~ Happy New Year! Check out Naomi‘s two-color socks!

~ Happy New Year! Check out Renata‘s socks!

~ Happy New Year! Check out Robyn‘s socks!

~ Happy New Year! Check out Rosemary‘s socks!

~ Happy New Year! Check out Sandra‘s socks!

~ Happy New Year! Check out Shannon‘s socks!

~ Happy New Year! Check out Tracy‘s socks!

~ Happy New Year! Check out Vicki‘s socks!

I leave you with this:

Yeah. That’s right. I’m rubbing it in! 😉