Our CSM venture- Socks Made On 88

MrB is the cranker in this venture. He creates hand-cranked knitted wool socks made on our Circular Sock Machine, we call Brigadier 88! It is the #88th Erlbacher Gearhart Knitting Machine newly made. Me, MsB is the cranky assistant (not) :-) that runs the business side of things,networking,doing the sock tags,yarn ordering,kitchener stitching and more. MrB is studious,and is constantly cranking out new pairs of SOCKS Made on 88! Our story and my blog unfolds here... it all began Jan.3, 2012

Tuesday 20 August 2013

More Left-Overs (Tweedish)

MsB from Socks Made On 88

Great way to use up similar yarn as these which I call, Tweedish! More of our Left-Over sock pairs!

Deranged, Part 2

History of our new named left-over socks, Deranged! We wanted to make more left-over socks, and come up too with something different. We needed a name unique to us. So being familiar with the crazy socks, and kids wearing a different coloured sock as a pair I wanted a name somewhat similar to them. What better way to find a name than go to "Roget's Thesaurus" and type in the word "crazy". I started to read the word selections out loud and both MrB and I said yup, "Deranged" they are! I came up with the concept of having 4 or more the same size and then the customer can pick which 2 socks he or she wants to make his or her individual pair. I love this idea, but then I am off the wall sometimes and everyone else may not agree with me. We have made our first "Deranged" selections in a woman's size 8 so that if the idea does not fly they will be mine! I am very cool with wearing socks that do not match. I have already done that once at the market and got lots of comments but that was on me, will they themselves go that far to buy a very unique not-matched-at- all pair! Well we will soon find out. We are hoping to debut our Deranged Left-over socks this Saturday at the market. We have requests for other sizes we will certainly make them. It's an excellent way to use of all the left-over yarn and they are easier for MrB to knit also as he does not have to worry about getting each sock similar in colour coding and counting rows to keep them the same or near same! DERANGED... here we come!

MsB from Socks Made On 88

DERANGED... nope not us but our socks!

Saturday 10 August 2013

Pail of or Pile of...Socks!

This is what you have when you take a short hiatus, you come back to washing and drying your socks,that you used on your camping trip.

A pail of or pile of Socks! posted by MsB of Socks Made On 88

And then to upon returning, MrB cranks away because he wants to and doesn't "have" to as we are not doing markets every 2nd week as usual. A little of bit of extra time gives him time to practice other things too.