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

Sunday, 20 April 2014

Stocking-Piling of our cranking has begun for the Christmas Season

We have markets scheduled to do Sat April 26th and May 10th on Mother's Day weekend. After that MrB will be focusing on making our Left-Over pairs and stock piling them for the Christmas season. As we will be only attending the market once a month in May, June, July and August which we consider to be our off-season.
Our drawers are full of Left-Overs and ready to be cranked for sock pairs! MrB got one pair completed to begin our stock-piling. We sat down and also set our goals of how many sock pairs we want to stock-pile in total. This year we decided also how many left-overs of each size we wanted, and ribbed, and are a touch bit more organized in that department this year as compared to last year. We have a better handle on how many pairs we may need that last market day before Christmas and we know that we need more than 60 pairs in addition to what we take for each regular market. We will have a Deranged pair or two to throw into our mix hopefully also. And you just never know, MrB may scare up some lace work pairs too, if he gets really ambitious throughout the summer.