All dressed and ready to go! When is it market time?

So excited to find these treasures today at a local Antique and Collectibles store

Two Shoe Molds, Men's 10 and larger and the other one fits a Women's 9 sock perfectly!

The two shoe molds below standing in front of our sign.  For our Dec.6th Market they will be dressed with socks!

LOWER COURTYARD, find us there this Saturday at the Historic Farmers' Market

Look for this sign at the top of the Upper Courtyard near the Musician Stage pointing to the Lower Courtyard.  We will be down the stairs and towards the door of the Yoga establishment.  The market starts for the public this Sat. Nov 22 at 7am and runs to 1pm.  If you end up having trouble finding us and are in the Upper Courtyard, just ask Amanda of The Humble Burdock Farm or Mercedes of Pickled Pink and either of them will be to direct you to our display area!

Derranged, how they all began!

From these...

To these!

We aren't DERRANGED, but these are!

1st set "Derranged" Socks for Xmas Gift-giving 2014, Pick 2 for a Pair!

Time of Year to use up our Left-Overs again!

MrB has been very busy knitting up our Left-Overs.  Here is a picture of the last of the Men's Left-Overs completed for the Christmas Rush.  We will have them out on our display at the Market for December 6th and December 20th.

Examples of Our, SMO88,  Left-Overs- One of Kind Sock Pairs!

  MrB is also working on getting some our "Derranged" Socks done also.  They will also be available the same above mentioned dates for Christmas Treats!  We made both last year,and they were very much both HITS! Customers have already been asking if we will have both again.  And just to remind you, if you missed my post last year about why these socks are created by Socks Made On 88, I will explain again.  For our left-overs we use are immediate left-overs from making our regular hung-hemmed and ribbed sock pairs.  Then the left-overs of the left-overs are used for our Derranged socks.  The leftover sock pairs have a precise pattern that MrB uses and compiles 6-7 colourways to use to his desired pattern. 

For the Derranged socks in which he makes 4 of one size and the first interested person gets to pick the first 2 socks to make a Derranged Pair!  They are no near the same at all, either of the 4 to choose from.  They are created by winding all the left-overs of the left-overs joined together to get our large balls of yarn! 

 Then MrB just cranks them out one by one adding new balls he has created by one one.  The patterns in the Derranged socks have no rhyme or reason some may have longer patterns occurring than others.  They are simply a mish-mash  of whatever is cranked  out to form the sock! 

Yes MrB is using the 60 cylinder as he is cranking out sizes Women's 6-10  "DERRANGED"  SOCKS!

One Derranged Sock done and on to Derranged Sock #2, you can see the green and orange hung-hemmed cuff!

The wound ball is nearing its end and the next ball will have to be retrieved to finish the 4th sock! SMO88 is proud of our Derranged creations :-)

To all our anxious customers, look for the Left-Over One of Kind and Derranged Socks at our show and sell display on December 6th and December 20, 2014 at the Historic Farmers' Market!  

Our next stint, at the market will be Saturday, November 22, and we will have a larger stock of socks available to choose from.   That stock will include Hung-Hemmed, Ribbed and our Shortie-Tabs.  I will be back closer again toward next Saturday to remind you again, and also let you know of our display location.  The Website and Facebook page of Socks Made On 88, will both be updated also and give you the information you will need to find us.

On November 11th

WE WILL REMEMBER!

MrB and I love our retirement jobs!

MrB is busy cranking, cranking, cranking, knitting, knitting, knitting now till  Dec. 17th or so.  Our last market before Christmas is December 20th!

I have put many hours in myself.  I kitchenered 6 pairs of socks this afternoon and that has become a semi-daily ritual and I very much like to include it in my days. 

Tonight I am busy making an abundance of Sock Tags!  Time to replenish my stock.  I very much love all my duties within Socks Made On 88, and that must be why I enjoy my job because it doesn't seem like work ...it is fun!

And there is no question that MrB loves his job too!  He has many sock pairs to show for his passion.

Thank you, Thank you, to our Market Customers!

We had a great day today at the market, and that is because of YOU!  MrB and I very much appreciate your patronage. Our next market stint will be November 22, 2014.

Socks Made On 88 ~ market tomorrow ~ Look for us in the Lower Courtyard!

Please look for us in the Lower Courtyard at Historic Farmers' Market tomorrow, 7am-1pm~ THANKS!

Chillier Days Ahead!

The last few days the fire has been burning to keep the house warm.
And this is a reminder too, that you can keep your tooties warm by wearing socks from Socks Made On 88. And YES, we will be at the Historic Farmers' Market this coming Saturday, November 8, 2014.

Please look for our neon yellow and green signs.  If we are in the Upper Courtyard the large sign will be directly in front of our display.  If we are in the Lower Courtyard a smaller sign will direct you from the top of the Upper Courtyard. 

When our exact location is determined Friday night, I will then update that location as a post on our facebook page, here at my blog and also a quick note on our website under our "Markets" page.  Thanks so much, keep your eyes peeled!

This is the neon yellow and green sign that will have a red arrow pointed to the Lower Courtyard .... if we are to be there!

This is How, I wash our socks, wash our socks, wash our socks!

Socks in our sock bag from this week,  that I have brought down to the laundry room to wash.

My socks are washed inside out because I have a skin condition on my feet. All our Opal socks are washed in warm  to hot water with liquid detergent.

I put all the socks in a pail once washed.  Then I prepare my wash sink with warm water to rinse them.

This is my second batch of socks!  These ones are of different more delicate yarns like Shelridge, Good Karma, Alisons, Brown Sheep and Lisa Socks. This batch is being washed in Cold water and Cold water rinse too.  We wear all kinds of yarns as you can see. But we mainly just sell OPAL and (Shelridge which is a Canadian Yarn), to our customers.

All of our this weeks socks are washed and rinsed, all in my handy-dandy pail to carry them from the laundry room to our entrance room where the wood fire is burning nicely today!

Socks laying flat on towels by the fire!  Nice and cozy warm. Please note normally they are not this close to the wood fire.  It was just easier to take the blog pic so you could see the wood stove also.  You can notice by the last towel of socks drying, which are mine, that I seemed to have a purple palette going for wear this week.

Look! Our sock bag is all empty now and will soon be awaiting the next week's sock collection.

A Chilly-Willy Morn in NS

It's a chilly- willy morning here in Nova Scotia today.  The wood stove is burning and MrB is cranking away.  Me, MsB is semi-lazy this morning.  It is a good morning though since the wood stove is on, to actually wash all the socks we wore this week.  I hand wash them and then lay them by the fire flat on a towel to dry.  When I get up in the morning I tend to grab the pair of socks laying on the floor first thing in the morning and that is what I did this morning. Now later in the day I got to my two small sock drawers full of socks to choose which ones will be the lucky chosen ones for today.
Look which ones will I pick? 

It was interesting that earlier today I was talking to a friend of mine in Texas.  She asked me if it was chilly here today and I replied yes.  Then to find out it was actually cooler there in Texas. They refer to us, as the NORTH, here in Nova Scotia.  It is 5C here or 41F it was 3C there in Texas.  That actually puts a smile on my face!  Well, my feet are happy for today, and they are getting Hugs from Socks Made On 88. 

If you are any of our market customers reading this entry, we are not at the market today, but we will be there next week!!  And remember to possibly look for us set up in the Lower Courtyard but when I know where we are I will try and remember to post the location here and over at our facebook page too.  Happy Saturday to All near and far!

Which sock pair should I wear today?

Oh!  I think I will pick these ones!

See they do go well with my leisure pants/jammies as it just may be a Jammie-day!