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The Historic Farmers' Market this Saturday, July 18th, we of Socks Made On 88 will be happy to greet you and show you our products.
The Short Tabbies are only one kind of sock pairs that we carry.

Our colour palette that we use to determine our sizes and Updates too!

 

The top photo shows the range of colours in our palette that we have chosen to represent the sock sizes we create to show and sell.  Our sizes are from Women's size 5 to Men's size 13.  Each size has its own colour of yarn that we tie on our specially made Sock Tags!  And just to mention once again, our Socks are made to match your shoe size!  We have found that this works very well for us and also very well for our customers buying them. A win-win situation.

The 2nd photo shows the 5 colour tags to match the different sizes of Baby Hats we make.  I use our neon coloured business tags that are printed in 5 different colours.  Blue for X-Large, Lime Green for Large, Orange for Medium, Yellow for Small and Pink for Preemie!  I also use the pink tags to mark our Soap Sacks.  

When I take pictures outdoors for my blog,  I like to you use things or flowers in our front or back yards to make the captures reflect some of our personal life. Today features some of our flowering plants in our front garden near our retaining wall.  It is also nice for us to see how our gardens develop over the years and pictures can be looked back upon.

A reminder for our market customers, we will be at the Historic Farmers' Market this coming Saturday, July 18th, the next Saturday after being July 25th and then again August 22, 2015.

As usual our bi-montly schedule will return in September.  If you need to check ahead to see when we will be at the market in the coming months, our yearly schedule is posted over at our website.http://sockson88.wix.com/socks-made-on-88 under the Markets button.

And for those loyal customers of Socks Made On 88, in case you are wondering, we do plan to continue our market stints at the Historic Farmers' Market even with upcoming renovations to take place in the near future.  We love the Historic Farmers' Market as it is our HOME, we are happy to be part of the Cooperative and we are looking forward to the next phase of our adventure there, in whatever capacity is resolved as a whole.

Happy Summer to ALL  :-)

These should keep me busy today!

I am just biding my time as I wait till the mashed potatoes cool off, and then I am going to mix up a batch of fish cakes.  In the mean time I am planning what I am going to do after that, which involves this pile of socks to be kitchenered.  I think I will slide up on my bed (that is my kitchener office) and see if there is a movie on or some mindless tv and get started on these pairs.  I still haven't caught up on the cranking MrB did while I was away.  And he is knitting more today too so I must tackle these, to see how many I get done today!  It is not a very sunny day and calling for rain so perfect little chore to keep me occupied soon.

While the Cat is away the Mouse will play...

I went away for 10 days to vist my grandson and his parents and to spend time with my other son visiting from Alberta also. MrB manned the fort at home and was busy cranking on the deck in the sunshine, making good use of his time, making shortie socks and stock piling for our Christmas season. He uses his spare time in the summer months to do our stock pile knitting.  This seems to work out well for us!

Shortie Socks~ Tabbies and Double Picot Anklets

Stock piling  Mens Socks for the Christmas Season.

The Cat, that would be me, MsB now has lots of socks to kitchener.  I did get a couple pair done up yesterday but I will do some more gradually until I get caught up.  As washing them and numbering them and tagging them needs to be done also.  Vacation time is over, but just until the next one, which is only 4 weeks away.

Getting Cranky in Belfast Maine

We got cranky in Belfast Maine, June 18 - 21, 2015.
You can get cranky in Belfast Maine June 16 -19, 2016!

Good times at Good Karma

MsB made a new friend while out for dinner Friday night!

MrB demonstrating how to make a hat!

The yarn Amy dyed, that MrB cranked to a hat.  Amy is a great model of her new hat!

This is a Speedster, Her name is Tootsie!

Laurie aka Miss Pink intensive in the beginnner class.  She passed with flying colours!

Some of the yarn that dyed on the weekend at Good Karma Farm Crank-in

more dyed yarn!

I didn't get many pictures this year. I think I was just too occupied with socializing and maning the dyeing operation.
But I captured lots of memories to add to my other Good Karma years of visiting.  This was #4.....already looking forward to #5!  It was a great event, great crankers and now more great friends! 

Are we there yet?

Nope, but we are packing, raring to go!  See you tomorrow Good Karma Farm!