No Mr. Grinch at the market today!

There certainly was no Mr. Grinch at the market today!
Here is a Grinch quote:
"Your heart is full of unwashed socks, your soul is full of gunk, Mr. Grinch"

We had an absolutely fantastic day at the market for sales today.  Sales surpassed our most outrageous dreams!!  A great big thank you to all our customers today and every day.  It was our last market before Christmas and last market for the year 2012.  What a day, what a day, what a day to end the year! We look very much in returning in the New Year! In  January we plan to be at the market twice in the month, so look out, 2nd and 4th Saturday for Socks Made On 88! I say to our customers:
 
"Your heart is full of wanting our Socks, your soul is full of kindness!
No Mr. Grinch at our market today! Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays,  to one and all!  ( MrB passes along his best wishes also)

MsB from Socks Made On 88

PS
In case I forget to post tomorrow, December 23, 2012, it will one year, since the arrival of our Erl- Brigadier 88, making his new home at our house in Canada! This is when our CSM journey took the first baby steps before Socks Made On 88 was born January 3, 2012.. when I first began this whole story unfolding in blog form.  We will celebrate on Jan 3, 2013 without a doubt! ~B



 



 
   

matching combo

Matching combo! Hat, scarf and socks!
They had all been cranked out months ago but I never did get a photo of them all together.   The scarf is mine and the hat and socks are for Show and Sell!

MsB from Socks Made On 88 

Toned down what I call: purple-taupe!

These are women's size 9!

 We have bright and colourful selections already in this size so we needed to add a pair of a more conservative colour.  I picked these to be knit, and I think they will be a good choice to add, to try and balance out the brightness and dullness of the different pairs offered up for the customers to buy.  This pair has very nice striping with some pink and blue added in the hue of the self-striping pattern. I really like them... someone else will like them too!

MsB from Socks Made On 88

Brightness for the market rack!

The market rack in the section for Women's size 8, needs more brightness!   Bright colours seem to be the best sellers for women.  So here are two more to add to our selection for the upcoming market for Saturday morning.  Our women size 8 selection was depleting of brightness and colour.  These two additions are bound to add a little more pazazz to the sock rack, for those last minute Christmas shoppers!

Adding some more Brightness and Colour to our Women's size 8 selection

Our OOAK's (one of a kinds) lately have been our best sellers.
They can be more labour- instense!  Our focus is to brighten the rack in each size selection and sell what we have left in stock made up.  Our yarn supply is getting very low and we want to take action to replenish that, and key in more on what sizes are selling, and what colours are selling.  You got it that will be a project for me, MsB to do in the New Year and make a tally of all our socks sold and see if there has been any patterns to what has sold and what has not sold.  But right off the top of my head I can tell you Yellow,  Red, Purple,and Orange sometimes, Pink, and all combos of those colours,  do not stick around long!  Blues, Greens, and Aquas seem to linger more on the rack.  That is my good observation so far!  As far as Men, I have to take a longer and harder look at our stats. But I am going to go out on limb though and say our browns,with other shades of colour such as burgandys, mulberrys, corals, and greens with them, went faster!

MsB from Socks Made On 88

Whoopsie-Daisy!

Sometimes when I come here, I feel like a reporter.  Especially now, that I just got finished watching the news.  I don't know how honest reporters are, but I am very honest so I had come here and say that the socks I posted the other day saying MrB made for MrB is true, but in fact some where between cranking, kitchenering, washing and drying, these did not come out to be a Men's size 10 so they will NOT be MrB's as they are measured to be a Men's size 9 instead!  That is a oops, but it is a also a learning curve as we they were made from some Canadian (Ontario) Yarn.  Now that I think of it the instructions say to wash in cold water and I washed them in hot water so that may explain that they have experienced some shrinkage. This particular blend is more wool content and less nylon content.  I am used to the German superwash and this yarn although very good does not meet the high standard of the German Yarn.  I am actually glad that I made this mistake because now I can stress to our customers, ones who want more warmth must follow the washing instructions to keep these particular socks from not shrinking.  It was a whoopsie-daisy that was a good thing! I have learned from my mistake.  Here is another picture of those socks.  Notice the fine stripe near the heel, that was actually a whoopsie-daisy too that proved to be a welcomed accent!  Someone is sure to enjoy this unique pair.
MsB from Socks Made On 88

Merry Christmas to MrB from MrB!

Merry Christmas to MrB from MrB!
In "Socks Made On 88" house you must see Socks under the tree!

MsB from Socks Made On 88 

Pull up your socks....

Pull up your socks folks, there is only a few more days till Christmas Eve and Christmas Day!  There are even fewer days till our last market of the year 2012 and also to celebrate one year with our owership of Brigadier 88 Dec 23/12.

MrB made a pair of socks at the showing Saturday for himself, and this evening he is back at it, cranking and knitting away to make a couple more pairs to hang on our sock rack for sale for Sat. Dec 22nd.  

So in the next few days I will have a few pictures to share of the completed socks before Christmas.  1, 2, 3, maybe even 4 pairs!

MsB from Socks Made On 88