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A Summer Shorty Sock Club

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feel good yarn handdyedSilverSpun yarn is so much fun to work with. I used it over the winter in a pair of gloves, which takes advantage of the conductive power of silver (you can still interact with phones and other screens with them on).

But silver yarn is also said to have antibacterial properties, which makes it perfect for using in a pair of summer socks.

Knitting Sarah is hosting a summer sock knitalong with Feel Good Yarn’s summer sock club yarns. The club gets you three shipments of yarn hand dyed by Backyard Fiberworks, and people who take part in the knitalong on Sarah’s Ravelry page and successfully complete a pair of short socks during the summer will be eligible for prizes. (You don’t have to use this yarn or any particular pattern, by the way, it just adds to the fun.)

If you’re interested in joining the sock club, it’s open through Thursday (May 14). The knitalong will start on June 1 and run through the end of August.

I’ve knit one pair of really short socks (as in, they have no leg at all) and there’s a pretty short pair in my latest book. Do you ever knit short socks?

[Photo via Feel Good Yarn Co.]

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  4. Angel – you can join the KAL by going to the Friends of Knitting Sarah group on Ravelry. She has all of the particulars there for the Summer Sock KAL.

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Knit a Hat with a Flock of Chickens

It’s well known (among knitters, anyway) that knitters seem to love chickens as a motif and a subject of our knitting projects. The Emotional Support Chicken and all the other chicken knitting patterns are just the beginning of our devotion to farmyard friends. 

For example, there’s Farmer Dennis’ Chicken Hat. This free pattern from Stacy Black is a simple worsted weight beanie sized for adults and decorate with a couple of little rounds of colorwork fences and a flock of chickens strutting around the body of the hat. 

You don’t need a lot of any of the colors for the chickens, their facial features or the fences, so this is a great project for using little leftover bits from other projects. The main color for the body of the hat is less than a skein using the yarn suggested, so you might just have everything you need in your house to start stitching up this hat right away. 

The colorwork is presented as a chart, with a 16 stitch section that repeats around the body of the hat. All the color changes are shown on the chart but I think it would be easier to knit the whole chicken in the chicken color and add the eye, beak and other features using duplicate stitch when the knitting is done. That way you don’t have to carry those yarns around the whole hat for just a few stitches. 

As the name suggests, the original hat was given to a farmer who shared their eggs, but anyone who raises chickens or just has a thing for the fowl is sure to love this cute hat. It wouldn’t be too difficult for someone new to stranded knitting or reading charts to make, either, so if that’s you, give it a try. 

The pattern is available for free on Ravelry. 

[Photo: Stacy Black]

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