06.27.08
Do you have Flat Feet?
Well, you should! (Sorry, couldn’t resist – I’m a sucker for bad puns!) I’ve been so busy getting our latest shipment of Flat Feet sock yarn photographed and up on the website, and I just finished. No small feat – we photograph every single Flat Feet yarn and list them individually. You told me you really don’t want to hear “let us choose one for you”. So we don’t do it that way. We take lots of photos so you can see exactly what you’re getting – and we’ll send you the very same yarn you see in the photo! Just don’t wait too long to check them out – our last shipment of Flat Feet sold out in just a day and a half!
Don’t know what Flat Feet is? (Flat Feet are? Are these things singular or plural??) It’s the newest innovation in sock knitting – the yarn comes in two connected “flats” or panels of stockinette stitch, hand-dyed in color combinations ranging from tame to wild! And here’s the cool part: you UNRAVEL it to knit! You know how you frog back or unravel your knitting when you need to go back a few rows? (Going back a few rows is something I am quite familiar with, unfortunately.) Well, this is similar, except the flat knitted piece you’re unravelling is actually your “ball” of yarn – you knit directly from it! And it folds flat in your knitting bag. Neat, huh?
Did you notice that the paragraph above is not showing up next to the Flat Feet photo? Can any of you who blog in Wordpress email me to tell me how to get the text to appear next to photos? I’m new to Wordpress, and I’m having some adjustment issues…
You’ve been asking for a sale – okay, here ya go! Take 25% off of Lily Chin Chelsea yarn – regularly $6.00, on sale for $4.50, now thru July 4th. Chelsea’s a great year-round yarn for warmer climates, and a super summer yarn for the rest of you. It’s a wool/cotton/acrylic blend in sport weight – great for socks, summer tops and cardigans, and baby items too.
And a contest too? I must be punchy from taking all those Flat Feet photos – okay, we’ll do a blog contest. Just post a comment about your favorite thing to knit (socks? baby items? fairisle sweaters?), and ask your friends to post too. Make sure your friends mention YOU in their posts. If at least 15 people comment by midnight on July 4th, I’ll give away two $15 store credits toward your next Great Yarn Company order – the first will go to the winner of a random drawing that includes everyone who commented, and the second will go to the person mentioned in the most comments! (Go on, bribe your friends – who’ll know??!)
Counting blog comments (and sheep – it’s LATE!),
Sue
Ronda T said,
June 28, 2008 at 9:21 am
Those flat feet are SO cool!
I must save my pennies to get some!!!
Ronda T said,
June 28, 2008 at 9:22 am
Oops, I forgot to say that my favorite thing in the whole world to knit is socks! I have about 8 pair going right now!
Eunice said,
June 28, 2008 at 9:43 am
Ronda sent me to your blog. I like knitting sweaters the best but am just now
getting into lace. The flat feet looks like fun.
Liz G. said,
June 28, 2008 at 9:51 am
I love to knit scarves and socks!
Ronda Trent (the4trents@verizon.net) directed me here!
Happy Counting!
Sherilyn said,
June 28, 2008 at 10:11 am
I love to knit socks and lace.
Ronda Trent (the4trents@verizon.net) directed me here as well!
Susie T said,
June 28, 2008 at 10:17 am
I love using sock yarn to make sweaters and tops.
Ronda Trent (the4trents@verizon.net) directed me here!
Kristina said,
June 28, 2008 at 11:17 am
I’m really into socks lately – but lace is quickly becoming a new addiction.
Rhonda Trent directed me here too! Man she is one popular woman!
texanapurls (patti) said,
June 28, 2008 at 12:01 pm
My favorite things to knit are socks and lace patterns . ronda trent sent me here again…I had discovered the flat feet yarn a couple days ago…can”t get enough sock yarn in da stash!
Manda said,
June 28, 2008 at 5:57 pm
I love love love to knit socks.
Flat Feet are great. I had the pleasure of knitting a pair of socks out of one of them, and they’re awesome!
Ronda Trent (the4trents@verizon.net) directed me here as well!
Hazel Blumberg said,
June 28, 2008 at 6:19 pm
I’ve read about Flat Feet, and I’ve seen maybe one photo in a magazine, but I’ve never seen all the photos that you have, Sue! Wow! This is wildly wild stuff! Maybe when I get more money, I can order some. (Have gone back to school–to become a massage therapist–and am living the starvin’ student life while in my mid-50s.)
The main thing, though, is that I’m thrilled you survived the whole Katrina thing and that you’ve moved on–literally and figuratively. I was worried about you! I’m thrilled you’ve landed in a knitter-friendly place. That’s great!
Glad to’ve found you again.
Warmly,
Hazel in Tallahassee, FL
Hazel Blumberg said,
June 28, 2008 at 6:25 pm
Oops! We were supposed to comment about favorite things to knit. Right now, I’m so busy with school–who knew that massage therapy school would be so intense re: anatomy, physiology, pathology, etc?–that I’m not knitting much. I keep an emergency knitting kit in my car, so that I can knit in traffic jams, at stoplights, while waiting for them to clear tree limbs outta the way (a frequent problem here), on breaks at school, etc. What I have in my emergency knit kit is a critter blanket. I knit them on size 13 needles with three skeins of yarn at once, using the typical dishcloth pattern (start with three stitches, increase one stitch every row, use only garter stitch, get the blanket big enough and then start decreasing one stitch per row), and when I get about a dozen, I ship or bring them to an animal shelter or animal rescue for them to put in cages with cats or dogs or rabbits or hamsters or gerbils or you name it. So, I guess critter blankets are my current favorite thing to knit.
Hazel in Tallahassee, FL
cathy said,
June 28, 2008 at 7:04 pm
Ronda (Trent), flat feet are super! I had to laugh the first time I read about them, though. You (or someone) knits a rectangle and THEN the knitter unravels the knitting to knit something else! Just like quilting, you cut up fabric to sew it again to make a quilt. Go figure…..knitters and quilters are THE BEST!
sandy said,
June 28, 2008 at 8:29 pm
i love to knit sweaters and hat and am learning to knit sox…i think flat feet is a really neat idea.
rhonda trent sent me.
Lissa Kadlec said,
June 28, 2008 at 9:59 pm
My favorite things to knit would be baby sweaters (for gifts) and baby hats (for the hospital) and socks! And felted bags! And shawls…and well, just about anything! I take a knitting project with me EVERYWHERE I go…you just never know when you might have a chance to knit!
I love the idea of the Flat Feet yarn – very unique and very cool!!! It looks like it would be incredibly fun to come up with different color combos too!
Lissa Kadlec – who was sent to your blog by:
Ronda Trent (the4trents@verizon.net)
Heidi said,
June 29, 2008 at 8:16 am
My favorite thing to knit is socks. I almost always have one on the needles!
Heidi said,
June 29, 2008 at 8:16 am
Woops forgot to say that Ronda Trent sent me also!
peyla victoria said,
June 29, 2008 at 3:28 pm
Thank you for telling me how to enter the contest. rhonda t sais to mention her and tell what I like to knit. socks and afgahans. wish i was rich i would buy every color you have. thanks. peyla
Gina said,
June 30, 2008 at 8:45 am
Ronda Trent has flat feet???? I would have never guessed…..LOL…
BTW I knit all types of things, whatever strikes my fancy.
Sue H. said,
June 30, 2008 at 3:28 pm
Ronda T. sent me here. My favorite thing to knit is socks.
Darcy Watts said,
July 1, 2008 at 2:56 am
I am into scarves and shawls right now:) I have blogged about your contest and linked to it:)Darcy
Darcy Watts said,
July 1, 2008 at 2:56 am
Ronda sent me
mrsbeanie58onRavelry said,
July 1, 2008 at 4:10 am
I love knitting sweaters. Ronda sent me!
Colleen said,
July 1, 2008 at 7:37 am
Right now I have been into knitting socks but love baby things, scarves, cardigans….
I found the contest from Darcy’s Knotty Knitter.
kathy b said,
July 1, 2008 at 8:17 am
I came to you from Darcy’s Knotty Knitter too!
I love knitting in the round. Hats, raglans, purses, socks.
beth said,
July 1, 2008 at 8:58 am
I love to knit socks and dishcloths. Ronda Trent told me about the “flat feet”.
turtle said,
July 1, 2008 at 9:58 am
i love to knit socks, got 4 pais going right now with all the other things as well! i linked through darcys knotty knitter.
grace said,
July 1, 2008 at 12:06 pm
I love to knit shawls, shawls and more shawls, I have 3 on the needles right now, Darcy sent me and Will post on my blog right now!!!!
Susan aka Flowox said,
July 1, 2008 at 12:31 pm
Darcy-Knotty Knitter sent me over here from her blog.
I like knitting just about everything. I like socks, baby stuff, blankets, sweaters, accessories………..just really whatever tickles my fancy at the time of cast on and what yarns I may find to play with. fun contest
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Kath said,
July 1, 2008 at 2:36 pm
I was also sent here by Darcy Knotty Knitter’s blog!
My current fave is socks – for practicality and portability. But before that my first love was hats!
Kitten with a Whiplash said,
July 1, 2008 at 4:21 pm
My favorite is sweaters, but I’ve been branching out lately to use up yarn that I don’t have enough of to make a sweater. In fact I have three unfinished sweaters just languishing whilst I digress. I’ve posted about the contest on my blog, I’m hear because Darcy Knotty Knitter shared the news on her blog.
Aunt Kathy said,
July 1, 2008 at 7:02 pm
I LOVE knitting socks, I am a new sock knitter but I am loving it. That flat yarn sounds awesome and I MUST have some.
I heard about your contest from Turtle and I have added you to my blog as well.
I hope you get all the comments you are hoping for. Now to go check out that yarn. I may have to get some to use as a prize on my blog contest that is running through July and August.
Elaine said,
July 1, 2008 at 10:20 pm
My favorite thing to knit is sweaters, but lately I’ve been making them using sock yarn.
Darcy sent me.
Rachel O said,
July 1, 2008 at 10:42 pm
I’m also a sweater knitter, primarily but socks are fun too.
Elaine sent me
Marie said,
July 2, 2008 at 5:58 am
Such a clever idea–it will be interesting to see how the dyed colors work into a pattern when knitted.
Ronda Trent directed me here.
Marie
Jersey Jessie said,
July 2, 2008 at 6:00 am
I knit just about anything and have been doing it all my life. Favorite – probably anything with lots of colors.
Elaine sent me here
bean said,
July 2, 2008 at 10:24 am
I love knitting baby things. Dresses, pants,sweaters all baby. I have 4 kids and two sisters pregnant, so I am not lacking babys to knit for.
blogless in nj said,
July 2, 2008 at 12:10 pm
I go through phases. I went through my sock knitting phase because everyone else was and I must say I’d love to try flatfeet, but my favorite is anything with interesting engineering (I’m an engineer, afterall). So, for example, Hanne Falkenburg-like sweaters are just about my favorite.
I work with Elaine who sent me.
Kimberly Storey said,
July 2, 2008 at 4:46 pm
those blanks are awesome!
I am addicted to knitting socks, and would love to try them!
Darcy mentioned you were running this contest, thanks Darcy, thanks to you too for hosting it!
Kimberly
CastratedBean <on raverly.
purple said,
July 3, 2008 at 8:54 am
I knit lots of socks or at least try to.
Elaine sent me
susan said,
July 3, 2008 at 11:05 am
I’m a lover of knitting socks. Just started my first flat feet. Can’t wait to see the outcome.
ladybuglola said,
July 4, 2008 at 10:41 am
darcy knottyknitter sent me…. i like to knit it all……. i am blogless
Cheryl said,
July 4, 2008 at 10:51 am
I have flat feet. I modify the heels of the I knit for myself because I do. Darcy knottyknitter sent me.
Mary said,
July 4, 2008 at 11:10 am
Oh how neat, never had heard of it but I’m a new knitter and well I only have done dishcloths so far. I’m getting ready to try socks so we’ll see how that goes.
By the way, Darcy KnottyKnitter sent me.
Tom Watts said,
July 4, 2008 at 12:42 pm
I like to knit dishclothes Iam blogless but Iam on ravelry as knakedknitter.
Darcy’s Knotty Knitter sent me.
Victoria said,
July 4, 2008 at 12:51 pm
i have two favoritethings to knit beanies and warshcloths and yes i actually have a flat feet at my house right now im using it to make a wrap i saw on knitty.com its going to be purtyful
Tammy said,
July 4, 2008 at 1:05 pm
Hi – I was sent here by Darcy’s Knotty Knitter. My favorite thing to knit varies with my moods… socks, sweaters, shawls. Sometimes I want stockinette, sometimes lace, just so long as I’m knitting!
Crystal said,
July 4, 2008 at 1:50 pm
Oh how cool! I don’t knit but I do love to crochet but wanted to check it out!
Found you through Darcy KnottyKnitter. Thanks!
Dawn said,
July 4, 2008 at 2:12 pm
Darcy, KnottyKnitter sent me over!:) I love to knit socks, shawls, dishcloths…as long as I’m knitting I’m a happy camper!
Trish said,
July 4, 2008 at 2:42 pm
My favorite thing to knit is socks and stuff for my two kiddos.
I was sent here by Darcy’s Knotty Knitter.
Jackie B said,
July 4, 2008 at 8:52 pm
I love to knit dishcloths and stuff for my grandchildren.
Darcy, KnottyKnitter sent me over!…….