Mad in March

Ok, I know you're dying for more information. I didn't have to dye the sock yarn this year. I had thought ahead last year after the search for Jayhawk colors proved to be so difficult. So, when I saw Blue and Red yarn already made, I snagged onto it. My own personal style for wearing socks would probably not be to have such contrast / dramatic stripping going on. It's a pretty "rugby stripe" colorway.
And, Yes, I admit, I probably overbought. More details on the yarn soon.

They're larger balls of yarn than I was expecting, and I prefer to do both at once, so I started each sock with it's own ball of yarn. That problem that I have with not quitting until I use up all the yarn.... Well, that may be problematic on these socks. I may end up with tights !

The Ram Club for Men's Socks

Help me eeeee! I don't remember exactly what lead up to it, but I think I signed up for a "Men's Sock Club"? The Sock Club for Men? hee hee heee. Well, I do have plenty of "Men" in my socalled life that I could knit for, right? Maybe it was the Ram thing. I'm heavily influenced by Aries.
It's at theuniquesheep.com. I vaguely remember finding it during March Madknits when I was looking for Jayhawk color yarn for Jaywalker Socks. Or maybe it was when I started searching for Sock Wars. Today, I had to go to PayPal to find out what the actual website was. When I got there, it is soo cool. But, they're not going to start shipping stuff until August. Whew! I've got to get through the Six_Sox and then there's going to be Sock Wars III in May. I'm soooo into this stuff. But, I have got to stop buying 4 or 5 new yarns for each One that I use up. All my stash hiding spots are overflowing. I started to use the Ravelry stash list a while back and really got to get back into it.
A few days ago, I came across a blog where a woman has listed how many Yards of Yarn she owns.
Is there anyone here that actually KNOWS how much yarn they have? Exactly, down to the Yard ?
Boggles the mind.

Jayhawk Jaywalkers are Finished

The finished Jayhawk Jaywalkers Socks ! Yeah

They fit really well. As they should since I frogged them back at least 3 times to get the fit right.
And the frogging went really well with the Basketball games. Knitting, frogging, screaming, knitting, screaming! Wow, those last couple of games were really tense.

And I love how the colors came out. I'm usually fanatical about the stripes matching on the socks, but I just could not stand to loose any of the yarn. Each sock used exactly One Ball of Regia. See earlier posts on how I over dyed it to get the Crimson and Blue just right. I'll be looking for Jayhawk colors far ahead of time this year. I will find the perfect yarn next time!
Rock Chalk, Jayhawk, Go KU! Another Championship!

Photos finally

The Jayhawk Jaywalk Socks
These were started with 10 stitches (5 on each side of the needle). The toes increase 1 on each side of the instep and 1 on each side of the sole for 2 of every 3 rows until there are 25 on each sole and instep (50 total). Then I started the Jaywalker pattern.
All was going great until I tried them on after turning the heel. I had knitted straight too far. So, when I tried them on, the foot was obviously too long. And the Gussets were getting too big by that time I had increased by 17 stitches on each side. They were frogged back to the red stripe. Heels turned, again. On the right foot, the blue now pretty much just starts in the heel, but the first time the blue was a whole stripe before the heel turned.
Anyway, they really fit. But, where the pattern stitch starts, there are some really lumpy parts. I hope they work out when they're finished and blocked.
Can't wait until the game starts!