This MKAL has ended.

Thanks everybody who participated in the KAL! The following text is not applicable anymore.

Join us for a mystery sock KAL this weekend. You and I can help fighting the corona virus. If we stay at home, if we don’t go out, if we limit social interaction we can limit the pandemic disease from spreading further. So, why not join us in knitting a completely new sock pattern, being social with a safe distance. If you have the means, please spend a little sum on charity for virus research in your country, but the KAL is (or rather was) free. The sock we will be knitting is called Freja. Freja is a very capable goddess in the Nordic mythology (Norse saga). Freja is the fighter, she can see into the future and she ensures a good crop if we sacrifice to her. The war we are fighting is the pandemic covid-19 disease. What we want to see in the future is that humanity will win this war. The sacrifice is the donation and the restricted social activities and the harvest will eventually be the vaccine that is so desperately needed at the moment.

About the sock: the features are a stretchy cast on, cuff-down, anatomic new heel with a twist (a method that also could be useful if you don’t love grafting toe stitches). It’s a sporty, quite plain sock knitted over 60sts with any fingering weight sock yarn. I’ll be using signatureneedlearts double pointed needles with stiletto tip (you really need the pointy tip for the first round) and Malabrigo sock yarn. Support is provided in my Ravelry group ”Knitritious”. Please join us!