I have been wanting to try STR for so long, but have not gotten around to purchasing any. I am now doing the Knit from your Stash 2007 (and have included sock yarn on my list of do not buy for 9 monthes) so the only way I can try STR is if you give me a skein! Please!!

I need this yarn because the heat is out in my workplace and my feet are freeeezing. I'll knit fast!

Why haven't I tried STR? Because I am so afraid I will fall in love with it. Then what will I do? I started knitting less than a year ago and there are already so many yarns that I love and projects I want to try. I am downright scared to fall in love with something else.

(with a demure look) me. I'm waiting until I get married. Wait. I *am* married. I must be ready.

I've never knitted with STR before - in fact I didn't even know it existed until some time last year when I started looking around on Teh Knitblog Intarwebs. I would love to knit with it because I feel like I'm missing out on something special, but it's hard to locate STR on the ground in Canada.

And a propos of nothing, I very much enjoy reading your blog and your sock encouragement in particular. And your Ariann posts have, I think, pushed me over the edge into putting that sweater on my 2007 to-do list!

I need this yarn because if I start my next pair of socks from yarn already in my sock bin it will create a disturbance in the biomagnetic balance of the bin. I need this yarn because every time I think of buying some, I think I don't really need it. And when I went yesterday to buy some and support Blue Moon, their site was down. Pick me, pick me! And hey, when I went to my library website to see if I could check out Half Magic, all copies were out and some on old. Kids today are reading good books.

Let's see. 1)I live overseas and I don't know if I can get it here. 2)I'd like to make some socks for myself once I've finished everyone else's and most people seem to like STR 3)Even if I could order it from the States A)Money's too tight and even if it wasn't B)I don't have a credit card.
Happy Belated Birthday!

Because it is my birthday on the 15th and what could be better than STR yarn as a present!! The January girls need socks...

This is an entry for my friend Denise. She has only knit 2 pairs of socks in her whole life. If you pick me, I will give the yarn to her and some other little something to go with the yarn. She's in her 50s so she's a 50 something STR virgin.

Why do I need STR yarn?
I live in FLOYDS KNOBS, Indiana. Yes, that's right - Floyds Knobs. I have to drive 30 minutes just to get friggin' MILK, never mind being able to get to a yarn shop and fondle the fiber! I grew up on the south side of Chicago - whoda thunk I'd wind up here?
Besides, after 2 marriages and 3 kids - I kinda like being thought of as a virgin again!
Thanks for making my day!

I'm 51 years old, short, and have never experienced STR!! I'm still paying for DD's grad school and have a 24 year old son living at home. I need more joy in my life. Please pick me!

If this is a random drawing, there's not much I can say to convince you, but I'd love to try STR for the first time. I'm getting ready to join Sockapalooza 4 (my first Sockapalooza, too) and if I'm going to knit some fabulous socks for someone else, I'll need some inspiration by making some for me! :)

After hearing such wonderful things about STR, I went to their website and found it CLOSED! Before that, STR can also be known as Yarn Expense Above Budget (YEAB, so I resisted. Also, I am a rare knitter who doesn't like to increase my stash without first finishing another project!

I live in India (ouch, the postage!) and have never knit socks (with any yarn, haven't finished any, that is). I have only ever seen Patons Kroy sock yarn. Does that qualify me?
Also I've always wondered why people looking to swap always ask for sock yarn in exchange...

I have only knit socks with my handspun or Lorna's Laces--I *heart* Lorna's Laces. I am a true blue companion to what I know. I've been with my sweetie for 13 years--my only boyfriend and now husband. I would love to branch out to other loves, and Socks that Rock fit my love of color. But fear of betraying my sock yarn companion has me not ordering STR. I hope I win, so I have a good excuse to knit a nice pair of socks with STR. I can't let a good free yarn go to waste, now can I?

Pick me! I'm old. Time is running out.

I need this yarn because 1) I live in a place where the only place to buy yarn is AC Moore, JoAnns, Michaels, and Walmart. So I haven't actually seen this yarn, and didn't know it existed till I read blogs like yours. And 2) I am ready to try a pattern other than basic ribbed socks and I would love to have some really cool yarn to knit them with, and 3) I can never make up my mind which colorway to buy, so I can just trust you to send me something great!

It's a sad sad day that I admit I have never even finished my first pair of socks, much less knit with STR. It's not that I dislike knitting them other things just call my name. Maybe STR would change that.

I was entranced by the idea of the STR club and did pre-registration. However, I've only ever seen a skein and haven't acutally had the priviledge of working with it. The club would eat up my yarn budget (a laughable concept I know, but a sad reality nonetheless). I'm having commitment issues about registering, but I'm sure working with a skein would make me a lifelong convert.

I have never tried Socks That Rock. In fact, I'm not sure I've ever even seen a real live skein of them. Oh, I've heard rumours and tales of them, but I don't think they exist. Prove me wrong!

I need the STR yarn because I've been knitting for less than a year. I've only completed two pairs of socks. One out of Cascade Fixation and the other lion brand magic stripes.

Plus, I've been sick at home all week with a nasty virus and have been too sick to knit even. It would be a very nice "get well and have great socks" present.

ooh! ooh! me, please! i once tried to scour the internet to see all the available shades of STR before making a purchase, but all that googling nearly made my head explode. i recently had to move from boston to virginia, so now my chance of ever find it in a real-live store is exactly zero :(

This morning, I got up early to finish my first (!) pair of socks (rather than working out with my boyfriend... oops). I just started knitting in November, and so I'm a virgin for most things knitting wise!! Therefore, I need STR. :)

I'm a newbie sock knitter. Still trying to finish/start my first pair out of Koigu. I've heard so many great things about STR, but by the time I got to the Loop store at Rhinebeck they were already sold out. I'd love to try it!

I think I will love being a sock knitter. I don't really have a choice because I love buying sock yarn. :)

I received a skein as a Christmas present, but I've yet to use it because I have other things that I want to use first. I'm guessing that doesn't count, yes? Oh well.

My name is FemiKnit Mafia, and I am a Socks that Rock virgin. [hello, Mafia] In fact, the only high quality sock yarn that I've ever purchased for myself is Koigu, and I flinched at the cost. See ... I have a small child, a small yarn budget and a new-to-me fixer-upper house. The daycare center and Home Depot get all of my money. But I love the colorways on the Blue Moon website and would love to try it.
[Fingers tightly crossed for the random draw]

I am another person who lives in the middle of nowhere. I live 90 miles from an LYS, and as I have visited several LYSs in my travels, I have never even seen a hank of STR. The photos on your blog are sooo... enticing. In addition to being an STR virgin, I am a sock virgin. I have yet to knit a sock. If I'm going to start knitting socks, I might as well start with the best sock yarn! Thanks for this opportunity!

I knit my first pair of socks last fall. I'd love some STR to make my second pair! Perhaps jaywalkers? And, no one sells STR up here in the wilds of NH. :-)

I don't know if I can best the Floyd's Knobs lady. I have made one pair of socks, and it was for my father for Christmas. It wasn't very enjoyable, as I knit it with Cascade something or other in a solid (but lovely) chocolate color. It was very very boring. Emphasis on the very. And the boring. I'm worried, though, that like every loss of virginity experience, I'll fall into a love that won't be reciprocated. I'll turn into some sort of sad, clingy girl, and look for the bittersweet tang of First Love with the entire STR line! Here's how it'll go down:
"STR, you never call me!" "But after we met you bought eighteen of my brothers!" "But but but... you were my first! The most special! Doesn't that MEAN anything to you?" "I thought it meant something to you! But all you do is walk all over me!" "Well, you're *socks*. I thought that's what you wanted!" "How would you know what I want? You just stuck needles into me, twisted me around, and you wouldn't even do Magic Loop!" "Magic Loop! I'm not that kind of girl!" And that's when I'd throw that pair of socks in for a wash, because only dirty socks would suggest such a thing.

I've taken this way too far.

I've not tried STR for the simple reason that I am still finanically putting myself together after my divorce. As such, if I'm splurging on yarn, I tend to buy locally to avoid such things as shipping costs. (Every penny counts.)

I NEED this yarn because you've put the idea in my head. I'd love to knit my next pair of socks in something new, something people are raving about, something not cotton (for my mom, almost done, can't wait). Whenever you post about STR I click on over to the website to look at all the color choices, then pretty much sigh as I close the window. Someday, but looking at the checkbook, not today.

Thanks for this opportunity.

Generosity, thy name is Cara. You do-gooder you.

I have poor knitting self esteem. While I've been knitting for 4 years I constantly doubt my abilities. Maybe some STR will puff up my knitting self esteem and I will become the superstar knitter that I know is living inside.

Here's why I need some STR: I am a lawyer--a female lawyer in the South, no less--which means I must wear pretty boring things pretty much every day of the week. A pair of socks knit in STR will make me feel free and alive again! :-)

Also, my best friend is a January One baby, which means that you and I are, like, practically twins, right?

I have been reading your blog for ages. I have watched the rabid STR love that possesses you. I watched while you knit Jaywalkers again and again and your fabulous Log Cabin quilts. Frankly I haven't tried STR because I am scared. Let's face it, we're all scared a little the first time. There is so much excitement and all your friends are doing it. Will it be a good as I have heard? Will I be satisfied? Will I get a disease? Oh, wait. Yarn. We're talking about yarn. Yes. It's about time I am a STR virgin no more.

I've kept myself chaste and pure, despite some early flirtation (MDS&W, when I got there, the table was empty) and some heavy petting. Well not really petting, since it's been through the internet, but well, STR and I have, what my friends call " a long-distance relationship". We chat online and have become...intimate online, as I gaze into its colorfull depths, it taunts me with it's distance. I whisper what I'd like to do to it and it promises things it cannot fulfill.
I'm not just chaste with the STR; in fact, I've been with very few sock yarns and only have enough stash to knit 3 pair of socks! My finances force this chastity; I can't afford to become pregnant with lust and start binging on yarns.
So I knit with my Cascade 220, chastity belt firmly placed around the wallet.
*sob*

I need this because DD just got into her first choice of college. And the line was too long at Rhinebeck. And the whole "I might fall in love" issue...

Because I've only tried Regia, Opal, Lorna's Laces and once Koigu and reading your blog for a while now makes me think STR must be the greatest of all sock yarns in the entire world. If this is indeed true, convince me with your skein and I swear I'll get back to blue moon and order a whole bunch! cheers!

I have been lusting after STR ever since I started knitting socks over a year and a half ago. I have never even touch it - so I am a true virgin. I had the yarn listed on my Christmas list, but my hubby just doesn't understand. Needless to say, I didn't get the yarn. I did receive a ball winder, so I am all set to wind that skein of STR and knit up a beautiful pair of socks!

I ran out of sock knitting mojo long before STR came into existence. My friends all rave about it, run to the booth to buy it when we hit the fiber fest. I just had no reason to try it. But I am sure I could make a lovely scarf with it. Or be tempted to try socks again.

HaHaHaHa!! LOL! I am NOT a STR virgin, and I am NOT entering the contest, but just wanted to say that Kathy H's entry has me cracking up!

Thanks for making my morning!

A STR Lover

I do have sock yarn. But no Socks that Rock. Astonishingly enough, no one in Texas carries any and I have always hesitated to buy sock yarn off the internet. I always want to see the colors first. When I finally gave up on this whole not buying it off the internet, I went to the website, got a couple of skeins picked out and poof! Their shopping cart is disabled for web stuff. At the same time, I don't understand what the fascination with it is. Yo no se. :)

I need the STR because not only am I an STR virgin, I'm a sock knitting virgin as well. It would be amazing if I could use the best yarn on my first pair of socks!

Like many young women, I had little self-esteem and no taste when I began hooking up with bad yarn sheerly for socks. I thought the blown-out heels, knot-filled skeins, and sandpaper caresses of substandard yarn were all that socks would give me. I didn't have the guts to toss the crap fiber to the curb and tell it never to come knocking on my stash again. Go without socks? Are you kidding me?

With age, however, comes wisdom, and now I know I'm worth more than plastic yarn. I now have the self-confidence to start a long-term relationship with something better--all I lack is the introduction to a good yarn.

After so much blind fumbling with any fiber that came down the pike, I deserve socks that will rock me.

I really want to try STR, but as a poor student I can't afford ordering expensive yarn from abroad... Maybe you can get me hooked, so I'll know what to use my first paycheck on? *giggle*

Hi-
I have never used Blue Moon's yarn. Not for lack of desire but I am in Canada and at present can't really justify ordering sock yarn in american dollars. I would like to be entered in your contest! However I think I am going to start saving up my pennies to place an order. In all the controversy I took another look at their website and fell in love with henpecked! Even dreamed about it last night.
Have a great day

I'm a brand-new mom, finishing a PhD. Clearly, I am certifiable and some STR would be nice knitting in the padded cell (never mind knitting needles probably aren't allowed. I'm delusional, too.).

Hi-
I have never used Blue Moon's yarn. Not for lack of desire but I am in Canada and at present can't really justify ordering sock yarn in american dollars. I would like to be entered in your contest! However I think I am going to start saving up my pennies to place an order. In all the controversy I took another look at their website and fell in love with henpecked! Even dreamt about it last night.
Have a great day

Pick me! Normally, I lurk, but I really enjoy your blog, and the chance to knit with STR would make my day. My LYS doesn't sell much in the higher end sock yarn - they have nice yarn, but not REALLY NICE yarn. Thanks!

I get sooooooooo jealous everytime I see the rapturous comments about STR ... no one stocks it here in Australia. It's just not fair [ stamps foot ]
I NEED to know how good this stuff is.

Until this year I'd never seen STR "in the flesh". That changed when I received a swap box which contained a skein of STR. Needless to say I did a happy dance. I'm currently knitting it up and it's wonderful to work with, and hopefully there's more STR in my future.

I have never used STR before but it is on my list of yarn to try. The reason I need this yarn is that you are picking a winner on the 14th and my birthday is on the 15th so it would be the perfect present for one Capricorn to send to another!!

I've never knit with STR, and I'm unable to order it in the near future because I had not one, but TWO computers break while I was trying to use them this week. :( Socks that Rock wouldn't fix my computer, but they might make me feel better about not having one.

Oh Cara!! I have been vicariously living through you when it comes to STR!! I must say I am a virgin when it comes to this gorgeous yarn (I think this is the only time it's a shame to be a virgin!) Almost everyday I go to the Blue Moon site to drool over the colors, but I've been afraid to take the plunge in buying a skein! My LYS (the only one within a few hours) carries only a few boring skeins of sock yarn, so this would be a great opportunity to fall in love with a new yarn, make so beautiful socks, share them with the other knitter ladies and make them fall in love as well!

I've never knit with STR due to the fear that my drool over it's yummy goodness would dampen the skein. Plus the owner of my LYS has (gasp!) never heard of it. So just think, if I am randomly picked I could help initiate other STR newbs.

Hi! Until the past 6 months, I had never heard of STR. I've been knitting for over 20 years but on a solitary basis. There are very few LYSs in my area and with 3 young kids, I don't have time for a S and B evening. But, with the advent of the internet and my recent discovery of all the wonderful knitting blogs out there, I have seen so many beautiful socks made with STR yarn. I last made a pair of socks about 15 years ago and I'm anxious to try again with something other than the boring colours of years past!

There once was a virgin demure,

Whose knitting was chaste, plain, and pure.

'Til her stitching, so mild,

Was made funky and wild.

Socks That Rock were the cure, that's for sure!

(Please pick my crappy limerick--"A" for effort?).

I never win anything. I don't even know why I am entering except to say that I can't afford *the good stuff* yarn. We only have Michael's and Hobby Lobby here in my part of Louisiana. Even then, some of their stuff is too expensive for our meager budget. I have completed two pairs of socks - one from Lion Brand Magic Stripes that I gave to my husband and one in Bernat Sox that I will save for my daughter to wear when she grows into her feet. I would LOVE to try STR (even contemplated signing up for the Sock Club - to stick it to the man - before I saw the price tag). I know I won't win...I'll stick to the cheap stuff. Happy hunting!!

I've never used STR but that still doesn't stop me from having heartburn over what is having heartburn over what happened to Blue Moon. My father was 9 in 1929 and raised me in the code that banks were run by funny (strange minded) men and a person should never trust a bank. He died with that code. GO BLUE MOON!

I've never knit with STR because I've been afraid that if I buy one skein I'll want to buy lots more!! And since the bank account is a little small right now, I've settled for drooling over pictures of STR.

I need it because I can't buy my own. Well, I could, but I have been going to that site at least once a week for close to a year now, and I just agonize over all the beautiful colors. Since I can't afford to buy them all, I haven't been able to choose just one. I need you to choose one for me.

Why I need Socks That Rock.
I need Socks that Rock because although I have been knitting for about 40 years, I have made very few socks. If I win some Socks that Rock, I promise to knit them promptly and show them off to everyone I know. I'll also promise I will clean behind the refrigerator if that would up my chances.
Thank you for your consideration.
Sincerely,
Wendelene

I've never used STR because...I haven't knitted my first pair of socks yet! I just learned to knit last summer (not that I have no fiber history I used to spin my own yarn for fiber arts but then life and kids and scrapbooking got in the way.) Anyway I am taking a sock class in early February and can't wait so please take pity on me. I did pre-register for the Rockin' Sock Club but what if I hate making socks?? What if I am not ready for socks? What if I am doomed to make scarves, hats and mittens for the rest of my life? Will STR help me over these fears?

I don't live in the US so STR is difficult to get hold of. Also it is very hard to choose colourways, they are all so yummy!

Because (as Eliza Doolittle once said) "I'm a good girl, I am!"

Okay, I'm cheating. I'm not a true STR virgin--but hear me out! In the spring of 2006 I knit a pair of socks using STR that I bought at Rhinebeck in 2005. I finished them in July and promptly packed them up for a trip to the Adirondacks. When I got there I could only find one sock. One. And the other one has never reappeared. It was heartbreaking, I tell you. Every time I open my sock drawer I see that one perfect Fir Tree sock and the trauma is terrible. ;) Maybe some new STR would help me to heal?

damn, i lost my v-card long ago... sigh. not to mention i'm using it Right Now! HEE HEE.

I'd love to work with STR. I am a full-time student, working 2 jobs so I can as I go pay for what scholarships don't cover. My fiance helps out with most of our costs of living, but our budget is stretched pretty thin. Not much room for yarn! I've been knitting for three years and knitting socks for one - a pair of STR socks for myself would be an amazing treasure. :)

because i have a really bad sock knitting mojo. all socks i have knitted have either been too loose, too big, or too small, or too itchy. it's a goldilocks situation here.

however, i believe in the power of socks that rock. i believe that they will make an absolute perfect pair of socks, no matter what. i mean this is sock yarn that is practically blessed by knitters everywhere, so i don't think it can go wrong with all this karma. :)

You know what, Cara? I was going to be clever, wise, tres needy and otherwise throw myself on the generosity of your goodness, just to get some of your STR yarn. I read all the 63 comments up there. Just forget about it. My yarn diet, my KFYS year is going along nicely. I can live without it, as I have for all these years. Really, I can. Some one of those other poor souls can have it. Really. I won't mind at all. Really. Let the other Gretchen have it (I got your back, Gretch!). I'm sure it will go to a loving, nurturing home. Don't give me another thought...

I tried to get STR at MDSW, but always arrived at the booth too late. And every time I'm shopping online, it's either gifts for others or the shop where I'm purchasing what I "need" doesn't carry it. Not sure I should be writing, especially since actually winning a skein might mean STR becomes a "need".

I have never knit with Socks That Rock. Why? Because I have never been able to get my hands on a skein, and I've been trying to limit my yarn splurging. However, if I do not win this little contest (which is unlikely because I never win anything) than I must place a substantial order with this great company to spread the love and support a fabulous women run small business.

technically i have yet to knit with STR even though i have plenty of it. it's so beautiful that i don't want to "ruin" it by actually knitting with it.

i know how stupid that sounds by the way. it's ok to mock.

My LYS doesn't carry Socks that Rocks, and they few sock yarns they do carry just don't motivate me. I haven't 'popped my cherry' by ordering any from online venders yet, because I want to see it and feel it in person. The sock yarns I have come across just don't motivate me to knit socks. The last time I knit socks, the yarn had sat in my stash for over a year because the yarn just didn't sing to me.

I am addicted to sock knitting. I am knitting socks for my ALL of my friends who are 30 this year. That is a lot of socks. I have tried most sock yarns that I lust after on blogs every day, but koigu and STR are on my list of "never tried but must". I can get Koigu here in the UK, but not STR. I enter every SP or sock swap with the hope of getting some, but it hasn't materialised. :0( I am rockless. Help!

I've never knit with STR but I've wanted to for quite some time. I'm a lurker on your lovely blog, but I always enjoy the entries and the gorgeous pictures that accompany at the top.

I'm an STR virgin. There, I said it.

I have been knitting for about 4 years, but I have not (gasp) made any socks yet. Sweater, hats, wraps, scarves, mittens, purses, etc. but, sadly, no socks. It is on my list of things to learn this year! And, STR isn't available around here, so I've never seen, felt or smelled it in person. Pick me!

OH I need socks that rock because I gave up buying it for a friend! I was at Rhinebeck, and ran past the line at the booth to see my good friend who I had never met in person.. After looking at the line and seeing how long it was.. I decided it was more important to spend time with my friend than to wait in line to buy it.. Though it was tempting..
And she didn't get any either.. so I sorta owe her a skein too.. heheh

I have just begun to knit socks and love it...which is a surprise to me. I couldn't understand what the "BIG FUSS" was about knitting something so small and so "expensive".

Well I've been bitten by the bug. I enjoy the "calmness" of making all those tiny stitches.

You sparked my interest in STR after I saw your Log Cabin...but unfortunately, I know I won't be able to make one out of STR...too expensive. But...I would like to taste "the good life" by making socks!

Hmmm. . . I'll go with the "it's my birthday on Jan 16" excuse and the "I'm remodeling my house and have no extra money" excuse.

Because after 9 months off to work 40 hours a week for FREE doing clinical rotations, my last semester of pharmacy school ever is about to start. I took up knitting 4 years ago to help me get through this stressful program without killing someone, and some gorgeous STR will make the last couple months much more pleasant. Plus it might make me more likely to study for the boards.

I need Socks That Rock because I'm a math teacher. Huh? You say? Well, knitting socks is a great way to teach a math lesson....all that counting, figuring out how many stitches per inch to fit the circumference of your foot. And well...7th graders would not be impressed with Lorna's Laces or Koigu, lovely as they are, but a yarn named Socks That Rock? They'd listen. I need this yarn! (And those that don't listen might still be mesmerized by the swirly label)

I need this yarn because I am the world's WORST do-it-yourself dyer. I ruined eight skeins of yarn last night, trying to dye something fun. No saturation. No depth. No interest. And oh--it makes the yarn smell funny. Obviously I'm dyeing-impaired and need be just *given* pretty yarn. Right?

I have had such a crush on STR for a while now, but I guess I have self esteem issues. Why would such a lovely yarn want to go out with me?? I keep thinking that whan I finish the next pair of socks THEN I will be ready to ask STR out on a date...but so far I haven't gotten up the nerve to move past the drooling from a distance stage.

I haven't knit with STR, before. I'm almost afraid to try it, you know. Yarn buying can somehow be a sickness for me.

I, too, signed up for the Club - it was almost on a whim and now that they're going to be refunding the money and I'd have to purchase again - I probably won't because money issues are a real concern for us at the moment. Not to desperately plead, or anything, but my husband was desperately sick last year and we came close to losing him. Even now he's not back to "real" work and is gearing up an attempt to make it buying and selling on ebay. Although I haven't "officially" committed to knitting from my stash this year, it's looking more and more like that's what I'm going to have to do - more out of need than anything.

Umm, let's see - oh, and my 12 year old fell down at school yesterday and skinned both knees so bad she can barely walk. And my 9 year old has four loose teeth.

Can I BE any more pathetic? I could beg, you know. I'm not ashamed.

I have just knitted my first pair of socks and I am HOOKED! I want to knit another 100 pairs!!!! I would love to try this yarn as so many people rave about it..
Thanks
Kathie

I have been wanting to try some for ages! But, I have two small boys, 2 1/2 & 4, and they keep growing! So I have to keep buying shoes and clothes for them, instead of STR! I have been working from the stash lately, not for 2007 knit from your stash. Just because my kids always come first! And my God, my Boys eat a lot! Since we are always on a tight budget so I can be a stay at home Mom, STR is just a dream to me! I was planning to purchase some in April. If it comes from you, I would be so grateful to let you "pop my cherry"! It's been awhile since anyone has claimed I was a virgin! Ha!ha!

I have never knit with STR. I'm a graduate student and I usually ask for yarn for presents and try to buy budget yarns otherwise. I love knitting socks and would love to knit with STR>

I have coveted STR from afar...read posts about yarn festivals and blog posts with awesome socks. I live in Delaware....and no stores around here sell it. I have thought about buying some online...but thought I should knit thru my stash first....So I finally worked up the nerve and joined the sock club for 2007....only to have my money refunded!
EVERYTHING you have made with it is gorgeous! I love mail! Send me some!

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I was all set to sign up for the STR Sock Club...until my car broke down on Christmas Day in the Rocky Mountains. After paying to have it towed and repaired ($700), I couldn't afford any STR :-( You could be my belated Santa Claus!

I have never tried Socks that Rock and would love to. I got an honorable mention in your haiku contest (my daughter was born on January 1st and won't wear wool), so this could be a belated prize for my poetic skills!

Two reasons why I haven't tried STR yet 1) it is difficut to get stuff shipped here - a lot of people don't know where we are. 2) Everytime I am on the blue moon website I can never make up my mind which one to buy!

Oh....pretty please with a cherry on top! I have become a sockaholic and practically threw my elbows out knitting socks as Christmas gifts ( I have the heel flaps under my eyes to prove it) AND...I promise that sending some rockin' STR my way would not constitute feeding the addiction...I already admitted I have a problem -and isn't that the first step?

does being a total sock virgin count? would making my first pair of socks with STR be an amazing experience?

I'm an STR virgin! I haven't used it because there is no way I could justify spending that much money on sock yarn. I'm currently unemployed and just too poor. I've also never used Koigu, Lorna's Laces, or most other luxury sock yarns. Heck, I've never even seen them in person. I'm ready to quit knitting because I just can't afford it any more.

I've knitted 3 pairs of socks - 2 for my son (3 yo) and 1 for my daughter (7 yo). I've always wanted to splurge on a sock yarn for me. My LYS does not carry STR. The colors look gorgeous - I'd love to try it firsthand before buying sight unseen.

A Sockish Haiku
(Haunting dreams of socks,
Unrealized, unfulfilled.
Inspiration sought.)

I yearn, long, CRAVE to knit socks! Socks are my Everest! They call my name like devilish sirens, flaunting their woolen tresses with wild abandon! But I have yet to begin my expedition into Sockingdom. I am stranded at the threshold, hampered by a lack of inspiration. Tragically, my quest for the Holy Grail of sock yarns has been fruitless and barren. I have gazed upon glorious troves of sock yarns reminiscent of Rapunzel’s gold, but alas, my muse has yet to be unearthed. But perhaps Socks That Rock will break this wicked cycle! With this bright and shining paragon of sock yarn utopia, I will at last triumph over the mighty sock! Please grace me with some of this lovely yarn!!!

I've never even SEEN STR to touch and fondle. And I love knitting socks, they're my knitting therapy. Especially since we're having an awful cold January in a normally milder climate. I think winning some STR would be just the medicine I need to make it through to spring.

I've never knit with socks that rock because I've never actually SEEN a skein in person. Here in Toronto, I KNOW that Lettuceknit carries it, but damned if I've ever managed to get to the store in time to actually snap up a skein!

I'm beginning to think that socks that rock is some sort of legendary creature, heard of and told about but never to be glimpsed by mere mortals such as myself. Kind of like unicorns and satyrs and Santa Claus.

Oooh, ooh, pick me! Then, you can call up your buddy Tina and ask if she will create a new STR colorway for you to market -- for decency's sake, it should probably just be called "Cherry". Everyone in the know can snigger behind their hands like teenagers because they will know what that REALLY means. And then, every yarn-spouse out there will roll their eyes about how juvenile their knitter and hher/his bloggy friends can be :)

Why do I need STR? Well, because I am an admitted sock knitting addict keen on trying every sock yarn I can... I just started knitting my first pair of socks with Trekking XXL, and I'm dying to try Socks That Rock!

Another rockless sock knitter... no where to get it locally, never seen it while traveling. In the yarn-as-souvenir category it's never presented itself. (Although no for lack of trying.)

I may be a yarn whore, but I am a Socks That Rock virgin.

I've never tried STR because, as with many here I've never seen a skein in person. By the time I got to The Fold at MDS&W, there wasn't anything left and my LYS caters to the South Texas knitting crowd, which has an average age of 65 and leans towards novelty yarns. I'm slowly converting sock knitters down here and showing them a skein of STR might convince more than a few to finally give them a shot.

Holy wow, that was fast! If I am the 100th commenter on this post, is that a good reason? Well, probably not, and besides I'll probably get beaten out.

Aha! You should give me some STR because I am too slow ever to score any on my own. Too slow at Rhinebeck, and with yesterday's brouhaha I'm sure Blue Moon now has a 10-year waiting list.

I need the STR because: a) I LOVE knitting socks, but have never used STR b/c my own obsession has been Lorna's Laces; it's time to branch out; b) I just got two new Nancy Bush sock books and am ready to really start rocking some socks; but c) I have pretty much tapped out my yarn budget for awhile.

Not only am I a Socks That Rock virgin, I'm a posting a comment virgin! That's how bad I need to win. Plus I'm knitting from stash this year and can't buy my own. P.S. I really do love this blog. So much that I am posting just to say so.

Why do I need STR?

My boyfriend of six years has just left me. I might deserve it, but I still have a permanent knot in my stomach. The worst bit? I still have to go on a romantic trip to NYC with him next month. He was going to propose in Tiffanys.

With STR by my side, I might stop myself bankrupting myself in Purl. Maybe.

I have yet to experience the magic of hand knit socks or the wonders of sock yarn and I've heard that hand knit socks = happy feet. My feet have been so sad lately.

Amazing yarn = a superdooperecstatic Wendy

(off topic but I was wondering if there are any books (or other resources) on photography you would recommend? I'm a passionate photo novice and would really like to learn more.)

First try free, eh?

I haven't tried STR yet. I need to try it because I need to make a pair of socks for my mother, and what better way to induct her into the realm of handknit socks than with the crack of sock yarn?

I accidentally originally posted this as a comment to the wrong post. Take two--

Me: Sock knitter extraoridinaire. Have knit with everything but...Now ready to take the plunge with the right yarn.

You: Sexy sock yarn that can rock my world, if you know what I mean.

It's delurking week, and so I am delurking to say that I would love to try STR. I haven't found it anywhere around me (but then again, I only first heard of it a few months ago....) and can't wait to try it out.

I was already lusting after the STR when I read your post yesterday. I used to work for a bank. I can't think of a better way of symbolically thumbing my nose at the finacial industry that to knit my first pair of Jaywalkers with my first skein of Socks That Rock. Because, you know, there couldn't possibly be that many people interested in sock yarn.

I already commented but am laughing at the thought that we all can go so quickly from STR virgins to comment whores for the chance at making out with STR.

Yep. That's me. A STR virgin. I've made socks. I've heard about STR. But...I've never bit the bullet and bought any STR for myself. "Why not?" You ask. Well, I think that it's because I can never decide which colorway to go with. They're all so beautiful, I can't pick one. And I don't have nearly a large enough yarn budget to buy all of the ones that I want!

Pathetic excuse, but true. :)

Because I went to all the trouble of re-writing the jaywalker pattern toe-up, but have only ever knit them out of other yarns. :)

I grew up with a mother who would look at a designer dress and say, "$500! I could sew that for [insert ridiculously low amount of money]!" And the scary part was that she could.

So I absorbed the idea that paying X dollars for something was just crazed, and still have "wallet issues" when it comes to buying good sock yarn. *sigh*

you're so nice. i can guarantee that this post gets the most comments of all!

I need this yarn to feed my sock-knitting fixation. I knit my first pair of socks in 2006...Jaywalkers! In total I made 3 pairs in that year. I want to know what all of the hubbub is about...and whether the yarn deserves all the hype.

I've spent the last month doing nothing but write my dissertation - even on Christmas Day and New Year's Eve! I'm going batsh*t crazy and I need something soft and luscious to soothe my frazzled nerves after this is handed in next week. If only STR were available in England...

Well I have become HOOKED on socks. Just now getting into the "good stuff" with fun patterns and nice nice yarn! I have heard much about STR and have been wanting to do a pair. I am on my 4th pair of socks in the last 6 months......you can check my latest socks: Jaywalkers from Yarn Pirate yarn on my blog! :)

For my first pair of socks, I bought some really squeaky Bernat (I think) acrylic SOX yarn from Hobby Lobby, and used the pattern from the ball band. I basically just wanted to see if I could do it, you know? The second sock of that pair still needs about one inch of knitting. I found out I could do it, and the pattern worked up to a good fit for my foot, but I'm not in love with it.
For the second pair, I chose a bamboo/polypropylene mix and purchased a pattern for a hiking sock from the manufacturer. The yarn is soft and the color combo I chose is nice (in an eye-exploding kind of way), but I'm still not feeling the sock love. The second sock is about 65% complete, in spite of attending various conferences with me.
I'm looking for a real sock yarn, something that will make me want to knit an outstanding sock and wear it as much as possible.

Thank god I'm not the only virgin. I'd love it give STR a try because I'm on a search for the perfect sock yarn. Great color, texture, feel and washing abilites! That last one is just about killing me. I have yet to find sock yarn that cleans up well. Makes me afraid to wash them, & I've got stinky feet!

I never allow myself to spend money on hand-dyed yarn. I tell myself over and over that I could make it myself. I suppose I'm wrong about this STR, huh?

I need STR because the first (and only) pair of socks that I've knit were with some stringy boring sock yarn. Because of the stringy yarn, those socks have been sitting unfinished in my knitting basket for months, and I didn't catch the sock bug. There must be something fabulous about knitting socks, and I think this yarn will help me to see the light.

Nothing gets me to delurk like prizes! I NEED the STR for 2 main reasons:

1) I've committed to not purchasing ANY yarn until June 1;
2) The only sock yarn in my stash, or that I've ever used, is of the 'el cheapo' variety.

Also, I'm dieting, and STR looks like the next best thing to chocolate, but with no POINTS! Help a hungry girl out!

Oh, Cara, you know my story. I went to Rhinebeck to find STR but because of horrible traffic conditions I got there after the hordes had bought it all up. I told you that sad story in person that afternoon when I met you. I can't tell you how much time I've spent asking Pearl Chin when Knitty City is going to start carrying STR since that day!

Flash forward to your birthday, January 1, when I happily join the Rockin' Sock Club and note that there is now a shopping cart function on the Blue Moon webpage and so I can order with ease - yay! I fork over my $210 and wait for the glorious moment when my first Sock Club shipment will arrive.

And then I am thwarted by an evil bank who doesn't understand that some of us have been waiting a YEAR for this sock yarn. Foiled again. And waiting for the shopping cart function on BMFA's webpage to work again so I can re-sign up for the Club.

(Was that sad and pathetic enough for you? ;))

What a sweet thing to do! Ummm, lessee, well, STR would be my first ever knit socks so how's that? 2 cherries for the price of one, hehe. I've petted STR, drooled over the colors, but resisted because it's bloody expensive (and worth it) and I suspected I'd have to knit a full sweater in it which kinda breaks the budget. Anyway, thanks again for corrupting the 'innocent'!

Through anamazing coincidence, I wandered over to the Blue Moon website right when sign-ups were open for the sock club. In the cold light of day when the 'send your money' email arrived, I realized actually how much it'll cost, me being an international (Canadian) customer. With the exchange rate, possible duty on top of everything else, it is way out of my price range.

Anyone need a sign up code? :P

Never seen, touched (fondled), smelled, knit with, or otherwise experienced a single smidge of STR. Ever! It's on my "to buy someday" list, but I'm not buying any more sock yarn until I work through all (or nearly all) of what I currently own. No stores around here carry it, and none of the localish fiber festivals have had any either.

I've been wondering what all the hype is about--and can it possibly live up to it?

I have never knit socks and since hearing you wax rhapsodic about this yarn, I am dying to! There's no place near me that has it, however. I keep going to the website and ogling it, then coming back and imagining fondling your STR stash. I'm getting pretty perverse over this yarn for a virgin! Hope my lucky number comes up...

Here's the thing...when I was learning to knit socks, I only wanted to use cheap yarn, you know, to practice on, in case I screwed them up - I didn't want to waste really good yarn on my crappy socks. Now I've made a few (5) pair, and have even done a couple more interesting patterns, and I feel like I'm ready to graduate to the good stuff. And, as I hear it, Socks that Rock is the best there is.

Yes, I am a STR virgin. I've never even seen STR in real life. But after reading your blog for ages with you going on and on about STR, you have convinced me that this must be the best stuff on the face of the earth. I don't have a sad story so I guess if you don't pick me, I'm just going to have to suck it up and buy some of my own.

Memememememememememe. Oh please. I am desperately longing to knit some gorgeous socks from this yarn.

I have never used STR yarn in my knitting career yet. I don't keep much of a stash, mostly just yarn leftovers and three skeins of worth of other sock yarn. I had great intentions to keep a sock on my needles at all times. They are great to travel with afterall. Then I had a terrible jaywalker experience. Tried doing it toe up, and with a short row heal. It was too snug and I couldn't get the cuff over my heal. It put me into a deap frogging depression and I have not touched a sock since. Perhaps I need some renewed inspiration? Some fabulous yarn to put me back into the sock groove. Maybe something to give the Jaywalker pattern another shot. Please consider me for your give away.

In other news I recently lost a skein of angora\wool to my dog. *SOB* His spit felted the knots in place and I couldn't untangle it. RIP angora\wool blend.

i'm a sock knitting virgin! but i'd love to try... also- its getting down into the 20s at night in california! i need beautiful hand knit socks! ; ) yours are always so amazing, i'd love to try the jaywalk pattern which looks sooooo good in the str.
thanks for your blog! its always good to read!

Because my $$ for yarn is on SERIOUS husband lockdown...

**weeps in shame**

I've been dying to try this yarn since I started reading about it on your blog. And I was thinking, who better to pop my cherry than Cara?

Pick Me---I'm a Socks-That-Rock-Groupie-Wanna-Be!!!!!!

PLEASE xoxoxoo

I need it badly because I am on a yarn diet. Also because I'm from Finland, and we definitely don't have STR here. And my feet are cold. And also because I think that you are a very nice person. :-)

I haven't knit with this yarn because I haven't been able to shell out the bucks to get it. I've got a tight knitting budget and unfortunately it hasn't been in the cards. I got to the Blue Moon website occasionally and look at the colors, but I haven't been able to place an order. I love knitting socks but I'm in a sock funk right now. Some STR would definitely pull me out!

I'm no virgin. I'm a Sock Yarn Harlot. I joined the STR Sock Club last year and I still have 3 skeins left. I even gave one away. I think this yarn is too good for socks. It should be knit into scarves and blankets and baby clothes.

You'd have to pay me to take that yarn. >:p

I have wanted to try this yarn, but have never found it in any of the local yarn shops. I do try to shop locally whenever I can.
Thank you.
Happy New Year!

I love to knit socks(you can see my blog)but here (in Mexico), there is only one yarn for socks (a yarn that is the same as Cascade Fixation, but with other name). I discovered STR because of your blog, and I love the colors and the socks you made. In fact there are sock patterns that I will knit until I have STR (Jaywalkers, Pomatomus, RPM). I registered for the club,but I'm on a tight budget now, I think I won't make it.

I need this yarn because the only yarn I have been able to afford to knit socks is knitpicks essentials. I have abandoned kinky dreams of lusty nights with my Darling for fairy-tale like fantacy's of colorfull waves of superwash merino bliss. I find my blog time filled with wistfully surfing the Blue Moon site, picking my favorite colorways and trying to figure out the market value of my left kidney.
I am a 20 yo college student knitter of two years with 15 bucks in my checking account. I work in a stable (by 'work' I mean I come in everyday and school horses/clean stalls for free for 10 hours a day) on top of an upstate NY hill where my poor feet get frozen. I NEED to knit some socks for myself, and you can bet any STR would not be given away, I am just not that nice.
Please PLEASE help me Cara, this obsession is driving my poor muggle boyfriend insane (even if he loves the striped socks I knit him, hypocrite) My feet and my lovelife will both be ruined if I don't get my greedy paws on some STR soon, I can feel it.

Well, I would LOVE to try STR, but there don't seem to be any sellers around me. I don't want to order it, never having tried it. If I win, this would be a great opportunity for me to see how it knits up!

I'm afraid I'll have to abandon all of my Trekking socks to knit up STR because they'll be so much softer--and I don't have enough meetings to go to and knit to do that!

Well, not only have I never used the coveted STR, but I still have yet to knit socks. I have complete faith that they would turn out great- I've made half a pair of fuzzy feet, mastered the dpns, and can execute beautiful cables. I just haven't had time! Not to mention, my yarn budget falls way short of affording such luxurious sock yarn...

Why do I need STR yarn? Honestly, I probably don't. I have 2 pairs of socks waiting for me to have the time to knit them, and I knit slowly.

Why do I _want_ the STR? For the delicious, so-vivid-I-can-taste-them colors! When I was 4, I used to look through catalogs so I could lose myself the "rainbows" of colors in which each item was offered. My months, music, flavors, feelings and sensations have colors associated with them. The leaves of a white ash in October look like vouvray wine tastes. From what I hear, STR colors are a visceral experience. I crave that kind of color.

You're very kind, by the way, offering people the chance to try it for free. Either that, or you're like a crack dealer. That's why I haven't tried it yet. I can't afford to become a STR junkie.

I need this yarn because being a virgin at my advanced age is oh so painful and shameful and oh what not,,,

I am an STR virgin, it's true. I have never let a skein of STR have its way with me. The whys don't matter.

The reason why you want to give me a skein of STR is to save lives. Because if there is one less virgin promised in heaven to a suicide bomber then the whole deal is off, and the terrorists don't win.

WOW! Did you get the comments on this one! You've popped my cherry already with your birthday contest. I fell asleep with my STR last night. Granted it was just sitting on the passenger side of my bed...taunting me to knit a swatch.

I actually want to nominate La - from Jen La. She is on the knit from your stash diet, so she can't actually ask for it herself. Cara, she has recently discovered socks and has no STR. And, have you seen her stash? It's anorexic already. It's calling to be fed. Please consider sending a hank to her and converting her to the one and only true sock yarn. If she doesn't get picked, she will be unable to experience this amazing yarn until the middle of the year. (I want her to have it so bad, that I would send her one of mine, but I have made an unholy alliance and can't)

Once upon a time I managed to score two skeins STR at a fiber fest. Alas I have since gifted both skeins to others who have no opportunity to experience it. So even though I’ve bought it I still haven’t knit with it. If I received some as a gift… well then I wouldn’t be tempted to give it away and I’d finally be able to knit with it. :)

I need some STR because I just recently started expanding my sock yarn stash to include the fancy sock yarns, like Fleece Artist, Schaeffer Anne, Interlacements, Lorna's Laces etc. I never used any fancy sock yarns before so I thought I should get a sample of each one and one of the only fancy sock yarns I don't have in my collection to try is STR. It wouldn't be right to not have it in this collection since it would not be a representative sample of fancy sock yarns without it :)

I am another Canadian kntter and avowed "natural fibre snob". My husband is continually saying that I must not love him very much because I never knit him socks. This is becuase I really haven't enjoyed knittng socks -- I've only made about three pairs, all for him, and all out of fat and scratchy yarns. And yet... there are so many beautiful patterns for socks knit in actual sock-weight yarn, so many avowed sock-knitting fanatics, and so many beautiful colours at BMFA. Perhaps a sampling of STR would convert me !

You really know how to bring the commenters of the woodwork! I'm an STR virgin and I needs me some because I'm knitting an Aran sweater for my 6'3" 240 lb. husband in yarn I don't particularly care for, on size 5 needles. Have mercy!

I must admit to having owned a skein of STR. Yet I too gifted it to someone, since it was so beautiful, and exactly to the tastes of the recipient. Since then I've never even been in the same room as another skein of STR,and I've always wished I could find it again...

I need socks that rock since the winter in Finland doesn't rock. We haven't got real snow yet (usually it happens before Christmas) and it is COLD. All this darkness and coldness would be nicely brightened by this gorgeous yarn to cuddle, knit and love :).

Because my DH has said I can't buy any more yarn until I lose 10 more pounds.

(Well, I'll go ahead and buy some and then apologize. It's easier to do that then to ask for permission.)

I haven't knit with STR - I love the colours but these are expensive high-end yarns what with shipping to Europe would be luxury I cannot afford. I knit only three (3) pairs for myself last year (using cheap 80% wool) but I knit a lot for my family and friends. But I never ever won anything in my entire life, either! Ah well....

I have been wanting to try this yarn for a while too. I am unable to make any purchases right now (and sadly that includes yarn, even sock yarn). Have mercy on a POOR girl. Thanks

I have never even knit socks before..last Saturday I bought a couple sizes of dbl pointed needles, I am determined to learn to knit socks, there are SO many people knitting them. I want to be with the IN crowd.
So, I have never used STR, but hope to soon with your help.

Thanks, and crossing my fingers, Joanie R.

I have been wanting to try "socks that rock" yarn for a long time now. I've seen it on "the Harlot's" site more than once and think it is beautiful and the patterns are beautiful and challenging. I work at a little yarn shop and think it would be benificial for the customers if I could broaden my experience with new yarns. How's that? Should I start begging now? Please, please, please pick me!!!
I promise I'll knit it up as fast as I can!

Wow! There sure are a lot of people who want in on the STR action! Pick me, pick me! The only fancy sock yarn I have ever used is Lorna's Laces... (lovely lovely lovely!) Plus, I am currently enamoured with 'La dame blanche' and think some nice socks in tribute to this work would be excellent. (But only if they were very pale, of course.) :)

It is true, there are those like me that have never knit with Socks that Rock. The only sock yarn that I bought for myself (the first set was a gift) was actually bought for another project, and I just happened to have bought enough for a pair of socks as well. Since I'm low on spending cash, I just haven't gone and bought some yet. I hope my expectations aren't too high!

I deserve to try STR for a couple of reasons. For one, I've not yet knit a sock! Yep, though I own tons of sock yarn, I haven't yet knit a sock (check my blog for confirmation). The reason for that is that I just graduated from nursing school! Now that I have time to knit, I'd love to try out STR. I was going to join the 2007 club, but right now I just can't afford it. I think that as an STR and sock knitting virgin making my first pair with STR would be fitting, don't you think? :)

I've never tried it b/c I've never been able to get my hands on some locally - the LYS that sells it sells it quickly before I can get to it. I'm tired of non-descript socks - I need socks that rock :)

I need STR because I want to experience the joy of knitting nirvana! Please help me.

My friends, they make fun of me, because they KNOW. At the yarn store, they laugh and point and I cower, for I feel I am less of a knitter. My inexperience glows red on my cheeks. Because my affections for STR, which I thought I hid so well, my unfulfilled passion remains unrequited.

I noticed the yarn long ago, splayed across the table as half finished socks my friends toss about at knitting group, the saturated colors glorious in the summer light. My friends pass the STR from hand to hand, sharing their skeins and mingling them in an orgy of color and pleasure. At times, when my friends were distracted by a K7tog or a particulary preplexing bind off, I've even reached my hand deep into the cleft of a nearby skein, delved into the warmth and softness in its center. It made me feel dirty, but oh, so good, this illicit flirtation. But I am a woman. I need more.

At Rhinebeck, I slipped away from my group, hovered in the shadows in anticipation of a tryst at the STR booth. I brought my best Addies. And wore clean underwear. I even shaved my legs.

But my lover, um, I mean the STR, abandoned me there, knee deep in mud among the lowing sheep and the bunnies, for unfaithful STR had long since departed in the eager hands of other, looser admirers. I cried, arms empty of the STR I so desired, then sought solace in a sordid pile of Morehouse. I am ashamed, yet can you blame me?

And so I languish here, staring at the STR on your site, trying to reign in the jealousy that rages in my heart. For I need STR. I want it.

STR and I ~ we are meant to be together.

I'm an STR virgin! I need some because I need to try many more sock yarns before next October so I can write another information sock yarn review about easy of knitting, washing, and wear of the resulting socks! Plus, I'd love to design a pattern using STR!

I NEED your STR yarn because I don't seem able to get any any other way in the UK. There's a whole new market here, that really would make the bank scared!

I've been knitting socks for a year with some super ugly sock yarn picked up from a local discount yarn outlet. I need some non-ugly yarn to knit with!

I've never used STR because I couldn't buy any at Rhinebeck. It was all sold out by Sunday.

And I'm studying for my CPA exams and all can I knit are small things. No powers of concentration left over for my knitting.

Because ... because I have too much sock yarn that is Regia and Opal and none of which is calling my name, and because I am on a yarn diet, *sob*, and BECAUSE I ACTUALLY ASKED FOR STR FOR HANNUKAH AND DIDN'T GET IT!!!! *big sob*

On an unrelated note, I LOVED "Half Magic" as a child, and recently introduced it to my son, who says it is "the best book he has ever read." Ha!

I would love, love, love to knit with STR sock yarn! I've never tried it! In fact, when I considered buying some @ Rhinebeck, the line was SO long that I decided against it....I should have realized that the long line was just a testament to how amazing STR is! Upon realizing my mistake, I flogged myself 100 times with a wet strand of yarn...

I'd love some STR because I've been having some sock-knitting issues with my fat ankles, and I just have a feeling that if I casted on with STR, they would miraculously fit perfectly, no matter what the pattern. Let's give it a try, heh?

I have never knit with STR, but I'd love to! I know everyone says it's amazing, but I've never had the chance to feel it in person (I live in the middle of nowhere), and haven't yet gotten the courage up to buy it un-fondled. So, if I win, this could definitely be a gateway drug ;)

I've not yet tried Socks that Rock, but I am starting to covet the yarn. I look at the site regularly, consider buying some but talk myself out of it since I already have so much yarn. Please help me in my obsession with STR!

so i just went through a breakup with a guy that i thought was "the one". so rather than spend my days snuggling with my cat and watching golden girls re-reuns on lifetime i've decided to look for "other ones" in other parts of my life. my mission has led to my embrace of the pointy knitpicks needles that are oh so perfect for knitting socks on circulars. but, but, what to knit the socks that will be "the one" pair out of? befuddled i turned to the web and eyed, lustily. i've tried a couple of pick up lines ("is that an addi in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?" and "did it hurt when you fell from heaven?") but alas, STR has had many generous, and far more experienced sock lovers ... and I am, quite honestly, intimidated. What if I don't measure up to previous sock knitters? What if STR compares me to its other sockfriends?

To be sure, there are many risks - but I'd love the opportunity to make STR proud to be mine.

I'm a Socks That Rock virgin and the reason I need that yarn is to help me true the beginning of this new year around. 2007 has begun with me being suspended from my job for standing up for myself. I won't known until Tuesday the 16th if I'm going to be terminated (which will start a legal saga of my own.) This has been an extremely hard week. Being gifted a skein of STR would be a spark of goodness and restore my faith in karma. (Ok that last part might be a bit dramatic but in my heart today - it's true.)

STR is the whole reason I came to your blog. I did a search on something abstract term relating to color, and lo and behold, in the Google Images window, was the loveliest yarn I'd ever seen. It was a photo of STR from your blog. I had just gotten back from my first trip ever to Pennsylvania, which included a night in Philadelphia; I stayed near Rittenhouse Square and visited the Mutter Museum the next day.

Anyway.

After reading your blog, I decided: I MUST TRY SOCKS. I went to my LYS and got tiny bamboo dpns. I looked at the sock yarn. It didn't look like any great shakes but I thought, well, it will look nicer when it's all knit up. Shah! So wrong! Where do people get the ideas for those colors? I wasn't real happy with the sock and I doubted I'd be able to make it through the second one, if I ever finished the first.

Then my three-year-old son pulled the dpns out of the sock not once, twice, or thrice, but four times. After that I pretty much bagged it.

So. I guess what I'm saying is that the right yarn could turn me around and make me want to knit socks again. Especially if they made me look as fabulous as you do in your knee highs.

And this time I'll be getting circulars.

Ah, Socks that Rock. Perhaps they can help me create the elusive heaven-for-the-feet that handknit socks are supposed to deliver. I've only used KnitPicks thus far (budget, you see) and they're good, but they're not great.

Also, the Westing Game was a favorite of mine too. I mentioned it to my husband and couldn't believe when he said he'd never heard of it!

LOL! You're going to get some weird visitors with that title to your post...LOL! Why do I need it? Because I need more yarn like I need a hole in the head...and STR would be worth the hole...LOL

I live in Nebraska and my feet are cold. They need some STR to keep them warm and to make them look hot!

I have not had the chance to knit with STR...I waited and waited at Rhinebeck, but the line was sooooo long and there was soooooo little left that I was afraid I would never make it out of Building A. Finally I had to run up to random people (happily clutching their STR) just to ask to touch it. Ah well....

I am a virgin turning 30 in 52 more days so I need a little present to cheer me up. Oh yeah, and I have never knit with STR before. So I guess my cherry needs to be popped in more ways than one :O)

Dear Bountiful Goddess Bequeathing STR,

I have never knit with STR. The first time I saw STR in person was at The Fold at Rhinebeck this past year... but I could only attend Sunday. By the time I got there, the only skeins they had left were in a funny mustard colour. I had heard *so* much about STR. Could all the hype be true? Did that hype really apply to the funny mustard coloured skein? Did I want to risk my limited yarn money on it? *Dilemma*! I decided to think it over and come back later. If the skein was still there, it was meant to be. Otherwise? I guess not.

Sadly, it was not to be. When I returned later in the day (having already spent more than I should have), the skein was *gone*. *sigh*

Although I would dearly *love* (with lots of asterisks) for you to choose me as one of your STR virgins to have their cherries popped, I feel I am not worthy. I have squandered a perfectly good opportunity at Rhinebeck. I do not deserve a second chance... not when so many people couldn't even make it to Rhinebeck at all!

Plus, after joining the Lime and Violet sock yarn marathon, I discovered I have approximately 4.68 *miles* (more asterisks... miles are *big*) of lovely sock yarn. Truly, with such bounty at hand, I am not deserving of STR.

Instead of imploring you to send some lovely STR to me, here in *frozen* (and thus *need* wool socks) Winterpeg (official name on the map is Winnipeg), I will strive to improve myself by appreciating (and knitting) my stash, and hope that my toes don't freeze off in the -48 C (-54.4 F) windchill.

Sincerely,
STR Virgin Andrea (Noricum)

I'll tell you why I don't need this yarn. I already have 20 skeins (or is that 20 x 2?) of Lorna's Laces and I've yet to knit a sock out of it. I have Koigu, Opal, Louet Gems, JaWolle, Regia, Sakatelli, Wildefoote, Lion Brand Magic Stripes, Sheaffer Anne, Cascade Fixation, and too many others to remember. If you pick my name, I hearby designate you, Cara, as my backup recipient and the yarn is YOURS to keep! Yes, I knit socks but I'm S...L...O...W.....

I'm a STR Virgin! I think it's because there is only 1 retailer in Canada, and it's not in my hometown. I've been a knitter for a year, and I just just just found out about STR! I'm dying to try it!!!

I am a virgin on STR yarn! I live in Europe, am a poor graduate student with a part-time job, and never had the guts to try ordering an expensive yarn from the USA, after two lousy times where customs made yarn packages I bought from USA stores arrive A MONTH AND A HALF later, with a customs tax which doubled the yarn's price :( So, I was waiting to get a bit richer to try the wonderful colours...

Pleaaaase, pick me! ;-) You can see that I REALLY am a virgin on this yarn, if you check my stash blog :)

I truly wish I had the pleasure of trying STR but unfortunately I have a non understanding muggle husband that just doesn't condone such spending (plus shipping) for sock yarn that has to travel across the border at double the shipping. I have on occasion snuck some cherry tree hill into the house diguised as a gift for a secret pal, and oh my I fell in love. If STR is anything like it, I'm just gonna have to kick some muggle butt and insist on this little pleasure. There's gotta be other hiding places in this house. Just gotta find em between the four kids and the hub,they seem to be able to track down anything I stash. As long as STR Rocks as much as the boss, I'm sure I'd love it.

i am a STR virgin (we wont discuss the other kind of virgin) and socks is my favourite thing to knit. i always have one going, and in fact i am just ten rows from starting toe decreases on the second of a new pair today! i've used Trekking, Opal, LanaGrosse MegaBoots, Universal Ditto, LionBrand Magic Stripes (deeeeeeesgusting but cheap!) and i would *so* like to knit with a gourmet yarn just once. now, to be fully honest, i did find 2 balls of DB Baby Cashermerino in a grab bag of yarn at the thrift store which i hand-dyed at a dyeing workshop last summer, and with that i knit a lovely pair of heavy socks, but from all i've heard, STR is even better.

~~crossing fingers that i am chosen~~

i just knit my first sock ever. and it aint pretty. must be the yarn. i know that a STR sock would make a much better sock.

and the 14th is my birthday. wouldn't you like to give a birthday present to a random stranger?

I am a sock yarn junkie but I can't make up my mind between all their beautiful colors. This would be a great way to be introduced to their yarns! Thanks for having this giveaway!

I have been on their site - wanting to join the club but didn't.
I knit sock - i call that mindless knitting !!!!
I have knitted socks with Regia and Koigu... Wanted to try SweetGeorgia handdyeds but didn't and frankly with all the turmoil about STR I go to their site everyday.... call that teasing yourself, or being a bit on a "maso" side! Ah! Ah!

I don't know why I haven't tried STR either...I know I would eventually, but if I can get it thru a drawing, even better. I need it for the same reason I need ANY yarn...do I need to say why??

I've been reading about STR for some time. I even thought about joining the Club this year, but financial circumstances convinced me I should wait. As well as the fact that the only pair of socks I have ever knit was a small toddler size pair on size 6 needles with DK yarn.

I purchased a couple of Dave's (http://cabincove.com) beautiful yarn to try socks, but haven't tried. I figured I should use one of the ones I bought before I spend more $$ on STR.

But, hey, if it's free, I'll use it first! :)

I've been knitting for less than a year and have learned many new things... it's time for socks!

I've never knit with Socks That Rock because I was worried it was overhyped and the one skein I actually saw in a yarn store was in a color that reminded me of peaches and cream and nothing like the gorgeous skeins I've seen all over the internet.

I have yet to take the plunge and go order some for myself, and now I'm knitting from my stash for a while. Gifts are allowed, naturally.
I've knit with just about everything else. I need some Socks That Rock.
True story.

Dear Cara,

I have never knit with STR, though I have oogled it on blogs and websites. I have never seen any in person though and my LYS doesn't carry it.

I am a college student and single mom which kind of puts me on a Non-voluntary yarn diet. :( My purchases have been few and far between lately. I keep meaning to pick up a skein, but I never have.

Thanks for doing this contest!!

Steph

Socks. The first thing I learned to knit. Because I learned at the end of a German winter and never wanted to see another sweater as long as I lived.

I will admit, I've fooled around with STR. I've gone to third base with Granite. I swooned, I ogled, I even BOUGHT some for my mother. I showed my handsome friend off to all my friends. We parked at my place for a little while, but I maintained the purity of my resolve. To give, rather than to enjoy it all for myself.

Oh my gosh, look at all the comments...I've looked at the yarn, so many times, and have lusted after it, drool dripping down my mouth...today, 12 Jan, is my birthday, I'm 53 years old, I love to knit socks and rarely knit them for myself (most always gifted, out of all the socks I've knit I have 2 pair) and at my age, seriously, if there's a cherry left out there to pop...it just oughta be popped! If I were to receive a skein of this wonder-yarn I promise I would consider it a birthday gift and therefore the socks would be mine....I know that sounds selfish but I'm really not at all a selfish woman....I am in fact sending out gifts to a woman who guessed my birthdate in a little contest I had at my blog. Thank you for this opportunity.

The sad truth is that, not only have I never used STR yarn, but I have not yet knit any socks- it's one of my resolutions for 2007 - to learn to knit socks. I can't think of a better way to do that than on STR yarn!

I have never knit with STR because.... my well-meaning mother keeps promising to buy me some for birthday, Christmas, whathaveyou. But when it comes to the actual ordering, liek over the phone and everything?, she gets a little confused. They don't have the color she picked out on the webpage, so she just doesn't order. Doesn't she know I would lile ANY color? But I just keep waiting... surely she'll just it right one of these day!

Holy shit! I thought I was in the minority, but apparently there are a few others out there who haven't knit with STR. I need some of your most excellent STR because I'm living in the frozen north up here - Wyoming and Colorado appear to be the only states actually having winter - and my feet love warm handmade socks. Plus, I'd kind of like to figure out what all the fuss is about.

I've always enjoyed reading about STR on your blog (and others' blogs), but have never knit with it. None of my LYSs carry STR and I fear purchasing yarn that I've never touched after a few disappointments purchasing yarn online and not having it be as great as I expected. The STR colors are so gorgeous I don't want to be disappointed. I've been trying to talk my LYSs into carrying it so I can touch it, but no luck so far. Thanks for the opportunity.

I am a double virgin! I've never knit with socks that rock (or for that matter knit and completed a sock) and have also never commented on a blog. I keep hoping to find that special yarn that will make me understand the passion for knitting socks. So far it hasn't happened...

I've made exactly one purchase of STR, but haven't ever knit with it, since I actually gave those skeins away as gifts to people who couldn't get it otherwise. :D

It's simple, really.

I have never before knitted a pair of socks.

To start the sock knitting, one requires the best, most fun sock yarn out there. Hence, I neeeeeeeed a skein of STR if I'm ever going to start knitting socks!

Thanks for the drawing!

I haven't tried STR because of the price. I wont lie...it's not that I don't WANT the yarn. I NEED the yarn.I find myself asking....yarn? bills? ........bills? yarn? Always a hard decision.
Alot of times if I'm having a bad day I just go to their website and browse. Heck,knitpicks too. It always helps.
( I need to get out more)
Socks are pretty much all I have knit. I just recently cast on for a cardigan.I guess I'm a virgin at most things knitting! :)

I have not tried STR cuz I am easily addicted to the pretty sock yarns, ie, Koigu, Plain and Fancy Sheep and Wool, etc. if I receive the STR I will have to set aside every other project OTN to devote full attn to this lovely yarn. But I will not be able to take it to knit group until they are done for fear of them "walking away" before they are done, hehe.

I haven't tried STR, yet! I had my first sock lesson in Sept and I have knit nothing but socks since. I made my first pair with ArtYarn, my next four pairs with Crown Mountain (VT), my next pair with Koigu and my current pair with Colinette Jitterbug. So you see I haven't found my one true love yet.....except for socks!

44 year old virgin. Enough said.

I'm a STR virgin because, as I try to pull myself out of the spiraling black hole of despair that is the first year of law school, I'm getting no action, knitting or otherwise. None. And a skein of STR has got to be more comforting to curl up with, with a glass of wine on a dark, dismal night, than the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.

I have puchased 1 skein of it, but never knit with it. I gave away my skein (it was the Lucy colorway). So I still have yet to knit with STR! Not sure that's a very powerful reason but being how terribly picky I am about sock yarn I just have yet to find any I like.

I have a medical condition that causes my extremeties to be extremely cold (especially my feet). I learned to knit socks this summer and in addition to becoming absolutely addicted, my feet have never been warmer! Unfortunately, I still do not have enough handknit socks to wear every day. I've never knit with STR, mainly because I haven't found a source nearby, but it has been high on my list for quite some time now. Please, please, my cold feet *need* that STR sock yarn!

I need it like a hole in the head right now, but that's okay, I'd still love it if I won it. And I never have knit with it. And I'm knitting from stash this year, so you are my only hope...

I've been drooling at pictures of that yarn, pictures of socks made from that yarn. I think at some point I promised myself some gorgeous sock yarn as a reward for something, but sadly that something never happened...

Hi, please pick me. Here's the thing. I want to looooove sock knitting. So far, it's ok, but maybe it's the yarn. I want to love sock knitting so much that every person I love will have a pair of socks handknit by me. But that's not going to happen unless I fall deeply and irrevocably in love with sock knitting. I think STR could be my sock Georgie.

I'd like this yarn because I've vowed not to buy any yarn for the next 6 months when I go to a local yarn festival, and I'm praying that there is a STR booth there so I can purchase some. My LYS doesn't carry it, and I don't have a credit card so I can't order it online. Thanks for the run contest!

From reading your blog I know how much you love it, so I gatta try it!

Yes, I too am a STR virgin. I've only just found out about this yarn in the last few months, but I am intrigued by it. None of the LYS in my neck of the woods carries it, so I would have to order it online.

I've been knitting for just over a year. I have knit about a dozen pair of socks since then ranging in size from infant to adult. If I were to get this yarn, I would finally knit a pair for me! I do not wear socks very often, much to the consernation of my hubby. So I am thinking this might break the habit as I have noticed that my oldest son has started wearing socks much more often since I knit him 2 pairs of socks.

I have never knitted with STR....hell I can't even get past the heel of a sock it goes all murky on me. But I would love to knit with some STR...pick me pick me please.

I drool over your STR images wheneve you post and no LYS carries it in Vancouver. I just learned how to knit socks on 2 circs and I am absolutely loving my new addiction and a skein of STR will just put me over the top!!!!

Hi Cara,

What a generous offer! I love your passion for the things you love.

It's true I am a STR virgin, and I NEED this yarn so I could have the COOLEST post ever on my brand new blog.

p.s. your blog is gonna get some crazy google hits after this!

hi cara,
i am another STR virgin! i've drooled over the lovely colorways, imagined its silky softness, admired all the lovely STR projects on your blog... yet i've never used it :( i'm a relatively new sock knitter and i would *love* to try this... thanks for the contest opportunity!
warmly
amisha

I have not used STR and I would LOVE LOVE LOVE to try it. I keep putting it on my birthday and Christmas list but my family is afraid of yarn shopping, even though they do love to wear the finished results (especially handknit socks).

I need this sock yarn as one of my New Year's Resolutions for 2007 was to "fall in love" and give up my virginity - to STR of course - you could help me keep one resolution this year!

Psssst. Hi. Amber's feet here. Amber is too shy to post this, but she is a STR virgin. And WE are suffering. Oh, how we long to be engulfed in those beautiful colors, oh how we dream of the softness, oh how deprived we feel when we read about your lucky feet, Cara.

Please help us. Please.

I can't bring myself to buy yarn sight unseen. And I have never sighted a skein of STR. At last year MDS&W, the booth disappeared on Sunday when I had a chance to get there (apparently from running out of skeins the Saturday before?). At Churchmouse Yarns and Teas, it was on order.

Would love to get a skein.

Thank you,
Rikki

Well, I never in my life wore selfknitted socks, although I did knit quite many pairs. Why? Because I did not like the feeling on my feet.
So, from all the good things you told us, this must be THE yarn for my feet.
So far I never had my hands on STR. Why? I'm living abroad.

I love those ever changing pictures on your page.

Why haven't I tried STR? Because I'm a poor person with no credit card, and my LYS doesn't carry it. Got to admit, though, from reading knitblogs, I haven't heard a single bad thing about STR. People trust STR. STR is widespread and versatile. Can't say that losing my sock vriginity to someyarn so experienced would be a bad thing.

You know, I love knitting socks. Love them. But, for some reason I am completely intimidated by the beauty of STR and have much anxiety over not doing the yarn justice.

Hi, Cara, I'm 71 and have been reading your blog because you keep me up to date on a young person's life. I have never made a comment on anyone's blog. This past week-end I went to our hospital auxiliaries retreat at the beach in Lincoln City, Or. (BTW it snowed for the 1st time on the beach. Beautiful.)
One of the gals was knitting socks. Everyone ooohed and aaahed at the socks. I was knitting my usual wash cloth. (I used to knit socks and sweaters and baby caps.) No one really believed that I could knit socks. I would like your pattern to prove that I can do socks.
Belated Happy Birthday. I think you're amazing. Love, Laura

I NEED this yarn because I have lusted over the gorgeous colorways for months and months, but have never had the opportunity to actually fondle the yarn.

p.s. I also love Bruce, does that help?

STR?? What's STR??? Have heard about it but never used it.

Holy cow, the competition is fierce! I have never knit with STR because I can't seem to get my hands on it at fiber festivals. The booth is raided within the first five minutes and we're usually distracted on our way to the booth by something else, meaning no STR for me!

I love knitting socks and have never tried STR. It would be just the thing to turn my so far crappy 2007 around to the brighter side. I started the year sick and haven't kicked it yet. On Monday my washing machine freaked out and flooded my house. The insurance adjuster can't come out until next week and won't authorize any work until he sees the damage. The laundry room and garage need to be gutted and the furnace replaced. I hope they can get it together before my whole house turns into a moldy death trap. The light in the hotel room we are in sucks for knitting, but I would totally work it out if I could finally experience the joy of some STR!

I need STR (socks that rock) because my closet is full of STPACM (socks that prefer adult contemporary music).

I know I probably don't deserve it, but I've been coveting STR since I first saw a pair of socks knit with it on a blog. Being a college student, paying her own way with no support from anyone (not even student loans) makes it