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Sock News: SOCK CAMP and a CONTEST!

What’s happening at Blue Moon-land in February?  So much, that we’re literally spinning with it all. Lucky for us we’re kind of all about the yarn with an extra twist.

First of all, it’s getting to be that Sock Camp time of the year, the time of year when Notorious Sock Knitters pack up their sock knitting tools, sense of adventure, camaraderie and head off to the wilds of the Resort at Port Ludlow for a rollicking knitting time. We’re so excited about this year because we’re going to be sock knitting pirates at Camp Cast Away. Along with our usual cast of characters, Stephanie Pear-McPhee, Debbi Stone and myself, we are lucky to have Lucy Neatby and Carson Demers joining us this year. We are pretty thrilled to have them both.

If you are a sock club member you’ll be able to register on February 15th ( 2012 Rockin’ Sock Club still has spots left.). If there is still room, we’ll open it for sock knitters at large, on February 18th.

We’ll be putting registration details up on the site on the 15th of February.

Along with Camp this year we are having a CONTEST.

I know… we all love a good contest and this is a good one, at least we think it is.

Every year that there’s been camp, there’s been a camp tee-shirt.  We like to think of them as collectible. (We can tell you that they make up the backbone of our wardrobes.)

There’s been graphics, pictures, every year is different, but this year we wanted to be really, really different.  This year, we want one of you to design it, so we’re having a contest.

There are a very few rules.

1. It has to do with the theme.  The theme is pirates. It’s called Camp Cast Away.

2. It has to say “ BMFA Sock Camp 2012” somewhere on it.

3. The design can go on the front or back.

4. Anyone can enter, even if they’re not a camper.

Besides those 4 rules, the shirt design can be anything you like. Just words, words and a picture, words and a drawing, just a drawing, whatever pleases you. Go nuts.

The winner gets glory (their design on all the camp shirts) a camp shirt (whether or not the winner is a camper) and a $100.00 gift certificate for Blue Moon Fiber Arts.

Please email us your entry at as a jpeg (You can send a low resolution version, we’ll ask finalists for the high resolution ones so we can see if they’re okay for printing) before March 10th. We’ll choose some finalists, put them up on The Blue Moon Blog (here), everyone will vote before March 12th, and then the winner will be announced on March 14th.

We can’t wait to see what everyone comes up with, because we know just how talented knitters are!

In the meantime… or life before Camp Cast Away, we have two of our favourite shows coming up.

Madrona Fiber Arts Winter Retreat, Thursday February 16th through Sunday February 19th.

Please do come by and say hello, Deb Accuardi, Sam Roshak and Jen Clodious and myself, we’d love to see you. Bring your socks to show off. We love to see any of your hand-knit-wear, but the socks, they especially float our boats.

The following week is Stitches West, Thursday February 23rd through Sunday February 26th. The lovely Debbi Stone aka “Cockeyed the sockateer” and “Stitches of Your Life” designer will be there with some of our favourite knitters: Leianne Stinton, Carrie Sullivan and Leslie Wong. They would also love to see your hand-knit-wear, including socks in progress or socks on feet.

See… a whole lot of goings on here where the moon is blue.

Those of you who’ve been asking about when the new colours going up, I promise we will be doing that around the 24th. Back to back show prep like this is a megaton of dyework and bundling and… .  We want to make sure we have all that out the door before we put up the new colours, so we can focus all our attention on new and returning colourways!

I think that about covers it for now. Back to the dye pots!