Giveaway: Inkadinkado Clear Set

image by Heather Holbrook

What do you say, lets have a giveaway!! I’ve got a beautiful clear stamp set from Inkadinkado called Flower Garden I’d love to give away to one of you!

Let me say that I LOVE clear stamps! I’ve been stamping for a long time and I feel like clear stamps have really changed the way I stamp, I love to be able to see exactly where I’m stamping and I’ve accumulated *alot* of stamps over the years so storage is a big issue for me and clear stamps take up so much less space than wood mounted stamps.

So now I’d like to hear your thoughts about clear stamps, do you love them? hate them? never tried them, do you have a tip for using or cleaning clear stamps? Leave a comment about clear stamps here on this post, you’ve got from now until Sunday Aug. 9th at midnight EST, please one comment per person. I’ll randomly draw a winner for the stamp set and announce the winner on Monday Aug 10th. If you win I’ll contact you via e-mail to get your mailing address.

PS- If you’ve never posted a comment here it will have to be approved before it shows up, so if you don’t see it right away don’t worry it will be approved and you’ll be entered in the drawing.

Good luck!!

-Heather

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You probably know by now if you’re a regular reader (and if you’re not, welcome!) that I love a knitting pattern that’s a little silly or a little different from the usual. Classic patterns are great, too, but sometimes you just want to make something with a bit of whimsy. And when it’s super functional, too, that’s even better.

That’s the case with the Bananen-Socken pattern from Susanne Shahin. These banana socks are one of those patterns no one seems to be totally sure where it came from, and this free pattern on Ravelry explains how she makes them based on how she learned it.

It’s a sock that’s curved and when not on a foot it looks rather like a banana. There’s no heel, and you can use whatever number of stitches you need to make it fit your foot. If you’ve knit enough socks to know how many stitches you like you can just use that number, or the pattern notes include sizing charts to help. (It needs to be multiples of 2 for the ribbing.)

After working a traditional cuff, the body is made with ribbing on the back and welts (or what the pattern calls horizontal ribbing) on the front, which is what gives it the curved shape. There’s no heel, but there is toe shaping, but for the leg and the foot you just keep working the same pattern as long as you like.

I’m a little skeptical about how these socks will feel with ribbing on the bottom of the foot, but I’m definitely intrigued and will probably give them a try.

The pattern notes are available on Ravelry in English, German, French, Italian and Spanish. If you head to the pattern page you can see a photo of what it looks like on a foot, and it just looks like a normal sock.

Have you ever knit banana socks or do you want to now? I’d love to hear your thoughts!

[Photo: Susanne Shahin]

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