I’m joining in with my first sock challenge on Ravelry. It’s to make lace socks and that is on my to-do list this year, so I thought it was prefect timing!
My Ravelry page. It’s an oddly written pattern with lots of mistakes, but not on the 10 row lace pattern, but I can figure the rest out. I liking the way the yarn is looking too, it’s Crystal Palace Panda Wool.
Oooohhh! 
Very pretty. What’s a sock challenge? I’m Ravelry challenged.
I’m not sure if it’s the same challenge, but I joined a group on Ravelry last night called (oh, man, now I can’t remember the group name!) well, anyway, the gist of it is to try and knit a pair of socks a month in 2014. No pressure, but there are prizes, like people donate yarn, and I think the grand prize is a pair of socks knit just for the winner by the leader of the group, the Sox Therapist. This month’s challenge is to make a pair that is: already a work in progress, uses a stitch or technique that is new, or uses stash yarn. I had already started a pair, so, since I qualified for one of the categories, I thought I would join.
Cool! I joined a sock challenge, too, but I think it’s a different group. Your lace looks great! So far I can’t make both lace and a sock at the same time, so I settled for a simple pattern, with a pretty variegated yarn I got on Etsy.
Could you post a link?
Oh that’s so pretty!
I’d love to join a knitting challenge, but I’ve got so many things to make, I don’t think I’d have time. But I’d love to see what y’all come up with!
That is going to be a handsome pair of socks!
Judy
Sock looks terrific! The color is very pretty and the variegations work well in the pattern. These are going to be a beautiful pair.
I’m in a group called Sock Knitter Anonymous where it’s OK to be a sock addict and stash sock yarn! They have a challenge set every month, and you have the choice of two techniques or two featured designers to pick from. You can never make plain socks or simple ribbed socks, they don’t count. It’s called Sockdown! So for January, you have to do a post for your Cast On, you can do a progress post if you want and then you do a Bind Off post showing your finished socks. To participate for January you have to post a Cast On post before midnight on Jan 31st, but you actually have two months to complete your project, and your BO post has to be made before midnight on Feb 28th.
There are prizes too for random participants who completed all the criteria, and as they’re random you don’t have to worry about not being the fastest knitter or not making the most complicated pattern.
I want to make more socks this year, I only made 4 pairs in 2013, which for a self confessed sock addict is appalling! I thought the challenge would help me on my way and teach me some new things too.
This is Jinx’s group: 12 Socks
It looks wonderful and love the yarn. I have a book called Sensational Socks and she put patterns in the back and they are fun to just pick and knit into socks. I think once you can knit a sock, you can pretty much put any pattern on them without having the actual sock pattern. WTG, nice job! (Don’t you wonder though when they make all the mistakes how their finished product came out ok???) 
The pattern is right in the places that really matter (like the pattern!), and if you’ve knitted socks before you can quite easily interpret the “instructions” for the heel and other parts, but if you were using this pattern to knit your very first pair you’d be in serious trouble!
It’s odd little things like in the info section it tells you the pattern is written for dpns, but a bit further down it says how easy it is to modify the pattern so you can use dpn’s! The heel info may not be wrong but it’s very confusingly written… and then after the gusset it goes straight in to the toe! Where’s the foot??! It took me about five reads to realise that the foot instruction is one tiny sentence bundled in with the gusset. :??
That said, the lace section is well written and easy to follow and that’s the bit I needed to be good!
I’m working on a pair of toe-ups. I wonder how that lace would look upside down on the sock top. What’cha think?
Mighty fine GG!
The only caveat is that it’s worked over multiples of 10, it had me decrease from 64 to 60 stitches on a set up round before starting on the lace. So make sure you have the right number of stitches available.
I’ve just got the toes done so far, I’ve got 44 sts in sport weight so that means I’d add 6. It might work. I’ll have a while to think about it. Thanks!
Love, love, love them, the colors, the lace. Very nice.
When the pattern had me decrease 4 stitches before beginning the lace, the explanation was that lace knits up looser than normal knitting, so you might want to consider going down to 40 stitches and not up to 50.
Thanks!
Perfect pairing of yarn and pattern stitch! Love the colorway. It’s playing real nice with the pattern stitch! Great work!