So, we should have all sent out packages out.

Unfortunately there has been a lot of problems with missing emails, I assume this is due to spam filters. So we are adding some things to the next swap that will hopefully prevent this.

Being late with a package or something isn’t a big deal, but really by now everyone should have contacted their pals.  Please email me and let me know if you still haven’t heard from your pal. We will personally send out a package to you if necessary.

The next swap will be a sock swap. Thanks to the marvelous Donyale, a new regular writer, we may doing this swap this way. The swappers will be matched by shoe size/ sock size desired. So if you wanted to make a sock for your husband, or kids, then you might be able to be matched with someone else who wanted to do the same. Or it would be your sock size, if you wanted to swap socks for yourself.

Then the two pals would exchange yarns, so if Donyale was my pal, then she would send me enough yarn for her socks, and I would send her yarn for my socks. Then we would each make the socks in the size needed, and send them back. The knitter chooses whatever pattern they want to knit the socks in. So it should be very very fun.

I had wanted to do it differently, I wanted to have one knitter make one sock, and the pal make it’s mate. So you would each make one sock, then exchange for a pair. Donyale thought there might be some trouble with gauge and socks being too big or too little. However, since we could all measure our own feet, and make the matches by foot size, then they could be tried on. The other way we could around this would be to make our own sock first, then mail it off to our pals, with the yarn for the second sock. Then we could use the sock made by our pals as a guide to get a good fit. Then we would send the pair back after we completed our sock.

So what do you guys think, are you up for the challenge? We may do both swaps, one for the easier swap of making a pair of socks and exchanging, and another one where you each make one sock. That would be for more advanced/persistent sock knitters lol. This swap will be a very serious swap that will require the participants to FINISH everything and participate fully.

So do you guys think we should do both options or just one? Which would you like to do?