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Vanilla doesn't mean boring!

This year we polled our Socktober participants for their favorite sock patterns to create a crowd-sourced list from real knitters and crocheters in our Goat community! 

This is the first in a series of blog posts on different “flavors” of favorite sock patterns, starting with good old reliable vanilla, knit top-down (or cuff to toe).

Raise your hand if you’ve watched 20 tutorials about the tubular cast-on and you still don’t get it! — Yep, we can relate.

We know it’s popular, we know it’s pretty, but the tubular cast-on is just so darn fiddly. Some of us have tried, failed, and then opted to ignore pattern directions that call for tubular cast-on and just use the long-tail cast-on instead. 

Until now!

Have you ever used a #$%#&!!! pattern and gotten super frustrated? It’s happened to all of us. 

You download the pattern and cast on, only to realize it’s poorly translated or oddly formatted, or you come across an error like an inverted chart.

Most of us would rather be knitting than deciphering a poorly written pattern...

Remember Glamour Shots at the mall? (If you have no idea what this is, check out some of these examples.)  Your finished objects (FOs) need Glamour Shots too. Skip the hairspray, but make your FO the star of the show....