Winning Socks

Whoever wants to tell a variety of stories ought to have a variety of beginnings, and speak so intelligently that people will enjoy listening.
-Marie de France

There were so many fabulous responses to my little Socktoberfest sock contest (sparked largely, I will confess, by a combination of my overflowing stash and my complete laziness in finding a new-and-exciting pattern), that I decided to compile them all into a list for the other similarly burdened. (Yes, our lives are hard. So much yarn. So many great patterns to knit. How do we ever cope?)

Twists and Turns
So, you all think I really like cables, don't you?

• Cablenet from Knitty (this was suggested twice!)
  
• Bayerische by Eunny
• River Rapids at Sockbug
• Broken Cable Rib socks as pictured at Clementine's Shoes
• More Fun Than Cables at Stitches of Violet (with bonus points for being posted on my birthday)
• Baby Cable Rib from Sensational Knitted Socks
• Celtic Braid Socks at TheKnitter.com
• Widdershins from Knitty
  

Lovin' Lace

• Mock Croc Socks at KnitPicks
• Baulderdaire from Knitty
  
• Embossed Leaves from Interweave Knits, Winter 2005
  
• Giotto Socks at My Fashionable Life
• Pomatomus from Knitty
• Dublin Bay Socks
  
• Clementine's Baltic Socks
  
• Waving Lace from Interweave Knits, Spring 2004 (good thing I organized my knitting magazines the other day, isn't it?) - this one was mentioned twice as well
  
• Cascading Leaves from the Townsend KAL on Yahoo
• Anastasia from Pepperknit
• Elfine Socks from Autoscopia
• Falling Leaves from Knitty (bonus points because I just realized that I knit with this designer in San Diego)
• Happy Socks from MagKnits
• Milanese Lace Socks, also from MagKnits

Texture Time

• Here There Be Dragon Socks at The Keyboard Biologist Knits
• Wyvern by Marnie MacLean
• Chevron Socks from Sensational Knitted Socks (can you believe that I don't own this book? there must be something wrong with me)
• RPM Socks from Knitty
  
• Thuja from Knitty
• Matt's Fixation Socks (but, no, Christine, I'm not knitting man socks!)

And What's Wrong With a Little Color?

• Bazaar Socks in Interweave (these are so on the list for all those leftovers I have!)
  

Here's the Claudia's Handpainted in "Just Plum" going to our lucky winner:
And, of course, The Lucky Winner Herself:

Rosi G. with Falling Leaves, who clearly has her pulse on the finger of the sock-knitting cyber world (did you see all those entries?).

While a number of the socks on the list above are definitely making it onto the "to knit" list (Leah and Margene are onto something with Cablenet - it is so "me"), Falling Leaves is speaking to my wistfulfulness at my lack of a New England autumn, and I have some lovely Koigu in greens with red, yellow, and brown accents. It's just meant to be.