Nessie Expedition

About the Knit Along

Are you ready to set sail on the U.S.S Sock Knitter? The Nessie Expedition is an adventure filled knit and seek mystery knit along in the same style Hunting Sasquatch, created and hosted by Lattes & Llamas. This is a colorwork sock project, which was delivered in four parts:

~March 30th – Clue 1: We’re setting sail with sock one on our needles. – Released! View our post about it here.
~April 6th – Clue 2: Our first port of call where we’ll start the second half of sock one. – Released! View our post about it here.
~April 20th – Clue 3: Shore leave to resupply and cast on the second sock. – Released! View our post about it here.
~April 27th – Clue 4: Anchors down in Loch Ness as we knit the rest of sock two with our final Nessie sighting. – Released! View our post about it here.

Since the MKAL has concluded, you will not receive the pattern in four parts. The full pattern will be sent to you (see details below) when we process your order to ship.

Important Pattern Information

When we process your order to ship, the completed pattern will be emailed to you unless you provide a Ravelry user name in the “Order Notes,” which will be located in the billing/shipping address section at check out. If you provide a Ravelry user name, the pattern will be added to your Ravelry library.

 

About the Kit

The Nessie Expedition kits – or “tickets” if you’re really vibing on the them – come with everything you’ll need in order to knit the socks, excluding the knitting needles:

~ Two specially dyed, 50 gram Coffee Cakes only available in this kit

~ One skein of Vacation Yarn in Baskerville

~ Two beaded stitch markers that match your yarn

~ One super sweet project bag for your knitting luggage

~ A PDF of the pattern (see pattern information above)

 

Prepare for the Expedition

1. Purchase the Nessie Expedition kit to get everything you’ll need for your adventure. The last day to order that is guaranteed to ship before the start of the MKAL is March 23, 2018.
2. Meet the crew and other passengers aboard the U.S.S. Sock Knitter on the Lattes & Llamas Ravelry forum.
3. Download the Nessie Expedition Project Sheet from the inaugural post to get started on your gauge swatch and learn how to do two-handed yarn management for more efficient fair isles knitting.
4. Come back to the Lattes & Llamas blog on March 23rd for an even more in depth lesson on two-handed yarn management that will help you have cleaner floats, even over long stretches of just one color. You can view the post here and the follow up to it here.
5. Cast on and set sail March 30th when the first clue is released! View the post about it here.
6. Take a sneak peek inside the journal of Captain Columba, the captain of the U.S.S. Sock Knitter, here.

 

About the Yarn

While we try to keep the kits in stock and ready to ship, this luxurious yarn may be dyed to order. Depending on our current volume, it may take 3-10 business days to create your hand-dyed lovelies. Please note that sometimes colors and textures look different on your computer screen than they do in person. If we had the power to fix this, we’d probably be billionaires. And we’d totally still make yarn.

 

Content
Vacation: 75% Superwash Merino/ 25% Nylon
Coffee Cakes: 75% Superwash Merino/ 20% Nylon / 5% Stellina

 

Care
Machine Wash Gentle Cold, Dry Flat

 

Weight/Yardage
Vacation: 100 grams/ 463 yards
Coffee Cakes: 50 grams/ 217 yards per cake
200 grams/ 897 yards total

 

Gauge
7-8 sts = 1″ on US 0-2

 

Knitting Weight
Fingering

 

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