The Socktopus Sock Club’s 2010 incarnation is the Knit Love Club.  It has a limited membership which will be allotted by ballot.  See here to enter the ballot.

I’m making some changes to the club. This year was a little less smooth than I would have liked.  Part of it has to do with being a one woman operation trying to juggle 2 clubs, an online shop and a bricks and mortar shop, and working with similar one or two people businesses for both the yarn and the pattern.

So I am reworking the club to make it run better and also so I can spend more time with it.  Paring back down to essentials, next year I am only going to concentrate on one club – and that will be the 2010 Knit Love Club.  These are the current parameters of the Knit Love Club (I’m still working on them so they may change):

1) Designs. These will be Alice exclusives.  Yup yours truly is going to be sending out her design babies to you.  I may possibly have one or two guest designers.  What this means for you is I can tailor the club socks to your skill set and make them a little more modular and progressive in terms of learning.

2) Colourways. I get to choose them all! This means I can choose and arrange for all the six club yarns in advance and don’t need to juggle around additional schedules.  It means I can make sure that there is a good mix of solids semi solids and variegated. It also means you can tell me what you hate and I will see what I can do to avoid using it!

3) Now this is still under consultation.  Knit Love 2010 is going to primarily a sock club.  I love them socks and they are one of the best small projects you could dream of.  But I am thinking – especially the way I knit with a gazillion wips on the go to cater to my every mood- that perhaps it might be good to add a little bit of spice and variety to the club?  I want to still concentrate on yarns that are hard to find in the UK. But I also want to show case the glorious dyers we have here on home soil.  So -I was thinking of adding some lace to the mix. A couple bonus projects using local dyers.  A lace shawl? A scarf? Colourwork mittens?

4) Patterns will be pdf downloads for the club kits which saves on those cardboard envelopes. But at the end of the club members will receive a yearbook – a bound book (in technicolour!) of the year’s patterns, and member pages.

5) Finally – no more bells & whistles.  They are fun but I always worry people won’t like them and while some may love them others may not.  Maybe a club bag instead…