More Sock Club updates!

We had two more people sign up for the Rock Your Socks Off club this week (SQUEE!) which is wonderful. I’ve decided on what the first goodie will be, I’m very excited about it. It’s not candy, or tchotskies or anything silly like that. I’m not going to say what it is, but they will be both useful and cool. The poll for who you guys want to see as the first band is running pretty close. The Smashing Pumpkins are currently winning by just one vote followed closely by the White Stripes and the Killers. I already have color ways planned for each of these bands, but I must say the Smashing Pumpkins have long been a favorite band of mine (even though Billy Corgan and I had to break up in 2007 because of a lackluster performance where he lost his freaking mind and played the entire Machina album and completely skipped over anything from Gish-Mellon Collie. NOT COOL BILLY!) Anyways, sorry for the mini rant. I would be thrilled to be able to do a Smashing Pumpkins sock yarn. Be aware though I do not recognize the current incarnation of the band as neither D’Arcy nor James Iha is present and Billy keeps letting Jimmy Chamberlain play the guitar. (Again, NOT COOL.) So there will be no Zeitgeist era yarns from me, though you may see the single from that album on the set list simply because I do like that particular song, but the rest of that album is dead to me.

Okay, sorry again. Seriously, the Pumpkins rant is over now. I apologize, rock n’ roll is a topic close to my heart, and the Pumpkins sit at the very center of that love. I get a bit riled up.

Color ways I am considering for Smashing Pumpkins yarn:

• Cherub Rock
• To Forgive
• Porcelina of the Vast Oceans
• An Ode to No One
• We Only Come Out at Night
• Siva
• Perfect
• Starla
• Bullet with Butterfly Wings
• 1979
• Today

There are so many great ones. I could do the entire Mellon Collie and the Infinate Sadness album song by song, but I have a feeling we’d lose some people if I did that. I want to resist the urge to do only the singles or popular songs, I think most bands have really great songs that aren’t radio singles. I will try to keep my music snob in check though and try not to do the really out there ones. (So maybe I should take An Ode to No One, To Forgive and We Only Come Out at Night off that list…)

I have a special affinity for 1979 and Perfect because of the music videos that go with them. Bullet with Butterfly Wings and Today are probably some of the most recognizable as Pumpkins songs, but To Forgive is one that got me through a lot of morose teen age angst. I’d also love to do ‘Beautiful’ from Mellon Collie, because that’s one that I want played at my wedding and/or funeral.

Well I’ve got a little time before I have to figure out a specific color way. Maybe I’ll put all of those in a hat and let my boyfriend pick which one we do.

In other news the people who purchased Phat Fiber boxes are starting to get them in the mail and so far the response from people has been good. I’m looking forward to putting together my samples for February. I’ve already dyed the yarn, I’ll be contributing samples of my merino sock base which is soft and squishy in February-esque colors. I’ll also be contributing some of my hand made stitch markers as well. I have another question for my readers though, if you were to receive a sample of something on a ‘try before you buy’ basis would just enough to see the colors and feel the yarn be enough or would it be better that it’s enough to knit up a 4×4 swatch so you can see how the stitches look? And also what would it take to turn that sample size into a full sized sale for you? Are you looking for softness? Color selection? Type of fiber (wool, cotton, bamboo, etc.)? 

I’ve got great reactions to the samples I sent in, but so far none of those samples have turned into sales yet, so I want to be sure that the samples I’m sending out are effective enough to inspire people to want to buy the full sized version. I’m also being super impatient, boxes got to people just in the last two days, I’m sure they’re so overwhelmed by the box of awesomeness that they haven’t had a chance to fully explore everything they got yet.

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