Brett KosinskiMan getting back into the swing of this pattern was FUN (folks following me know I’ve made these before) but I think I’m finally on a roll…
So first, a belated apology to my supporters as this post is coming a full week since the event, but in short: great success! But there’s certainly plenty more to say about this year’s tour.
#cycling #TourAlbertaForCancer: https://b-ark.ca/2025/07/27/tour-alberta-success.html
#cycling #TourAlbertaForCancer: https://b-ark.ca/2025/07/27/tour-alberta-success.html
LenoreoMy #tourAlbertaForCancer team , The Hue Crew, is in a contest for best custom cycling kit if anyone wants to vote! Contest ends tomorrow (the 9th), so boosts appreciated!
https://support.touralbertaforcancer.ca/fundraiser/5660808/updates/6499835
#votesAppreciated #fundraisingForCancer #AlbertaCancerFoundation
Well that sure was fast. Just a few days ago I was still shy of 75% of my $2,500 fundraising goal for the 2025 Tour Alberta for Cancer, but thanks to a sudden rush of new donors I’ve hit that milestone!: https://b-ark.ca/2025/06/24/well-that-was-fast.html
We did it!
For the fourth year in a row I’m excited to say I’ve hit my minimum fundraising goal for this year’s Tour campaign! After taking Lenore’s advice and doing some targeted outreach to folks in my network, I saw a sudden rush of donations–nearly $1,000 in the last three days!–that pushed me over the top and beyond. But the work doesn’t stop there! As relieved as I am to have reached the minimum to qualify for the ride, I’m equally excited to see how many more dollars I can pull in for the ACF in these final few weeks before the event.
Better late than never, right? Were you disappointed when you didn’t win a pair of hand knitted socks last year by donating to my Tour Alberta for Cancer fundraising campaign? Well now you have another chance! Support my efforts to raise money for the ACF and earn a chance to own a pair of socks made by yours truly!
Donate Here: https://support.touralbertaforcancer.ca/fundraiser/5660060
Or follow the link to the post to learn more!
#TourAlbertaForCancer #knitting #charity: https://b-ark.ca/2025/06/22/tour-alberta-raffle.html
It's a beautiful day for a #trainingride in my #startrektng #cyclingkit from #bicyclebooth
#67daysleft #lotsoftimetodonate #touralbertaforcancer #winlenorecrafts #motivateher #mostimportantly #helpherbeatbrett
22C, 7.88 km in half an hour, so grateful for the little bit of electric assist... and that my hubby rebuilt the deck so I can desweat in my awesome sunroom
All righty!! It's May 1st, and I finally got off my butt and got my fundraiser page ready to go!! I'm going to try to get over myself, and spam the crap out of all of you for donations, because this is SO important to me, and I need all the encouragement I can get. *snort*
The final pair of 2024 Tour Alberta for Cancer socks. Another rainbow yarn but this time with a simple wavy motif and some cables I threw in for fun.
#Knitting #FinishedObject #FallFinishAlong #TourAlbertaForCancer (https://b-ark.ca/eO4Ycg)
#Knitting #FinishedObject #FallFinishAlong #TourAlbertaForCancer (https://b-ark.ca/eO4Ycg)
Kimberly’s Socks
The original version of this pattern has the motif only done up on the front of the sock, but never one to follow directions, I decided to mix things up a bit and rework things a little. To wrap the pattern around the leg, I added a pair of 2x2 cables along each side and then repeated the motif on front and back. To create some visual continuity, I also ran one of the cables on each side along the foot and the gusset as a border between the motif on the top and the heel stitch on the bottom. Then I finished with a twisted stitch rib as I like the way it stands out. But the real fun was in switching away from dpns for this piece. I began by experimenting with magic loop during the gauge swatch and reaffirmed that, yes, I don’t like it. At all. At the suggestion of a helpful knitter on Mastodon, I then tried knitting in the round on two circulars and immediately fell in love! From now on I’m definitely forgoing the dpns and working on two circs when knitting up socks.
I’ve posted about these a lot so apologies if you’ve seen them before. FO post number two for the Tour socks, this time some colourwork!
#Knitting #FinishedObject #FallFinishAlong #TourAlbertaForCancer (https://b-ark.ca/GcwkkQ)
#Knitting #FinishedObject #FallFinishAlong #TourAlbertaForCancer (https://b-ark.ca/GcwkkQ)
Amy’s Tour Socks
These socks were a bit of an adventure. What with the career break and all, I wasn’t sure I wanted to spend money on a pattern, so instead I decided to visually copy the basic motif in this design and then work it up into my typical socks, including a slip stitch sole and a flap heel. This required a fair bit of on-the-fly design work on my part, with things first going wrong in the stripes on the gusset, which required at least two rework attempts before I got them right (first I got the colour alternation wrong, and then I realized I wanted a navy line separating the motif from the gusset). Once the heel flap was complete I then had to work back into the round on the leg, and in my first attempt, I had way too much of a solid navy border between the heel and the motif, which I had to rip out and rework. The final challenge was in the leg motif itself. Having not designed any colourwork in the round, I pictured the repeats as tiling side-by-side rather than spiralling up. That is, it didn’t occur to me that row 1 ends where row 2 starts, row 2 ends where row 3 starts, and so forth. As a result, the motif as I’d designed it simply didn’t work. So of course I had to then rip that out and redesign it to make it work in the round. Meanwhile, it had been years since I’d done stranded knitting, so much of the initial knitting involved re-learning how to carry yarn and wrap stitches. Truly it was a journey. But in the end it was definitely worth it!