It was quite a start to STITCHES West 2008. The Opening Day presentation, featuring sock designers extraordinaire Cat Bordhi, Lucy Neatby, and Sandi Rosner was a great event all by itself. But the attendees had been warned to stay tuned for an announcement at the end of the program.
Alexis Xenakis, publisher of Knitter’s Magazine, XRX Books, and co-founder of STITCHES Events, took the stage and thanked the very talented Opening Day presenters. Then he paused before speaking again. “Before you all go to lunch,” he addressed the crowd, “I have just one more thing I wanted to talk to you about...”
Over the next few minutes, Alexis laid out a plan for the largest sock contest that the knitting and crochet world had ever seen.
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•26 amatuer categories
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•$21,000 in prize money
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•a $6000 grand prize
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•and the chance to be published in Knitter’s Magazine and in a new book from XRX Books
Several of the co-sponsors were in the crowd, so Alexis asked them up on-stage to say a few words about the contest. Karin Skacel from Skacel Collection, Jonelle Raffino from South West Trading Company, Jean Lux from Universal Yarn, Diana McKay & Leslie Taylor from Mountain Colors, Terry Wright from Cherry Tree Hill Yarn, and Knitter’s Magazine editor Rick Mondragon all welcomed the knitting and crochet community to ‘show us what you’ve got.’
Printed brochures of the official rules, categories, and entry form were given to the Opening Day attendees first at the Opening Day lunch. They were also given out by the attending Think Outside The SOX sponsors and participating SOX HOT SPOTS in the STITCHES Market over the weekend.
The good news is that you didn’t have to be there to participate. The official rules, categories, and entry form for the Think Outside The SOX contest is available on the Rules and Categories page of this website.
Please join us! You could be the next great sock designer! And you could also win $6000 if you can Think Outside The SOX!
The Think Outside The SOX contest begins at STITCHES West 2008
2/21/08
