Think Outside The SOX Contest Rules & Categories

"Think Outside the Socks" Contest Overview

Come in for the FREE  contest overview to get a detailed explanation of how the contest works and to pick up entry forms and rules.

Here is some quick info on some areas of the contest:

Use your favorite sock yarn and win more! The Think Outside the SOX co-sponsors have devised  amateur categories to stimulate your creativity. Each category will be judged by the sponsoring company, and each winner will be awarded a $500 prize.

South West Trading Company

Unleash the Creativity: Forget how it should look—we want you to dream in technicolor, live wild, and break the rules! Show us what you can do with a sock when there are no boundaries. Design a sock using any technique, style, or idea in one color or many. Unleash YOUR creativity with Tofutsies sock yarn.

SOX Forever: Design a sock that excites us, motivates us, and makes us want to run for our needles! We’re passionate knitters & crocheters, and we want to see what you can do with our beloved sock yarn, Tofutsies. We’ll pick our favorite, a sock that we just can’t resist.

Universal Yarn, Inc.

Knitting in Colors: Use at least two colors of Pace or Pace Step in any colorwork technique (Fair Isle knitting, Intarsia knitting, Armenian knitting, etc.) or a combination of techniques together with any stitch pattern.

Most Masculine:  Use any Ditto color or combination of colors to make socks that are a direct response to the relationship between the structure of a man’s foot and the environment around it.

Most Technical: Use any Fibra Natura Yummy color or combination of colors for a pair of technically innovative socks. We’re looking for the most innovative cast-on, heel-shaping, and toe-shaping techniques and the most innovative stitch pattern to create a textured and/or lacy effect.

Most Avant-Garde: Your Most Avant-Garde Socks will stretch the boundaries of the idea of a sock. Use any Marathon Socks color or a combination of colors, but be sure to change the existing pattern the yarn creates.

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Here are some sponsored non-yarn-specific categories that we also hope you’ll enjoy. Each of these categories will be judged by Cat Bordhi, Lucy Neatby, Sandi Rosner, and the Knitter’s Magazine editorial team. And each winner will be awarded a $500 prize.

Knitter’s Magazine

Inspired By Knitter’s Magazine: Show us how Knitter’s Magazine has inspired you. Make a pair of socks based on some project and/or technique you’ve seen in Knitter’s Magazine. Find your favorite design and sock it to us.

From Sheep to SOX: Spin your favorite fiber into your own unique sock yarn and then turn that yarn into a pair of socks with a twist.

KnitU.com

Best in the Universe: Members of KnitU, this one’s for you only. We’re looking for the most universal Outside the SOX socks—innovative, but also knittable/crochetable, understandable, and adaptable—a sock that will be the talk of KnitU.

STITCHES Knitting Expos

Under 18: You are not yet 18, today’s young knitter/crocheter who will be tomorrow’s expert. Show us socks that make YOU want to wear them.

XRX Books

XMAS SOX: This is the only category where one sock is fine—no need to make a pair. You decide what would be the ideal stocking for Santa to fill.

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