Slytherin Sock Syndicate

Welcome to Day 1, everyone!   We have two sock options this year.  One will be a colorwork sock similar to previous years.  The second will be an alternate pattern to come very soon.  Stay tuned! First in our tour of the stars is the Draco constellation.  Draco, known as the dragon, is one of the constellations of the 2nd-century Greek philosopher Ptolemy.  It's considered one of the modern 88 constellations as well.  It sits in the northern sky close to the big and little dippers. Prompt 24 rounds on sock A Knit this CHART with colors of your choosing according to your size. For toe-up socks, start at the bottom right at 1.  For cuff-down socks, start at the top left at 1.  The gray stitches are omitted for the 68-st sock and included for the 72-st sock.  The pattern was written with white, black, and green in mind, but it would also look great in many other combinations.  Feel free to change up anything you see and share it ...

  For those of you that want to get your cuff/toes done ahead of the 1st - here are the instructions Starting instructions for toe up or cuff down. This year we will be doing colourwork again. You can choose to knit these from the toe or cuff, or one of each. We hope you have fun creating these unique socks! Reminder you do not have to do the colourwork, you can just do the stripes in one of the suggested colours each day, you could also choose to add a cable like we did a few years ago. there are no MKAL police here, we want you to have fun. Toe-Up Using either of your house colours or a good neutral, cast on 16 sts using Judy’s magic cast on (or preferred method for toe up) divide onto two needles (8 sts each). knit one round. inc round k1 m1r knit til last stitch on left needle m1l k1 x2. Repeat the increase round for 3 more rows then repeat it every other round until you have at least 60 sts. Check if it seems tight go up in 4st increments until it feels comfortable. If you int...

  Welcome to the 2023 Slytherin Sock Syndicate Advent Sock Our team is busy getting ready for December and in the meantime we wanted to give you a few bits and pieces. Clues aka sections will be released daily here on the Blog from the 1-24th December our team are in different parts of the world so we ask for patience if it takes a little longer to go up, but we're hoping to have them up as early in the day as possible. Links will be provided in the sock syndicate's Ravelry thread on each day as well, there is also the best place to ask questions, get help and chat with others. The socks can be knit either toe up or cuff down , it's up to you, they also end up long, if you have smaller feet you may decide to stop earlier, it's up to you, there are no hard and fast rules, one of our previous participants made them into fingerless gloves instead, we love the creativity, there is no wrong way to participate in this MKAL. We  are looking forward to this years fun as we kni...

Day 24 - 1 row on Sock A Dactylomancy In modern dactylomancy, a ring is suspended like a pendulum above a surface that is marked with letters or symbols.  The direction of the swing indicates which symbols are to be consulted, or which letters are to be formed into a message, in response to a specific question.  Another form follows a similar pattern as Seance table-rapping.  In it a ring is suspended from a tumblers so it may touch the sides of swung.  The code is agreed upon ahead of time (e.g. 1 for yes, 2 for no).  A question is posed and the number of times the ring strikes the tumbler is interpreted as being the answer. PROMPT Have your own dactylomancy session.  Using either type of dactylomancy mentioned above, select a color to knit your stripe.  For example, place small pieces of paper on a table with color names and set up your own ring pendulum.   Or, using your pendulum and tumbler, ask if you should use a specific color.   Ask u...

Botanomancy - 2 Rounds on Sock B Today we are studying Botanomancy. Botanomancy is the study of smoke from burning certain plants or herbs and both the fire and the smoke is used together for divination purposes. Of course most of us will have heard of the use of sage in smudging rituals of the indigenous americans (and the over harvesting of white sage that the popularity of the ritual has caused). Sage is often used in this form of divination and there are many varieties of Sage (Salvia). Using this  google search  pick the colour of a leaf or sage flower that appeals to you and knit the last two rows on the  CHART  found here

Daphnomancy - 3 Rounds on Sock B Today we are studying daphnomancy. Daphnomancy is a form of pyromancy. According to the practice, the louder the crackles, the better the omens. If crackles were absent, the prognostic was bleak. A bright fire burning the leaves was also favorable, but if it smoldered and died out, the outlook was gloomy. History tells us, daphnomancy originated in ancient Rome. There was once a sacred grove of laurel trees. These laurel trees were planted at the grove by each Roman emperor when they ascended to the throne. Sadly the sacred grove withered and died in 68 AD. As you can imagine, this was a bad sign for the Roman Empire. Interestingly that is the same year emperor Nero died ending the long line of Caesars. More recently the practice of burning laurel leaves is associated with stress and anxiety relief. Some practitioners will write aspects and emotions they wish to banish on the leaf before they burn it. For today’s  3 rows of the  chart  for...

Day 21 Papyromancy--4 rounds on sock A Prompt: Papyromancy is a way of divination through folding paper. Some say a true papyromancer can crumple up any piece of paper, unfold it, and predict the future from the creased lines reading the creased paper the way that a palm reader would read a person's palm. Another form of papyromancy is done by folding an illustrated piece of paper and interpreting the resulting image. For today's stripe, we will be using an origami fortune teller, or cootie-catcher to determine the colours for this chart Follow this link to use the digital cootie-catcher Steps: 1. Select the Slideshow button in the top right corner to start 2. Choose a number between 1-6 3. Click the background the number of times you chose  4. Click one of the colours you see in the centre of the screen 5. Press the ESC button to stop the cootie-catcher Now you have the colour for the chart!  You can play again, or choose a neutral background colour.