what is this all about, anyway?

who is maggie?

My dear friend's daughter. I've watched her grow up and become a beautiful, talented, intelligent, poised young woman. She's got plans, dreams, and a way to make it all happen. But fate has its way of screwing with all this stuff.

Maggie has become International Medical Woman of Mystery. The official diagnosis is histiocytosis. The prognosis is good, but there is a long, hard path ahead, with ups and downs: chemo and all its side effects, multiple extended MRIs, bone scans, pain, hospitalizations, etc.

She's only seventeen.

At this age, she should be worried about, well, dating. College. SATs. As it stands now, she's missing all of that, and having to put her well-crafted plans on hold.

i need your help.

As I sit here, feeling helpless at being unable to do anything for her and her family from a distance, it occurred to me that there is one thing I could do.

I can knit. You see, Maggie has a weakness: socks.

Socks. All kinds of socks. But especially hand-knitted socks. The wackier, the better. All colors. All styles. Hell, they don't even match most of the time. And this is where you come in.

In celebration of Socktoberfest, I am asking for you to knit a pair of socks for Maggie. They don't have to match, they don't have to meet any parameter other than size. Any fiber, any color, any style. The creative side is totally up to you.

The Sockin' will start on October 1, and end November 30th. Maggie is a US 8.5/9 (Eur 39-40).

I'll be the collection and forwarding point, and I'm hosting this knit-a-long here, on this page. And as a reward for your hard work and dedication, there will be prizes for participating! Yarny goodness, among other things. No cars or anything illegal, but something fun to thank you.

and look, buttons!

          

Feel free to snag a button for your site. (Just please don't snag my bandwidth with it.)

so hop to it!

Leave a comment on this site if you're going to participate, or email me at kemtee AT mindspring DOT com. I'll add you to a list of participants and automatically enter you into the random drawings. Send me a pair of socks (mailing info on demand) and there's another entry.

questions? comments?

Feel free to ask. And oh… thank you, from the bottom of my heart. Hell, from the top, too.