Sweeet!

Wow, talk about EPIC. Can this be topped?

Beyond AWESOME!!

VERY COOL!!!!

Stephanie, I have pictures of me and some Blue Rodeo members with my sock. I tried to send them to you but not sure how!! My sock in progress really enjoyed the show!

Stephanie, I have pictures of me and some Blue Rodeo members with my sock. I tried to send them to you but not sure how!! My sock in progress really enjoyed the show! I think all the guys must think I'm the Crazy Sock Lady now.

Some picture!

Where did they see the concert? Was it the MN State Fair? 'Cause that would be too perfect for words!

That is very, very cool.

OH EM GEE!!!!!

Oh so VERY cool!!!!!!

Whoa! OMG is right! Teh awesome! This totally rocks, in so many ways.

I LOVE it! I had 4th row seats at a Kiss concert back in the 80s. I like to blame them for my loss of hearing. :)

Holy crap! That is so coop I can hardly contain myself! I am literally squealing!

I think this is the ultimate sock pic!

AKKKKKKKK! Right on girls!

(I had a rock and roll all night thing going for a bit but it got way too gooffy in a hurry lol)

This is definitely the most awesome thing I'm going to see all week!! Thanks for sharing.

My favorite is when you had the old guy hold your sock at a party (or was it a concert?) and you started to explain the sock and he said "I know what the sock is."

Way, WAY too COOOOOL!!!! Way to go Amanda! We all knew that "Socks that Rock" was more than just a catch phrase!

That is fantastically awesome! :)

We weren't sure we were going to get the picture. Neither one of us is an actual hard core fan. Lindsay knows one of the band members personally and I was lucky enough to be a stand in when her number one(her husband)couldn't go. :) I've been SQUEEEE-ing all week. I thought it was SO cool, I'm glad I'm not the only one!

Epic Win!
KISS! Wow. seriously too cool...

Awwwwright! How cool is that?!!! Have a male nurse colleague who is an avid fan of KISS, and I'm looking forward to show him this picture on our nightshift tonight!

That is almost beyond cool!

Totally beyond epic cool! Nicely done ladies.

Totally beyond epic cool! Nicely done ladies.

Two of my favorite things: KISS and knitting!!!

Pretty darned amazing!!!

While I totally love this...how can you be *sure* it's actually Kiss? That makeup, after all.....oh, wait, I remember, didn't they say it wasn't makeup?

There you go!

Priceless. Tomorrow we want to know how they actually managed it!

Wow.

I don't have a picture, but I have a thank-you note. I sent President Obama a hat last Christmas, hand-knit by me from American-raised alpaca hand-spun by the owner of the alpaca ranch. I enclosed a letter, explaining that I thought his head looked cold when he was walking to the inauguration, with his very short hair and no hat. The thank-you I got was a form letter, but it was on White House stationery, and it looked like it was hand signed.

Dude. That's wild.

It makes me think of the "everyone has a mom" thing and that we all sort of want to embrace that when we get the chance. Knitting feels very mom-ish and nurtur-y (ya, I just make up words when it needs to happen). Way to lend some cool to socks, KISS; and way to lend some nurture to KISS, knitters.

Another reason to rock and roll all night.

And knit every day.

I bow down to Amanda's quick thinking - it was all her idea

it was a fantastic night. KISS knows how to put on a concert

off to send this post to KISS! {happy dance}

That photo is, indeed, Truly AwesomeSauce.

KISS trivia: The 8:00 pm grandstand show at the MN State Fair last Saturday was KISS, following the 5:00 - 7:00 pm grandstand live broadcast/show of Garrison Keillor and A Prairie Home Companion. Talk about contrasts...

Too cool!

Awesome! KISS is so cool with their fans.

Dude! That's AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh, wow, those are truly socks that ROCK! Congrats, ladies!

What a fabulous picture!! You should make it into a poster and hang it in your house!

@kmkat : NOW THAT is awesome! I'm a HUGE Garrison Keillor fan! I would have LOVED for it to be there!

My teenagers can't believe I went to a Kiss concert when I was in High School. Its not that I was a big fan but the ticket was available and so much cheaper then (under $20.00). They were at the Minnesota State Fair last weekend and I felt kind of nostalgic. Actually two original members are no longer in the band - Ace Frehley and Peter Criss (drummer, cat, and vocalist for "Beth", sigh!).

Coolest thing ever. No one can refuse The Sock!

Fantastic!

*standing on a chair* CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP!!!

Awesome! My DH isn't really into handcrafted anything. But he's a huge KISS fan. If it's good enough for Gene Simmons, maybe knitgoods will improve in my DH's eyes!

Rock on! (And thanks to Amanda for the picture!)

Best. post. ever

Gene Simmons is actually a knitter and use to knit on tour!

Score! Saw Lindsay's post about this and had to see the one you did. Lindsay is a friend and one of the founding members of the UAE Amiras - the one and only knitting group of knitters in Dubai and Abu Dhabi, UAE. You can't believe how much I squeed when I saw this post. Yes, yes,I know that girl! I chatted and knitted and drank coffee with that girl! Way to go, you lucky duck!

Okay, I am going out to buy their albums. Any band THAT cool deserves a place on the iPod.

Wow.

OMG!OMG!OMG! I have a poster of KISS by my table at work! TOO COOL!

Fantastic!

Now, I dare my husband to belittle my sock knitting as an old ladies' pastime (not that there is anything whong with old ladies or their kinds of fun - it's him who considers such a comparison belitteling;P)
I'll probably rub him all over with this photo and then some.
And re-runs tomorrow:)

Awesome! you know KISS is going to be re-living moments one day, and they'll be sitting around and going - Do you remember those two ladies who had us take a picture with their sock knitting? Yeah - good times!!

I wonder if they could get them to sing "Detroit, Sock City"?

Too cool for words

So awesome!

This is my fave blog post of yours. EVER. So awesome, and the story that sock will have to tell! LOVE it!

Tell me it was Socks that Rock yarn!
xxx

How extremely amazingly cool!

wow.
that's all i can think to say.

Too Cool!!!

Holy smokes! Way to go Amanda!

Well, they're no Gordon Pinsent, but not bad, not bad at all.

And the headline's pretty magnificently awful, too.

WOWSERS, totally way beyond cool!!!!! That's all I can come up!!

The sock picture is wonderful, but the fact that Gene and the boys are still working, that astounds me!

Too cool! Some day you need to publish a coffee table book of the sock pictures.

How kewl!! Seen KISS in El Paso in 1976. OOOOOoooo, if you ever get your sock pic chance with Ozzie...watch him Steph!!! He might try to bite the toe off!

I've always loved Gene Simmons - he just got so much cooler! AWESOME Pic!!!

Yep. Really, really cool. I think my daughter will actually be impressed with this one!

This rocks my socks. Or her socks. Or all socks EVERYWHERE. I could cry, it's so beautiful.

That's hysterical! Made my afternoon.

I think the only thing cooler would be if Gene Simmons were licking the sock ... but that would make it felt. Not to mention unsanitary ... Never mind, it was a lot cooler in my head.

That is SO FREAKIN AWESOME!

Sa-weeet! Simmons is a knitter? That seems right. Heck, after all, he is in MY age group and I stand to become a great-grandmother in the near future. (I got a young start and he got a late start on making a family.) Oldies that knit are true rock stars, whoever we are. Never saw Kiss in concert, but I did get to see Tina Turner herself. OMG. Still so cool she frosts the windows.

Whoa, this is Epic. Although I'm secretly finding it cool and funny that KISS ranks above the President. Heh.

I'm thinking you and Franklin should make a knitter's coffee table book of sock pictures. I'd buy it!

Who'd have thought it! (Not me that's for sure).

I like the idea of a coffee table book of 'where the sock has been' - don't know that I would buy it though.

Oh My Word. That is all.

Yeah Bay-bee!!

This rocks out. One rock'n'roll salute for the knitters!

\m/

i'd never wash those socks-there are not words to describe the depth of coolness-i'm just gobsmacked-KISS-that's K-I-S-S in the fleshy flesh and all that make up. ah lucky girls

Knitters Rule!!! Rock on!!!

That is so cool!!!!!!!!!!!! It would be really awesome if he mentions it sometime on the tv show. You just never know

the bar has been raised! very coool!!!!

WAHOO!

Awesome!

Wow -- I think a new, commeniratuve Yarn Harlot sock pattern is in order here. Whaddayasay?

I'm picturing lips on the heels instead of tulips.

It could work.

Wow -- I think a new, commemorative Yarn Harlot sock pattern is in order here. Whaddayasay?

I'm picturing lips on the heels instead of tulips.

It could work.

Yipes! Sorry about the multiple posts bove -- if someone could remove the first two (with misspellings), I'd appreciate it.

HELL to the YEAHZ!

Way cool! Now, there just need to be some KISS inspired socks to knit!

I have sent the link to this post to many folks who smile and give me the puzzled/condescending look whenever they see me at work with my sock-in-progress. We'll have no more of that!

These guys are really the members of Kiss? So cool!

WOW! Amazing photo. A friend named her one-month old baby Stanley after Paul Stanley.

AWESOME-NESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OMG! This is cool of colossal proportions! I grew up on KISS - you have just become the coolest person I know...to get KISS to pose with a sock. Ah! I LOVE it!

Perhaps they could use some boot toppers?

FLASHBACK.....(oh wait they're holding a sock)....ok I'm back. Everything from the 80's is coming around again but, this is the coolest thing everrrrr!

Too cool!

I absolutely LOVE Kiss; ever since the late 70's/ early 80's when my grandmother let me borrow HER Circus music magazine. This is so cool! I want this as my desktop wall paper!

My compliments I tried to do the same when I saw KISS last December I was knitting through out the concert in fact I posted pics of me knitting on my FB page I bow to the accomplishment of them.

You will have to count me as a NON-KISS fan, however, I love the pix. Gene Simmons has this look on his face like..Huh? What? LOL

new respect for KISS.

I wanna sock and roll all night and party every day

I think maybe I will give sock knitting another chance. Even if I only work on it when I'm waiting for something (which happens a lot). I agree with Ronda's statement above: They should play "Detroit, Sock City"!

OMG! My brother would have died and gone to heaven! Oops, he's already there, but none the less he would be beyond impressed that his favorite group ever did this! Nothing so cool since they played our homecoming football game in 1978! Beth I hear you calling, but I can't come home right now....I wanna rock n' roll all night...(pardon the little flashback...)

Gene Simmons graduated from Newtown High School, Elmhurst, Queens NYC, from which I retired last year after 9 1/2 years as an English teacher.

Oh my gosh how awesome is that, and not even a cover band but the real dealio! I used to get so embarrassed when they'd play "Beth" on the radio. LOL

I wonder if Gene Simmons will talk about holding the sock on his show.

Way beyond awesome!!!!

Waaayyyy Cool

OK, now that is just too cool for school. I've been interviewing knitters, and I've developed a new wish. I wish I could interview all the random famous people who have been asked to pose for pictures with a sock. How cool would *that* be?

I am in tears. Doesn't get better than that.

WOW - too cool for words. Knew I still loved KISS for a reason. Scored free tix and saw them here (Massachusetts) last month, who would have thought!

LOL - good one to who ever said "Detroit Sock City" thanks for the chuckle.

This is so totally cool. I'm never going anywhere without an S.I.P. (sock in progress) ever again, just in case I run into someone famous. To date, the only celebrity to hold a sock of mine, is you!

This made my day! :)

Very COOL! And, yes, now for some KISS inspired socks. What a great idea.

OMG ! OMG ! I am soooo jealous !

I.Am.In.Awe.

I bow to your awesomeness.

This has got to be the coolest thing I have ever seen.

very cool!

It's especially nice that Amanda and Lindsay are so darn wholesome looking amid the group.

Of course, almost anyone would look wholesome by contrast.

I think that's one of the coolest things I've ever seen!

Thanks for blogging today. I got home tired and since I had to use the computer I was hoping you had blogged. There you were. You alway perk me up. Thanks for being such a great friend. (I have met you and have held "the sock". Wheweeee.

Suh-weet! I seriously want to embiggen this picture! That is really cool. Love it!

Amanda and Lindsay,

The both of you out-cool my friend Meaghan, who has proudly displayed a photo of herself with Paul Stanley in her living room for the past 15 years. Well done.

That's awesome!! I'm so impressed!

OMGoodness, congrats on that picture!!

Way cool! Blog must end now. Cannot be topped! =) (jk please don't!)

I was a huge KISS fan in the late 70s and early 80s, I am sure I learned to slow dance to "Beth"... and now that I'm a sock knitter, and they held a sock... just confirms their coolness and makes me want to buy "Beth" for my ipod. Thanks for the post Amanda, Lindsey and Stephanie!

SOCK on!!!

I never used to like KISS, but now. . .

Stephanie, now your work is cut out for you. You have to top this. You have nowhere to go but up. . .think Springsteen, Jagger, Daltry, Ferry, Bob Dylan, John Lydon (aka Johnny Rotten) -- or, for equal gender representation, Aretha, Tina, D. Harry, M. Etheridge, Siouxsie Sioux, or S. Nicks.

I want to knit and purl all night
and party every day!

Love it!

What a blast! Although they're not my type of music, they'll always have a special place in my heart--they came to my high school in Cadillac, Michigan for a special concert. (My English teacher was a friend of a friend of theirs, and was able to arrange the whole thing.) What a fun experience for you! Congrats!

ROCK ON KNITTERS! ROCK ON!!!

Doesn't matter whether you think KISS is da bom or just a bomb. Scoring backstage passes is cool, getting a picture taken is very cool, and having your knitting featured in said picture is way cool.

You gals rock!

You need a "Not Safe for Work" note on this blog. I just screamed out loud when I saw the picture (even before I read anything). That is BEYOND COOL!

So unbelievably awesome!!

OMG!!! I'm stunned!

That is so cool, even cooler is the fact my cousin's band is touring with KISS!

So now knitters have officially been better treated than Terry Gross (from NPR's Fresh Air). Cool.

LOVE that Gene is pointing to the sock! Awesome!

Duuuuuude! Wow.

Well world, that's it. I think we've officially peaked. That's about as cool as things can possibly get. ;)

Congrats to Amanda and Lindsay!!!

wow, that is over the top :) KISS and knitting. Bravo Amanda and Lindsay...yes ma'am.

Hi! Finally back to reading your blog after a long bit. I have a Question, I have a Babe FiberStarter PVC double treadle spinning wheel and it works fine but I'm thinking of talking the husband into letting me buy a wooden one. Which of the "lower priced" wooden wheels would you recommend? :)

BWAHAHAHAHAHA!

I'm loving it!

(I'm loving it so much that I started to type in "BWAHAHAHAHA" as my name. Well, maybe some days it is.)

Eeee! I'm so jealous. I love KISS! They are one of my favorite heavy metal bands.

I wanna knit all night and party every day.

Too funny! And outrageously cool too. Now I'm going to have to see if I can get some Nashville cats to hold a sock...

soooo cool!!!!!!!! Your blog is a joy to read every day and an inspiration to me with my own knitting projects!

Rock on Sister of the Sock!

Suh-WEET!!!!

Showed the pic to my husband who gets red in the face when I knit in public..... He (a card carrying KISS fan club member) was vastly impressed!!!! We knitters always knew we were cool.... Now we have proof! Ha!!!

Too cool! How in the world can that be topped?

Oh my gosh! That is GREAT!!!!

You know what would be awesome? Getting the Yarn Harlot to hold a picture of my sock in progress.

Talk about a superstar photo op!

Have a great day!!

That is beyond awesome. I saw KISS in 1976 (I was 4, I have a heavy metal Mom) but I hadn't yet learned to knit. This makes me all nostalgic. Lindsay & Amanda, FTW!

That's so funny. I bet it gave them a laugh, too.

I... want to knit a sock all night...
and swatch every day...

TOO FREAKING COOL!!

I think its amusing that KISS came on my playlist while I was reading this.

Get OUT!!!! I can't stop smiling, thinking about how cool that is!

Stephanie I am having a bad day, I'm so depressed over insignificant things, and then I read your blog post and it just made me laugh out loud, and then of course I had to go over and see President Obama holding a sock, which was funny too. Thanks for cheering me up.

And, THIS is the reason to ALWAYS have a sock in progress with you. You just never know--unless you happen to be at a concert with a backstage pass, then awesome sock-tography becomes more likely, but still.

Yes, we all love Obama, but face it - Presidents come and go, but KISS is FOREVER!!! Looooooooove this picture!

not really related to this post, but I just wanted to say thank you for your blog.
As a mother of a 2yrold and 4yrold, part-time to full-time worker and knitter obsessed 39yrold, I haven't really entered the blog world - 'no time'! But I've found yours & am reading back through the years - gotten to 2008 in 2 days (yes, my house, my work, my children are suffering just the tiniest bit).
But this year at stitches-midwest where I signed up for a full load of classes every day & shopped inbetween them all, I saw the groups of knitting ladies having so much fun & wished (for the first time from a previous traveling consultant who is used to eating fancy dinners & seeing movies alone), I wished that I weren't alone & had someone to share my obsession/passion/neurosis with.
Even though we're not really sharing things with each other, just reading your blog & knowing there's someone else out there almost exactly like me (obsessed in all the right ways), makes me feel happy. I've gotten lots of laughs from your blogs & turned around in my chair to share with my husband, but then decided having to explain the joke would ruin it & then just kept on reading just knowing it was out there was enough. He did apprecaite the old blog about breasts & nipples (as a full-term breast feeder myself - my son was 3 when he weaned & my daughter is still nursing - I tandum nursed for a while), though that may have been more him thrilled that I was discussing nipples with him than anything else.

Anyway, thank you for your blog, I hope you continue on infinitum . . . it means alot to me (can you just tell I ready your 6-yr anniversary blog a few minutes ago?)

OMFG!!!! I've been a KISS fan since the late 70's - ooops that could lead to age disclosure.

I'm insanely jealous of Amanda and Lindsay!!!!

KNIT ON!

BRILLIANT!

So unbelievably cool. Only two things could rival it: 1) Steven Tyler of Aerosmith tying the sock to his mic stand or 2) Tony Bennet, in full tuxedo, doing one of his twirls on stage with the Sock In Progress in one hand and The Ball of Yarn in the other.

Otherwise, I got nothing. Gene Simmons pointing at the sock is just the coolest evah.

KISS is one thousand times cooler than the incompetent excuse for a president we are currently enduring in the USA. Good job girls!

Sweet! Now to do Mrs. Franklin...or Condelezza Rice!

:D

is Peter Chris really holding the yarn and sock?! he always was my fave...le sigh.

That is so funny! I wasn't a huge KISS fan way back, really, though I liked and like all rock music - but I did get to see them this spring thanks to my brother-in-law, who got us tickets... Sadly, though there was a lot of downtime, I didn't take my knitting, as I thought my husband and BIL may possibly have totally disowned me if I got knitting out... shucks eh.
But the concert was the BEST I have ever seen in all my 30 years of concerts ;))) (That was in May in Zurich Switzerland...)!!!!!!

AWESOME!! I love this sock in progress photo op! How do you think the coversation went right after this picture? I bet Gene Simmons is going to start offering hand knit kiss socks!

Very kewl!!

Excellent. Gene loves publicity.....

This is too cool for words. I would love to have my sock in progress photographed with Bono. That would be epic!

...oh my....will the socks ever recover!

bjr

Super cool!!!! I'll be knitting more socks in honor. And showing my teenager that knitting is cool.

Just wondering why you called Rosh Hashana "more or less" the Jewish New Year???

No way!

Gene Simmons is a remarkable gentleman. I don't know the other members of the band. But, clearly, they are all fine people.

That is too amazing! What a bunch of good sports! We were at a Cubs baseball game, so I happened to mention to my husband how you got to throw out a pitch at a Blue Jays game. And how nervous you were and all that. And he said, "I am so jealous" See, the bird was right!!!!

Whoa, what a cool pic! I've been a KISS fan for ages (never mind my age!) Their concerts are the best; to get backstage with sock & yarn in hand is more awesomeness than my mind can comprehend! So who's going to design that KISS sock? Hmmm . . .

Dude. That is some serious cool.

Ranks as one of the best sock pictures ever!

Awesome! Well done Amanda and friend!

Sorry! ....well done Amanda and Lindsay!!

My wife loves this blog and posts here often. She often has me read the posts as well. Tonight my whole llfe philosophy on the knitting world has changed from crazy needle laden cultists to the coolest people in the world!! You wanted the best you got the best....the hottest knitters in the world.....Amanda and Lindsay. Kiss rocks and so do all knitters.

FTW! Am I allowed to borrow this and send it to friends?!

Wow! Evidence that knitting rocks.

ooooooooooooooh! this is just the most awesomely funny thing i've seen in so long! after watching a bit of Gene Simmon's Family Jewels, i started to view the guy in a whole new light. but THIS elevates the man to super-sock-dom status! :)

THE most fantastic sock pic of all!! Rock on!

Wow, what a small world, because KISS was JUST here in Milwaukee(about an hour south of me) and then they must have come by you! It's such a small world sometimes! That is so cool that you got a sock picture with them. Not that I'm even that much of a KISS fan, but it is cool that they went along with the sock picture!

That made my day!

Speaking from the hometown of the KISS Army (Terre Haute, Indiana, who knew?) definitely rocks!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiss_Army

totally off topic, will there be a harlot calendar for 2011? (i hope, i hope! otherwise, i'll have to re-read the old ones, which have notes about past m.d. appointments, lost weight, etc.)

Love, love, love it!!! Next, let's look for the sock on GLEE!

Love, love, love it! Next, let's look for the sock on GLEE!

Oh yeah! My husband always said sock knitting was "hot". He is not going to believe this. KISS is his favorite band ever!

HolyCrap that is so AWESOME my eyes teared up. LOL

I just keep reading it over and over because it's just so FREAKING COOL!!!!!

I wonder whether KISS will start knitting now. HOW COOL!!!

I a very concerned that you are getting sick. Please take care of yourself.

Awesome!!! Knitters really do Rock :-)

Now that deserves to be framed!

Stephanie, just wanted ton ask you some questions about SS 2011. Can you email me?

Wanda

I have seen the coolness, and it is the sock...

I just cried a little from happiness!

Maybe Gene Simmons thought it was a tongue cozy :-)

!!!!!!!!!!!!!I skrolled down and choked on my tea!!!!!!!!!!!!Haaaaaa, so funny.

Amanda is my daughter, so proud of her and I appreciate all the cool posts. I think the fact that KISS donates a dollar from every ticket to the WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT is an amazingly humanitarian service and I thank them for that.

Now rock er I mean sock on. I'm not a knitter but I love my knitter.

Sorry if someone has posted this - coming late to the party but "I want to sock and roll all night! Knitting every day..." and I don't even knit socks!

That. Is. AWESOME!

That's awesome!!

Next time you get a weird look for asking someone to hold a traveling sock, just let them know about this Japanese lady, who asks strangers to hold a fish-shaped bean pancake: http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/T100915005640.htm

Rock n roll indeed. That rules beyond anything!