This was a pattern (bonus for round#1) for Sock Madness 16, a speed knitting contest. (See the Sock Madness Forever group for more information.)

This was a pattern (round #4) for Sock Madness 15, a speed knitting contest. (See the Sock Madness Forever group for more information.)

’An die Freude’ (Ode to Joy) is the last part of Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony Nr. 9 (1824, Op. 125).

This was the pattern for the qualification round of Sock Madness 14, a speed knitting contest. (See the Sock Madness Forever group for more information.)

This was a pattern for round 4 of Sock Madness 13, a speed knitting contest. (See the Sock Madness Forever group for more information.)

Ferrando is one of the male protagonists in ‘Così fan tutte’ (Thus Do They All, K. 588), a drama giocoso in two acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The opera is the wry tale of two young men, Ferrando and Guglielmo, who place a bet on fidelity, putting their fiancées, the 2 sisters Dorabella and Fiordiligi, to the test. The men pretend to go off t...

Papageno is the birdcatcher in ‘The Magic Flute’, opera by Wolfgang A. Mozart. He has a playful, somewhat stubborn, childlike character that gives a lively touch to this eternal story of good and evil.

This was a pattern (qualification round) for Sock Madness 12, a speed knitting contest. (see the SockMadness Group for more information).

Florestan is the male protagonist in Ludwig van Beethoven’s only opera ”Fidelio” (Leonore, or The Triumph of Married Love, Op. 72) The setting is a political prison near Seville in the 18th century where Florestan is imprisoned for having denounced the illegalities of the governor Don Pizzarro. The opera tells how Florestan’s wife Leonore, disg...

“Vltava” (German: “Die Moldau”) was composed by Bedřich (Friedrich) Smetana in only 19 days during the winter of 1874. It is a 13 minutes long symphonic poem that celebrates the sounds of one of Bohemia’s great rivers.

This pattern was a design for the ‘warm up period’ of Sock Madness 11, a speed knitting contest. (See the Sock Madness Forever group for more information)

Albert de Moncerf is a character in the adventure novel “The Count of Monte Cristo” (Le Comte de Monte-Cristo, 1844) by by French author Alexandre Dumas (père).

This was a pattern (round #6) for Sock Madness 10, a speed knitting contest. (See the Sock Madness Forever group for more information.)

“The Count of Monte Cristo” (Le Comte de Monte-Cristo, 1844) is an adventure novel by French author Alexandre Dumas (père). It ranks among the literary classics and tells the epic story of Edmond Dantès, a wrongfully imprisoned man, who –after his escape- unearths a spectacular hidden-treasure on the Isle of Monte Cristo. Backed by these riches...

This is was a pattern (round #3) for Sock Madness 9, a speed knitting contest. (See the Sock Madness Forever group for more information.)

Fiordiligi is one of the female protagonists in ‘Così fan tutte’ (Thus Do They All, K. 588), a drama giocoso in two acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Guglielmo is one of the male protagonists in ‘Così fan tutte’ (Thus Do They All, K. 588), a drama giocoso in two acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The opera is the wry tale of two young men, Ferrando and Guglielmo, who place a bet on fidelity, putting their fiancées, the 2 sisters Dorabella and Fiordiligi, to the test. The men pretend to go off ...

“Fidelio” (Leonore, or The Triumph of Married Love, Op. 72) is Ludwig van Beethoven’s only opera.

“Fidelio” (Leonore, or The Triumph of Married Love, Op. 72) is Ludwig van Beethoven’s only opera.

“Die Fledermaus” (The Bat) is the younger Johann Strauss’s most celebrated and popular operetta - intoxicatingly melodious and exuberant. Mistaken identities, flirtations at a masked ball, elegant frivolities and confusions of all kinds provide a hilarious vehicle for some of the most captivating music ever written. At the end when all misunder...

“Tony” is the male protagonist of Leonard Bernstein’s Broadway hit “West Side Story”, that tells a modern version of Shakespeare’s tragic love story Romeo and Juliet. Set in the Upper West Side of New York in the 1950s, the musical explores the rivalry between two teenage street gangs: the Puerto Rican Sharks and the Jets, a white working-class...

This pattern is designed for the Little Yellow Duck Project (http://thelittleyellowduckproject.org) that creates and distributes handcrafted gifts to raise global awareness of blood, bone marrow, organ and tissue donation.

This is was a pattern (round #5) for Sock Madness 8, a speed knitting contest. (See the Sock Madness Forever group for more information.)

“I Feel Pretty” is one of the most loved songs from Leonard Bernstein’s Broadway hit “West Side Story”.

“The Barber of Seville” (Il barbiere di Siviglia, 1816) is a lively comic opera in two acts by Gioachino Rossini, that is set among the everyday places and characters of 18th century Spain.

“My Fair Lady” (1956), one of the most performed musicals in America, is based on the play ‘Pygmalion’ by George Bernard Shaw and features music by Frederick Loewe and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner. The story follows the relationship between Eliza Doolittle, a Cockney flower girl, and the snobbish Professor Henry Higgins, a phoneticist and confirme...

“My Fair Lady” (1956), one of the most performed musicals in America, is based on the play ‘Pygmalion’ by George Bernard Shaw and features music by Frederick Loewe and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner.

D’Artagnan is the protagonist of the novels “The Three Musketeers” by Alexandre Dumas père.

“Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions” is an 1884 satirical novella by the English schoolmaster Edwin Abbott Abbott, written under the pseudonym “A Square”. It depicts a 2 dimensional universe occupied by geometric figures where women are simple line-segments, while men are polygons with various numbers of sides. The narrator, a square, guide...

This was the second pattern (round #2) for Sock Madness 7, a speed knitting contest. (See the Sock Madness Forever group for more information.)

The Art of Fugue (“Die Kunst der Fuge”) by Johann Sebastian Bach is an exercise in how far one can develop a single theme, in one key. With each successive fugue, Bach is treating his theme to a whole catalogue of contrapuntal variants— inversion, diminution, augmentation, mirroring, doubling…

When newly qualified lawyer Gil Cunningham finds the body of a young woman in Glasgow’s Cathedral he is asked to investigate. Thus starts the 15th-century murder mystery “The Harper’s Quine” by Pat Mcintosh where Gil has to ask lots of questions and must sort through many facts, all apparently disconnected from one another. But finally he puts ...

In the 15th-century murder mystery “The Harper’s Quine” by Pat Mcintosh,

It’s during Compline in St. Mungo’s Cathedral of Glasgow when everything begins in the 15th-century murder mystery “The Harper’s Quine” by Pat Mcintosh.

This was a pattern of the Super Sock Scarefest aka Scary Sock KAL 2012.

“The Bare Necessities” is a song from the animated 1967 Disney film “The Jungle Book”.

“Sheep may safely graze” (“Schafe können sicher weiden”) is the most familiar part of the “Hunting Cantata” BWV208 by Johann Sebastian Bach.

Senta is the heroine of Richard Wagner’s opera “The Flying Dutchman”.

Giulietta is a main character in the opera “Les contes d’Hoffmann” (The Tales of Hoffmann) by Jacques Offenbach.

René d’Aramis de Vannes (born René d’Herblay) is a fictional character in the novels “The Three Musketeers” by Alexandre Dumas père. He and the other two musketeers Athos and Porthos are friends of the novels’ protagonist, d’Artagnan and the four of them have many adventures.

Porthos, Baron du Vallon de Bracieux de Pierrefonds is a fictional character in the novels “The Three Musketeers” by Alexandre Dumas père. He and the other two musketeers Athos and Aramis are friends of the novel’s protagonist, d’Artagnan, and the four of them have many adventures. Porthos is the extrovert of the group, enjoying wine, women an...

Olivier d’Athos de la Fère, Comte de la Fère is a fictional character in the novels “The Three Musketeers” by Alexandre Dumas père. He and the other two musketeers Porthos and Aramis are friends of the novel’s protagonist, d’Artagnan, and the four of them have many adventures.

This was the pattern for round #5 of Sock Madness 6, a speed knitting contest.

“Also sprach Zarathustra” (Thus spoke Zarathustra) is a symphonic poem by Richard Strauss. It’s best known for the initial fanfare “Sunrise” that was use as the opening theme in Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: a space odyssey” and in many other productions since.

This was the second pattern (round #2) of Sock Madness 5, a speed knitting contest. See the Sock Madness Forever group for more information.

in ‘The Magic Flute’, opera by Wolfgang A. Mozart, this story about good and evil, Sarastro is the high priest of the temple preserving the power-bestowing sevenfold sun circle. Symbol of the light, he represents the enlightened sovereign who rules according to principles based on reason, wisdom, and nature. After many twists and turns in the s...

This was the pattern for the semi-final (round #6) of Sock Madness 4, a speed knitting contest.

Papagena is this young, pretty and playful woman in W.A.Mozart’s opera ‘The Magic Flute’, whom I always imagined to be a sort of flower girl, as she enchants the birdcatcher Papageno.

In ‘The Magic Flute’, opera by Wolfgang A. Mozart, this story about good and evil, Sarastro the high priest of an enlightened brotherhood abducts Pamina, whose mother is the evil Queen of the Night. to save her daughter, the Queen sends Prince Tamino who immediately falls in love with Pamina. predictably, love and goodness triumph, Sarastro ove...

Tamino is the handsome prince in ‘The Magic Flute’, opera by Wolfgang A. Mozart, who has to undergo many trials and pass ordeals to win the girl he loves. the meandering ways he has to go towards wisdom and final triumph are reflected in the serpentine cables of the pattern.

Petrouchka, ballet by Igor Stravinsky, depicts the plight of a clown-puppet named Petrouchka at a Russian carnival, who longs to be free from the strings of his creator in order to experience the emotions of life.

This was the final pattern of Sock Madness 3.

Igor Stravinsky’s ballet “l’oiseau de feu” (firebird) tells the story of Prince Ivan, who one day captures a bird with brilliant plumage, the Firebird. in exchange for her freedom, the bird gives him one of her feathers and her promise to come to his aid if ever he needs her. after the bird has flown away, Prince Ivan catches sight of 13 prince...

“Le Sacre du Printemps” (the Rite of Spring), a ballet by Igor Stravinsky, depicts the power and savage beauty of the arriving spring as a wild dancing celebration. The pattern of this sock pictures the cracking earth with the first sprouts emerging and at the same time you can imagine an intertwining whirlwind of dance.

Rhinemaidens are the three water-nymphs in Wagnerian mythology that are to guard the Rheingold, a treasure which can be made in to a magic ring whose bearer will rule the world. the maidens’ joy in the gold derives from its beauty alone, even though they know its latent power.

Legend has is that Lohengrin, knight of the Holy Grail, appeared in shining armor in a boat drawn by a swan to fight for the honor of Elsa, his future wife.