When cookies and tea don't warm you, try these...

At last I am offering my fleece socks on-line.  They have been my best sellers at craft shows for years and they are priced to warm your heart as well.  The children's socks are $4 a pair, $6 a pair for youth sizes and adult sized socks run $8 a pair, Shipping charges are NOT included in these prices and will be $2.00 per pair.

My socks feature an elastic free cuff, wash well, return to their original shape and are soft and warm for winter.  Many use them as bed socks, but others, including myself use them in or out of shoes. My daughter works outdoors all winter and swears by them.  They make great ski socks!

I have named them Great Feet for Great Feats and have testimonials that when worn, not only are your feet warm, but they can perform miraculous feats. When I was a child, it was tradition that the Easter Bunny brought us Keds--remember those?  In new Keds I could run faster and jump higher! Mine were usually red, which I think added to their power. And so I have made my fleece socks in all colors and patterns, so you can pick whichever you feel will give you the greatest lift. Believe in them and they will do just that!!

One of my most special birthday presents was a big box of "toe socks" in all colors and patterns! It was the cheeriest gift ever, and so are my fleece socks.

I first made fleece socks for my young adult daughters for Christmas a few years ago, and before trying them out, they simply pushed them aside, believing them to be one my my weird home-made-"special" gifts that round out their Christmas every year. They then asked if I would be offended if they "re-gifted" them. Their friends liked the socks so well, that they came back and requested more. My girls soon tried them out themselves and now place their order every Christmas for themselves and their friends!

Sock sizes run according to shoe size.  Order bigger if you want them to fit looser (as a slipper), and smaller if you want them to fit tighter (to wear inside shoes).

Children's sizes $4 a Pair: 0-NB (newborn), 0-1, 2-3, 4-5, 6-7, and 8. (I am phasing out size 8-9 that has a slightly longer cuff, but I have four remaining pairs.)
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Youth Sizes $6 a Pair:  9-10, 11-12, 13-1, 2-3, 4-5

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Adult Sizes $8 a Pair:  M 4-5 and W 6-7; M 6-7 and W 8-9; M 8-9 and W 10-11; M 10-11 and W 12-13; and M 12-13 and W 14-15
My adult socks are unisex, and their sizes are marked in both Men (M) and Women (W).  
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Wide Socks are available as a special order. Most socks will fit a range of widths.  If you are concerned please contact me to place a special order. (add $2/pair for special orders)

To Order: Please comment or email me at jmcvermont@comcast.net with your selection by size and number. Because they are one-of-a-kind, I will fill orders on a first come, first serve basis.

Methods of Payment: I accept Paypal and personal checks.  (Socks will be mailed when payment is received.)

And Now...

The Brycer has come and gone and I have pulled materials for my next projects.  I have decided to first finish 72 pairs of fleece socks for this winter’s craft shows.  I like to think of it as my “factory work”. When the kids were young and needed chauffeuring to different activities, I tied fishing leaders for a time. There would be dry spells with no work when I would fret and worry and then lay out on their poor ears a line they repeat to me to this day, "If I'm not here when you get home from school, I've gone to the factory!" I must add that they learned my Scarlet O'Hara drama well and the re-telling of this story along with creating their own dramas comes back to haunt me!

I never did go off to the factory, except to do flu shot clinics when we would simply go to vaccinate the workers with their flu shots for the year.  I did get a peek at factory line production however, and found something appealing in repetitive sort of work.  Perhaps after being a nurse and a special educator, I thought it would be fun to assemble something and count how many I had done, for I was never sure if I could count on my students to really make it to grade level in their reading and there were days that I wasn’t sure that progress of any sort was being made.  The same for my nursing days; despite great treatment plans I would inevitably end up reading about one of my patients in the obituaries.  And parenting, suffice it to say doesn't always guarantee predictable results either.

So in short, there is something quite satisfying about making fleece socks.  They are bright and colorful, fun to cut out and touch their softness, bright colors and prints and still more fun to stitch them up and count them when I am done! At last, satisfying factory work right in my own home.  

Stitching socks is but an interim job however.  It is a "warm up" exercise for what is to come next, as I sketch out variations of a new project and design patterns that I can hardly wait to try out!