We asked The Joy of Sox designers what their favorite online sock resources were and this is what they had to say.

Kate Buchanan
www.knitty.com for great patterns and advice
www.yarnharlot.com for hilarious knitblog chat
www.ravelry.com Facebook for knitters, this is where your secret nurdishness is welcomed and not derided

Amy Polcyn
Ravelry has to be my favorite. I love to see other people’s finished socks, check out new patterns, discover new (to me), yarns and get ideas for new projects. In fact, I like it so much it is my first, second, and third favorite resource!

Alyson Johnson
Shop socks
Talk socks (forums)
Knit socks (links to free sock patterns on the web)

Kate Atherley
www.knitty.com – there are always good sock patterns there, lots of great challenges
www.socknitters.org – because there’s a great tutorial for grafting that I refer to over and over again

Sivia Harding
Cat Bordhi’s books and YouTube videos.
www.knitty.com for great patterns and articles, especially Judy Becker’s Magic cast on for toe up socks… brilliant!!!!
My two favorite sock yarns which are only available online (at least where I live): Blue Moon Fiber Arts Seduction and Sundara Yarns Fingering Silky Merino. Yum!

Gina House
Sereknity
Sereknitty on Etsy
Spunky Eclectic
Blue Moon Fiber Arts

Kirsten Kapur
Barbara Walker’s stitch dictionaries.
The Loopy Ewe online yarn supplier
Cat Bordhi’s “Socks Soar on Two Circular Needles”

Janine Le Cras
www.knitty.com – lots of lovely patterns and some excellent how to articles for short rows among other things
www.ravelry.com – for all things knitterly – if you can’t find a pattern you like on there you will never find one!
www.cookiea.com – something to aspire to – her designs are fabulous!

Kate Blackburn
www.knittingpatterncentral.com – more sock patterns that I could ever knit!
www.royea.net – I link to this site all the time. The step-by-step photos of the different stages of a sock are brilliant for reassuring new knitters that they are doing things “right”.
Cazza 269 – my favourite yarn source

Laura Andersson
socksandmorewithCPY
Socknitters@yahoogroups.com, Socknitters@yahoogroups.com, Sockathon@yahoogroups.com

Star Athena
Ravelry.com

Lynn DT Hershberger
Socknitters.com (the website for the socknitters yahoo email group). This is where I discovered one could knit socks.
Lucy Neatby’s Sock Toe Chimney A happier way to kitchener stitch.
Ravelry You can find patterns to knit, yarns that work well with those patterns, even find discussion groups about any type of socknitting, method or style. You can often write to the designer and ask questions. And sometimes you can find local socknitters to meet in person, which I recommend highly. Tea with an online socknitting friend is a wonderful way to spend a few hours.

Sabine Riefler
www.knitty.com and www.knotions.com for free sock patterns and www.raverly.com for sock talk, new sockyarn sources and the discussion of new sock books.