For the Q4 Vintage Queue KAL, you all dove deep into your queues, libraries, and favorites to find the one pattern you’ve always meant to knit. With so many new patterns coming out each week, great patterns often get lost so we thought, let’s blow the dust off some ancient patterns and bring them back to life. With so many wonderful projects, this Kitty Picks was the toughest yet! Here are our picks:

Angie 
Prize: Free shipping coupon

Pick: sew42mom Very Tall Socks
Why? Makes a great winter piece to have! The bow is just too sweet and just makes the socks!

Emily
Prize: Feature your project on ESK’s social media

Pick: vintagenettles Pumpkin Bloom
Why? The colorway/pattern combination is flawless. It’s seamless, which I love, and the lace detail that flows from the yoke to the sleeves is just beautiful!

Erin
Prize: Skein of yarn

Pick: antifreezekills Faded Oak
Why? To be frank, it’s awesome. Her color fade is spot-on and makes the pattern look even better than the original. I also love that it seamlessly integrates yarn from three different dyers!

Janine
Prize: 3 stars for your team

Pick: preciouslyinked Ray of Sunshine
Why? Because WOAH. It’s completely gorgeous, fits perfectly, and makes me want to cast on right now.

Jenny
Prize: Custom illustration based on your Ravelry profile

Pick: enw001 Catkin
Why? As the very worst knitter at ESK, my pick is always solely based on what jumps out at me as I scroll through. This shawl made me say “I want that!…Maybe I should start knitting again.” The blue/white color combo would be perfect for freezing my tail off in my 200 year old house while waiting for the gas man to come refill our propane.

Jess
Prize: Glamor-shot of your favorite yarn

Pick: daughteroffishes Steeky Socks
Why? This socks are so cute (I Gumdrop Mountain so much!) and I love the unusual construction!

Kinsey
Prize: Free shipping coupon

Pick: laniew1 3 Color (not) Cashmere Shawl
Why? These colors are so great together! So cute and well done.

Lindsay
Prize: Free shipping coupon

Pick: sirijor Peanut Butter & Jam
Why? Willy Wonka was my favorite exclusive this year and I love a button up cardigan!

Tracey
Prize: 1,500 yards

Pick: celaine420 Apex
Why?  It has cables, lace patterning on both sides, multiple charts to work at the same time, AND was a gift knit! This one has been in my queue since it was released and it’s lovely to see Celaine420’s gorgeous version in Vintage.

If your project was picked by an ESK Kitty, please e-mail us at trivia@eatsleepknit.com. We will need your ESK username and, depending on the prize, some other information. We hope you enjoyed this Vintage Queue KAL. If your prize was star(s) or yardage, they will count towards this year’s team/yardage total. Thanks to everyone who knitted-a-long and submitted their projects!

Yarnatron dove deep under the sea and got some salt water in his motherboard which shorted some of his circuits. Now, he has a few glitches so he had to come up with a new puzzle for you! Introducing: Liar Dyer!

Yarnatron will now pull up 3 yarn photos on his belly that are supposed to be from the same dyer that’s listed on his top screen. Your job will be to identify which yarn is NOT from that dyer. As the example shows, Yarn 3 is clearly NOT a Madelinetosh colorway (it’s Purple Rain from Blue Moon Fiber Arts) so the answer to this puzzle would be Purple Rain.

These puzzles will get trickier so start studying your colorways now! Liar Dyers will be posted the first 10 Mondays of each quarter on our Twitter feed. Submit your Yarnatron answers here. Have fun, good luck, and if you get stuck, your Ravelry friends will surely give you a hint or two.