Welcome to the Geek-A-Long 2022!!!! This year we are going to let our freak-flags and freak-toes fly with some incredible socks inspired by our favorite classic video games. The Geek-A-Long is an MKAL, which means you will know generally what you are making but we won’t reveal the final pictures until the project completes.

This year we are doing several shorter sock MKALs rather than one huge blanket or sweater, and we are starting the year off with The Oregon Trail! The pattern will be released in 5 installments/clues:

3/27/2022 - Project Sheet and Gauge Swatch
4/3/2022 - Leg 1
4/10/2022 - Foot 1
4/17/2022 - Leg 2
4/24/2022 - Foot 2
5/1/2022 - Full Pattern available for download
By adding this pattern to your library you will get the weekly clues when they publish each Sunday. The first week of each pair in the 2022 year-of-the-sock will be a project sheet that contains the yarn, needle, and gauge information you will need to cast on the following week.

First imagined in the Winter of 2013, the Geek-A-Long (GAL) was born from unrestrained idealism and way too much coffee. The idea was ridiculous: Release a new pattern every week all year, based on pop-culture nerdiness. At the end of the year, we would join 48 double-sided squares together to make a massive blanket. Our Fandom Opus would be sent to the Child’s Play Charity Dinner Auction in Seattle, and the proceeds of the sale would go towards providing video games and other entertainment to children in hospitals and domestic violence shelters.

When Megan-Anne cast on that first square, she had no idea what the GAL would turn into. Seven years, seven blankets, and nearly 300 squares later, the Geek-A-Long has grown far beyond us. The community has grown each year and based on our square download statistics there are GAL knitters in every corner of the world. Your generosity is astounding. The GAL community has raised over $10,000 for Child’s play with individual donations and proceeds raised from the sale of the auctioned blankets.

We wanted to do something to make 2020 memorable. Admittedly, that decision was made in 2019, and 2020 doesn’t need help standing out. Still, we wanted to shake things up. When Megan-Anne finished knitting that first blanket in 2014, we never imagined we’d still be making them in 2020. We are blown away by how much love and support the project has gotten and couldn’t have predicted it. We want you to see Eight Bit, On Board, and now these socks for what they are: a love letter from us to the entire GAL community. <3