Healthy, pain-free hands are perhaps THE most important tools in your hand-knitting toolkit. Yarn is important, to be sure — but of what use is even the most fabulous pink MOHAIR, if it hurts when you knit? Over the years I’ve collected many bits and pieces of information about keeping your hands in good shape —…
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Techniques & Solutions
Designing, Felting, FO Files
More recent FO’s
Here’s some eye candy for ya: a few FO’s! Sari Silk bag: this was knit from some recycled-sari silk yarn, although at this point I’m not sure exactly which manufacturer. This major FO accomplishment started life as “Unbiased”, a bag pattern from Knitty, Fall 2004. Unfortunately, mine was biased. When I sewed the pieces together,…
Designing, Patterns, Sox Therapy
Sock Design 101: Part 3
Oh, hi. You got that basketweave sock done all the way to the heel then? Not quite? OK, good, we’ll "pick up" where we left off. (ha, ha, little knitting humor there. Very little.) Last time we went through the exercise of setting up the basketweave pattern st so that it was centered on the…
Patterns, Sox Therapy
“Rite of Spring” lace sock pattern
The “Rite of Spring” lace sock pattern, which was the April exclusive to the Fearless Fibers lace club, is now available for everyone to purchase as a Ravelry download! let’s see if this works… I said you wouldn’t get bored halfway through, now didn’t I? This is the pattern for the April ’09 shipment…
Designing, Sox Therapy
Sock Design 101: Part 2
(This is the second in a series of posts discussing the process of designing DH’s basketweave socks.) We left off Part 1 with a completed toe, and have discovered that in order to have a sock foot that is about 7" circumference, we have ended up with 64 sts total for the foot of the…