Oh, happy day! DH has another pair of handknit socks, and I have one less UFO. (Believe it or not, I’m down to just SIX UFO’s. My advice is to keep an eye out for plagues of locusts.) I started these socks on the trip to New Zealand, with yarn I bought there: Naturally Haven, a…
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Techniques & Solutions
Technique Speak
Selvedge or Edge Stitches in Knitting
Soooo… you want to be a better knitter? Probably one of the single biggest wholesale improvements you can make to your knitting is: use edge stitches. Unfortunately, this is one of those knitting things that sometimes I hear complaints about: that no one explicitly spells out this for you in a knitting pattern — you’re…
Sox Therapy, Technique Speak
Fixing the Too-Short Socks
You may remember that one of the things I recently finished was a pair of short socks for DH. Unfortunately, they turned out to be short in multiple places: one of which was the leg, as intended, and one of which was the foot, which was not. And you may also recall that Sheryl’s remark…
Technique Speak
That Loopy Last Stitch
Sometimes, the little tricks are the best ones — simple yet effective. Here’s one that has cropped up a few times lately in various classes I’ve been teaching. Actually, I posted this once before, a while ago — at the end of this post, which is way more than you ever wanted to know about…
Patterns, Sox Therapy
Vine Leaf Socks
Ahhhhhh — finally, I can sit back, relax and blog a little bit. And it’s great that I can now write about something that’s recently been taking a lot of my time. If I were to tell anyone else how things have been just "crazy busy" lately in the world of knitting, well, they’d probably…