As you may know, I am a fairly lazy knitter. I also prefer knitting to a “recipe” rather than an exact pattern. In fact, written knitting patterns are a recent invention in the knitting world, within the last 150 years or so. It’s my belief that written patterns have proliferated mostly because they benefit yarn…
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Fair Isle Just Doesn’t Work for Socks
Today I have an FO to share and some free “experience”. You know what experience is, right? “Experience is what you get when you didn’t get what you wanted.” ~~ Dan Stanford Ta-da! Here is the latest in socks for DH. I was pretty against the idea of knitting plain navy blue socks — how…
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Possibly the Laziest Smartest. Short-Row Heel. Ever.
Hey, the Olympics are over and I did get something finished on my 2010 Knitting Wish List — well, one sock, anyway. But it's a doozy of a sock. This picture may not look like much, but trust me on this. (Plus, there are better pictures further down.) First of all, though, I must explain…
Designing, Sox Therapy
Sock Design 101: Part 6
Hey, we made it! This is the final post in the toe-up sock design series. And since it is the final one, naturally we are going to talk about binding off. The biggest problem with binding off a toe-up sock is how to keep the bind-off from being too tight. The BO edge has to…
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Sock Design 101: Part 5
Before we finish off the sock design series, we have to talk about ribbing. Ribbing is actually a fairly important design consideration. Ribbing at the top edge is what keeps a sock up if it is made of a less-stretchy stitch pattern, such as plain stockinette. And no one is going to wear a pair…