This sock has fairly subdued patterning and I think a lot of men would be ok with it. My own man prefers his socks plain and dim, er, dark. This pattern is a more interesting knit than endless stockinette. It’s free, and you can download the PDF here. Please let me know if there are [...]
This is a quick, super-warm knit done in a lopi-style yarn (in this case it’s a custom yarn of 80% alpaca, 5% merino and 15% bamboo, so it’s snuggly *and* luxurious!). I used 6 oz (170 gm) yarn and US 11 (8 mm) needles to make a scarf 7 x 70″ (18 x 180 cm). [...]
I was wondering about putting holes in socks on purpose, and this is what developed. It’s an easy pattern; there are double yarn-overs, which you work with one knit and one purl stitch in the next row, and the rest is pretty much just plain knitting. I used Jojoland Melody Superwash Fingering yarn in colour [...]
Socks have fairly been flying off the needles around here lately…. The latest are the Maidenhair Fern socks, done in Yarn Treehouse Melody, 100% wool. It took two 220 yard skeins. This is the same yarn I used for the Socks of Hideousness but I like the colours much better. They remind me of forest [...]
Time for another free pattern, this time honouring Lakshmi, the Hindu goddess of wealth, prosperity and generosity, both material and spiritual. She is also the embodiment of beauty, purity, grace and charm. The lace rib pattern in these socks reminded me of the stream of coins running from one of her hands (her four hands [...]
…when I bought this yarn? It’s Yarn Treehouse Melody, a 100% wool sock-weight yarn which I’ve used before and quite like. However, this melange of icky green and over-cooked orange — I can only say that it must have been cheap, and it must have looked better in the photo I ordered it from. It [...]
Happy new year to everyone! Here in Ottawa the day is bright and sunny and fairly cold. Chickadees are all over the bird feeder by my window and the squirrels are cleaning up the seeds on the ground (and for once not fighting with each other). The grouse is still finding things to eat in [...]
It’s so windy today that even though it’s not that cold, it feels chilly and biting out there. One of the things I love about winter in Ontario is that the weather just requires fabulous knit things! This is a simple pattern with eye-of-partridge heels for thicker socks, like boot socks or house socks. For [...]
The waves scarf is a quick knit and easy to do. I tried doing cables without a cable needle for the first time with this pattern, and it worked really well. In case you don’t know how to do that, there’s a link to a tutorial in the pattern .pdf. My wishes for peace, prosperity [...]
The design for this scarf was inspired by some yarn that my friend Moira gifted me with. It is a blend of her own angora and some commercial merino that she had spun up and then hand-dyed. I have some in a soft grey, and also some mint green to play with, lucky me! This [...]
