A few weeks ago I posted a request for test knitters for a sock pattern I am designing. I was amazed at the response — so many people generously offered their time and effort. Well, the other knitters and I have been working away at our socks, and I hope to offer the finished pattern [...]
Pictured at left is the start of my next sock pattern, which is worked out in my head, but not quite on paper yet. I knit a bit, and try to write it down a bit, and in theory that should produce a flawless pattern, but it just doesn’t work that way. Gremlins lurk around [...]
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 [...]
Well, perhaps it does not make perfect French fries. But I was delighted to see this K-Tel Knitter on eBay, and I quickly put in my max bid of $0.99 US for it. No one else seemed to be as delighted as I was, so I won it! Back in my early teens (or maybe [...]
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 [...]
I have had so many suggestions, requests and even pleas that I not overdye the Socks of Hideousness that I had to sit back and re-think my plan. On the one hand, what level of spiritual negativity would I be drawing to myself if I went ahead and brazenly put my own desires for good-looking [...]
These are the Mockery socks, by Katie Grady (a free pattern on Ravelry; it used to be available at live2knit.com but seems to have disappeared there). Lovely, easy pattern with enough interest to keep one going. I knit them in some beautifully soft and cozy hand-dyed superwash merino that never found a buyer on eBay [...]
