Socks and a sweater

So, I whipped up some new socks for Steve, just in time for him to not where them for a few months: These are my own design, Black Friday Socks, and the pattern will be available (again) soon. I also went to a baby shower last Saturday, so I knit up another version of Henry’s [...]

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Sock’s Revived- Octopus’ Garden

Designed for the Socks Revived Contest hosted by Elinor of Exercise Before Knitting. Even though real octopi don’t collect shiny objects, the imagery in this song has stayed with me. The lyrics (and various Muppet versions) combined with the happy, Caribbean colors in the yarn inspired me to create these socks. The stitch pattern reminds [...]

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Fraternal Socks

A quick little post, because I am so excited about my latest finished objects. This yarn didn’t sit long.  I had it up on my mantle (with the rest of my ever growing collection of handspun) and it kept whispering at me to cast on some socks.  One day it was too much, so I [...]

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March is for Mating?

One of the groups I belong to on Ravelry has a KAL (knit-along) every two months.  The March/April theme is Socks/New Techniques.  Because we are not super strict about our KALs, and because someone mentioned that “March is for making mates,” my goal is to mate up the single socks lingering in my knitting basket. [...]

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