Category — Hand Knitting

Close up photo of a cotton sock knit with Reynolds Cantata yarn and a mock rib cable twist pattern. Graph of cable pattern included in description.

These fingerless gloves are easy, timeless, and fun to knit. The pattern is free at knitty.com

…you’re laid out in the endodontist’s chair, head lower than your legs, shot up from three different syringes of novacaine, and you can still turn a heel.

My life this week is a mix of planning the vegetable garden, working on a pair of Fiber Trend clogs, and swatching on the Passap Duo 80.

After many frustrating months of too tight socks, my Jaywalkers are finally finished. I had to pattern all around the foot to keep the Koigu KPPPM from pooling.

Many knitters suffer from startitis, the knitting disease of starting but not finishing projects. I complete a project and then freeze up for weeks, unable to decide what is most worthy to start next.

Using Fiber Trends Clog knitting pattern as the base, I knitted embellishments and felted them to make a lady bug themed shoe. Free pattern and felting directions for the decorative elements.

Gutter rows in stockinette fabric is the bane of all hand knitters. It results from either knitting or purling at different tensions. Some knit too loose and purl too tight. Others, the exact opposite. Here is how to determine your problem.

Knitting Jaywalker socks has been very frustrating. Too tight, too loose, wrong needles, pooling colors, etc. At least the ripple pattern looks wonderful.

It took me four months to complete Level 1 of The Knitting Guild of America’s Master Hand Knitting Program. It was the best money I’ve spent to improve my knitting skills. See photos of my finished book and sample swatches.

Knitting socks is only half the fun. You have to wear your works of art as well.

Even the smallest changes in mm size of knitting needles can profoundly change the appearance of hand painted yarns.

Pooling colors, puckered decreases, and too tight fit are my life with Jaywalker socks and Koigu yarn.

When it becomes painfully obvious that a sock won’t fit, do you keep knitting in denial or rip it out?

Four different pairs of socks I knit before starting this blog. Lace, Making Waves cable, simple stockinette, and picot tops.

If Addi Turbo can make 40″ circular needles in 2 mm, 2.5 mm, and 3 mm sizes, when can’t it make 2.25 mm and 2.75 mm?

Dak is a wonderful tool for mapping out a charted design. Use the Check Floats feature to make sure no color is carried too far in the design.