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  • Once the wedding gift was off the critical list, I returned to my regularly scheduled needlework and finished the Log Cabin Socks for Socktober. In the absence of any suitable replacement for the yarn I ran out of, I u…

  • It has come to my attention that I began my sock reassurance program with an airy "knit the leg" while actually getting started has its difficulties.I am therefore going to show you the beginning of the second sock befo…

  • I had a rough day at work yesterday. We didn't have anything people wanted, I couldn't help anyone, and most of the folks I saw or spoke to were angry.Chamber singers rehearsal was just what I needed. Music is relaxing …

  • Scene from choir practice last night:Director: "They say that they have the biggest organ in the county..." Suwanda: "Lots of men say that. It's never true."But we were talking about Socktoberfest, weren't we? I was thr…

  • Happy Socktoberfest! In yesterday's thrilling installment, we got through the knitting of the sock leg and prepared to do the heel. I dutifully photographed the knitting of the heel flap and turning of the heel, and then…

  • Happy Socktober to all. I am making the Log Cabin Socks from Handknit Holidays, and I thought I would share the process with you in case you were at all nervous about making socks for Socktoberfest.This pattern is a nor…

  • Last night, in a state of sleep deprivation which Sighkey assures me could lead to psychosis, I went ahead with my Fair Isle swatch socks. As you see, and as I see now that I am more rested, I used a slightly different p…

  • I am still working on Hopkins -- I have in fact finished the armscye shaping -- and it is growing on me in spite of my distaste for variegated yarn. Here is a blog with many variegated pictures: http://trickytricot.typep…

  • Natalie (http://knitting.xaviermusketeer.com/) says that we cannot have Sockuary two months in a row, however easy it would be (January, February, Sockuary...), and it was I think her idea in the first place, so I bow to…

  • Here is the second dull sock at the heel-flap stage. The first dull sock is keeping it company, but you can see the incomplete sock with its heel-flap on a dpn. You work back and forth on half the needles, letting the ot…

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