How many rainbow FOs (finished objects) is too many? I’m asking for a friend…
Just kidding, we all know the answer to that: you can never have too many rainbows! Well, I can’t anyway. Can’t stop, won’t stop knitting rainbows!
Read moreTalking to Strangers About my Socks
Adventures of the Rainbow.
How many times have strangers commented on your socks?
If we weren’t all knitters this would be a very odd question, I know! But bear with me…
I now have a few pairs of long, hand-knitted socks that give me enormous pleasure. They were incredibly fun to knit, and now that they are done, I am getting a huge amount of joy from wearing them. But it’s not only me that gets joy from my hand-knitted socks…
Read moreThere's A Garter Stitch Short-Row Heel Over The Rainbow
Do you ever find that there’s a, well, slight gap between your knitting expectations and reality?
That’s certainly been the case for me over the past few months. Back in August, I had some big plans to knit all the socks. I cast on with some precious Fab Funky Fibres Neverending Rainbow yarn (I’d been treasuring it for over a year) for our #UseEveryScrapKAL. And I also had plans to knit one, or even two pairs of Jen’s Moorland Socks, September’s Confident Knitting pattern, in our custom FFF Confident Knitting colourways … and had another pair in mind to knit besides! My sock drawer was in need of a refresh, and I had lots of good intentions to restock it.
Read moreUse Every Scrap Knitalong: Finished Socks!
We are deep in preparations for Yarndale at the weekend (are you going? We’ll be on stand J14 and are very excited about it!). But in the meantime, here are the socks…
I hope that you’ve enjoyed this gentle summer sock knitalong. We set off from our toes, and worked our way up the foot, conquered Mount Heel, and as of two weeks ago I hope you’ve been meandering along your calves. This really has been the perfect way to use every scrap, whether it’s a bag of sock yarn scraps, or every scrap of a precious skein of yarn, with this recipe, you can knit until it’s all gone!
Read moreMoorland Socks + Garter Stitch Short-Row Heel
Happy September and happy Confident Knitting release day! The time has finally come for me to introduce you to my very own design for Confident Knitting: Moorland Socks. These are knitted in a Fab Funky Fibres colourway designed specially for Confident Knitting! Do you spy that ever so squishy looking heel? It’s this month’s featured technique, the garter stitch short-row heel!
Read moreUse Every Scrap Knitalong: Working the Heel
Welcome to the next instalment of the Use Every Scrap knitalong! So, now we’ve knitted some tubes, with nice uninterrupted sequences of stripes, be they of the hand-dyed or scrappy variety, that are a bit longer than our feet. Lovely! Except, of course, the small matter of not being able to try them on anymore – our pesky heels get in the way. So today, that’s where we turn our attention.
Read moreUse Every Scrap Knitalong: Working the Foot
Welcome back to the Use Every Scrap Knitalong! How did you get on with your toe(s) last week? Today, we’ll be talking knitting the sock feet, and we’ll even glance toward the leg. Exciting times! Let’s dive in.
Read moreUse Every Scrap Knitalong: Cast On!
Today’s the day that we cast away for our Use Every Scrap Knitalong, and cast on! Over the next two months, we’ll be sharing posts that together will form a road map for knitting toe-up socks that use up every bit of a special skein or scraps that you’ve got lingering in your stash. If you missed last week’s post on preparing your yarn, you can catch up here. Today, we’re going to cover casting on and knitting your toe. Needles at ready? Let’s get started!
Read moreA Garter-Variety Heel (Confident Knitting Video Tutorial)
Have you ever tried a short-row heel? It’s a very useful one to have in your sock knitting tool box! It shares a lot of handy properties with the afterthought heel: it’s worked the same no matter what direction you’re working your sock; it doesn’t require you to pick up stitches along a gusset (there isn’t one!); and, particularly pertinent for this month’s Confident Knitting pattern, you can work it without interrupting the sequence or width of a self-patterning yarn. Unlike the afterthought heel though, there’s no waste yarn (or snipping of stitches) required, and it’s shaped not with decreases, but with (as the name suggests!) two sets of short rows! It’s one of those really clever pieces of knitting that feels a bit magical the first time you do it!
Read moreUse Every Scrap Knitalong: Preparation
Welcome to the Use Every Scrap Knitalong! Over the next two months we will make a pair of socks together – socks that use every scrap of yarn.
Our first task is to decide what yarn to use. Will you use a combination of scraps or a whole skein of something? Read on to learn how to choose and prepare your yarns for this super-fun knitalong…
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