On Monday we talked a bit about slippers, and for the rest of the week I’ll be showing off some of my personal favorites. These are Calceiform, they if you've ever knit a sock you can totally knit these, and they’re 25% off on ravelry with the code SUMMER SCHOOL through the end of the day, eastern time, Tuesday July 21. Ok I'll tell you the secret.  These are baaaaaaaaasically a top down sock with a heel flap...just with the leg bit left off and the top left open for a while.  If you can knit socks, you can knit [...]

Yeah, fine. Slippers are not socks.  But the line between knit slippers and socks gets a bit fuzzy at the edges.  And if you're a fan of knitting socks, I suspect you're going to absolutely adore knitting slippers.  It's all the same cozy vibe, but with fatter yarn and less surface area to cover, so you're done faster! Now, it's the very middle of summer and I get snarly when it's above about 68 degrees.  The world is weird and scary and oh my goodness are instagram and twitter shouty at the moment.  And I have aboooout four spare brain [...]

Half the reason I made these was to have extras to give away when the need arises. So let's give some away!⁠ I've put together packages with three masks each (in a random mix of patterns). I'd like to send them off to five different folks.⁠  Leave a comment on this instagram post telling me something you're doing to make it easier to wear a mask to be entered to win (yes, I'm mean, you have to do it on instagram, it keeps things more streamlined for me and holy smokes but I need streamlined right now).⁠ ⁠ For me, [...]

On Monday we talked a bit about heels and toes, and for the rest of the week I’ll be showing off some of my personal favorites. These are Anemochory, they make even my alarmingly flat feet look lovely and shapely, and they’re 25% off on ravelry with the code SUMMER SCHOOL through the end of the day, eastern time, Friday July 17. So the heel on this does exactly what we've been talking about all along.  Look for the rib that's at the heart of the stitch pattern (in this case a 1 by 3 rib) and continue it down [...]

On Monday we talked a bit about heels and toes, and for the rest of the week I’ll be showing off some of my personal favorites. These are Nain, they are the closest socks get to sexy, and they’re 25% off on ravelry with the code SUMMER SCHOOL through the end of the day, eastern time, Thursday July 16. These are a perfect example of how making your heels and toes pretty doesn't have to be hard.  All I did was extend the ribbing from the last row of the down onto the heel, then extend the ribbing from the [...]

On Monday we talked a bit about heels and toes, and for the rest of the week I’ll be showing off some of my personal favorites. These are By Naughty Design, they do everything I want a sock to do, and they’re 25% off on ravelry with the code SUMMER SCHOOL through the end of the day, eastern time, Wednesday July 15. Look, there are a few things you can do with a sock to make it my secret favorite.  Make it mirrored (feet have a direction, so it's satisfying when socks do to).  Make it comfy (these are basically [...]

On Monday we talked a bit about heels and toes, and for the rest of the week I’ll be showing off some of my personal favorites. These are Changeful, there are actually three different versions of the sock in the pattern, and they’re 25% off on ravelry with the code SUMMER SCHOOL through the end of the day, eastern time, Tuesday July 14. This is a perfect example of what I mean when I suggest you find an element of the sock that you can carry all the way through the heel and toe.  Sure you could have just had [...]

Remember how last week I told you you were the boss of your socks, and that if you wanted thick and cozy socks you could have them?  Yeah, well you being the boss of your knitting thing is a theme.  You can also have pretty (and well fitting) heels and toes if you want them! Fit Both heels and toes can both be adjusted to fit your foot.  As always, put a big mental asterisk here and pretend it leads you to a footnote saying 'usually...they can usually be adjusted.' I can't ever make promises for anyone else's pattern, and [...]

Did you read the last post?  If not, go read the last post so this makes a bit more sense.  And if you did, it's time to flaunt the pretty.  We'll just roll through these folded and unfolded, then do the info thing.       Those are all well rinsed and still damp (so they'll get a little bit lighter when they're totally dry, but not much). Now, we should talk a little bit about indigo (as always, amazon links are affiliate links).  Indigo is a natural dye and it has Rather Strong Opinions.  It loves to fade, and it [...]