Boss of your knitting
Do you have to block your socks? No, of course not. You are the boss of your knitting, and a grown up, and I have absolutely no power to compel you to do anything at all. I do, however, want to show you what blocking your socks does and talk about when I do it and when you might want to do it. The first picture shows a pair of socks fresh of the needles, never once touched by water. You can see that they're lovely, but a bit crumpled. This is totally normal. The second shows one of them slid [...]
More Tools of the Trade
So the other day you met Alphonse. He's quite dapper, and makes a perfect house guest. Today I'm showing off some truly funky sock blockers. Now you know we've got some big feet in this house. I wear a ladies' size 11, and The Boy wears a men's size 13. These are big feet. I decline to feel bad about this, as the size of a person's feet is more or less out of their control. The only thing I felt bad about was the difficulty in vigorously blocking socks in these sizes. I had a pair of wire blockers [...]
Take Two
The green mitt from the other day was destined for a rip. It was just a wee bit too baggy, and I wanted the lace a the cuff to be a bit deeper. I went down a needle size, which snugged the mitt up just enough. I also added one more lace row to the cuff, which worked much better with the cowl. I'm pleased to report that I didn't repeat the blocking mistakes I made on the cowl. I knew that the secret to maintaining the all important curled edge was to put the pins a few rows in, [...]
Knit Along Patterns
The official thread for the February knit along is up on Ravelry. The individual patterns for these two socks are also now available on Ravelry, in case you prefer to get the patterns one by one. Some time between now and the start of February, Shannon and I will come up with official rules and post them in the group. For now, the general idea is: cast on after it gets to be February, finish a pair by the end of March, be entered to win prizes. Use whatever yarn you like, use whatever color you like, make whichever sock [...]
Snippets
I had a really annoying amount of yarn left when I finished the Rochester hat. It was too much to just toss in the scraps basket (used to be a jar, then it was a vase, now it's moved onto large basket status...something may soon have to be done about that), but it wasn't nearly enough for another hat. I didn't have another skein (it's Aslan Trends Bariloche in Tango Reds). I had added it to a Webs order to bring my total up to the magical free shipping/nice shiny discount level. It was purchased on a whim, and I [...]
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