Blocking socks with sock blockers
If you’re knitting socks to be gifted or to photograph for a blog or social media, you might not always want them to look as if they’ve come straight off the needles. That’s where...
If you’re knitting socks to be gifted or to photograph for a blog or social media, you might not always want them to look as if they’ve come straight off the needles. That’s where...
What do you do if you want to gift a pair of your beautifully hand knitted socks and you want them to look their best but you don’t have any sock blockers? It’s perfectly...
“Should I slip knitwise or purlwise?” is one of the most common questions that gets asked in my Winwick Mum Sockalong Facebook group (the real-time help group for the Sockalong tutorials). The question relates...
“Help, help, there’s a knot in my yarn!” Anybody who has ever bought a ball or skein of yarn, whether commercially produced or hand-dyed, has probably come across a join, knot or a dye...
There’s something very exciting about knitting with a variegated yarn and seeing how the colours turn out – often it’s not at all how you’d expect! Take a look at the pair of Mermaid’s...
One of the things that you quickly discover when you’ve knitted a few pairs of top (cuff) down socks is that you’ve got leftover yarn. Toe-up knitters will tell you that they rarely have...