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...
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Blocking socks without sock blockers
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...
Basic 4ply Children’s Socks – free pattern
Is there anything nicer than seeing small feet encased in woolly socks? Every time I see children in hand-knitted socks, my heart melts – after all, why should adults have all the best socks?! ...
Should I slip knitwise or purlwise?
“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, there’s a knot in my yarn!
“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...
Easy Mosaic Socks – free pattern and tutorial
When is a colourwork sock not a colourwork sock? When it’s an Easy Mosaic Sock! I know that sounds like a bad cracker joke, but it’s actually a bit of magic that will let...
