Category: Tutorials

A pair of blue variegated socks on wooden sock blockers against a white wooden board background. There is a shell and a ceramic starfish next to the socks.

Avoiding colour pooling and flashing on sock gussets

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...

Basic 4ply Knee High Socks – free pattern

How high do you like your socks to go? (Long post warning …!) Until last year, I’d never considered knitting knee high socks.  I like to wear mine mid-calf and it wasn’t until a...

Basic 4ply Shortie Socks – free pattern

Are you someone who likes your socks to be just a little bit shorter?  There are all kinds of reasons why you might like the cuffs of your socks to be at your ankles...

Let’s talk about … short circular needles

It seems like a very long time ago now that I picked up my first set of short circular needles, the promise of my sock knitting being “revolution-ised” ringing in my ears and proving...

Thoughtful Cowl – free pattern

April can be a funny time of year, I think – sometimes warm (and it looks like we’re in for a glorious Easter weekend this year) and sometimes cold – and it’s always very...

Finding your way around

I’ve been doing some updating on the blog recently and today seems like as good a time as any to tell you about what I’ve been doing – and hopefully it will help you to...

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