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...
Category: Tutorials
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...
