I’m so excited to introduce you to my new shorties pattern. The Keep Shinin socks pattern has been keeping me company during the last few months and it is now available on Etsy. The fact that it’s the third sock pattern that I publish, still feels more like a dream than a real thing. But let’s face it, I’m an avid sock knitter and when my hands are busy knitting, my head does its creative thing. This sometimes leads to new ideas that in some cases, come up as a new pattern. It’s a journey. The Keep Shinin designing process…

Over the years that I’ve been knitting socks, I only knitted a few pairs of toe up socks. About two weeks ago Mondays girls asked if I could teach them how to knit toe up socks. While in the preparations for this week’s teaching I uploaded the Turkish cast-on knitting tutorial to my YouTube channel. Weekend knitting Last Friday I cast on a new pair of toe up socks. I wanted to make sure I’m totally hands on with everything included in this sock knitting method. And gosh I got totally hooked and couldn’t get my hands off my knitting…

W. There are a few new Granny Square video tutorials on my YouTube channel now, BUT FIRST Hello Hello!!! So many new blog visitors. WELCOME! and welcome back if you are a returning blog visitor. So nice to have you here. My blog analytics showed me a huge pick of visitors here over the last few weeks and it made my heart explode. Really, this is SO exciting to have you all visiting my blog and trying out the free patterns I shared here over the years. Thank you for all the comments you wrote on the posts you were…