Posts Tagged“sock knitting”

I took pictures of some Spring flowers for you yesterday on our daily walk. Spring is in full swing here in Israel these days. Usually I go out to enjoy our daily walks without my phone so I can’t take any pictures. Yesterday E was going for a run and I had time alone on part of our walking route. I took my phone with me this time so I could play a podcast but I also wanted to take some pictures ​for you. It’s been a while since I last posted here. I thought to pop in today and…

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…

These beautiful Jelly Rolls socks by Mara Catherine Bryner are a special guest on my YouTube channel this week. I finished knitting the toe about two weeks ago and was just about to graft the stitches. I thought it would be a good idea to add the Kitchener stitch on socks knitting into my video tutorials using ​this joyful ​pair as a model.​ Kitchener stitch Is a technique of grafting together two lines of live stitches by creating a new row of stitches between them. It’s the last part of socks knitting, after shaping the toe. It creates a magic connecting the…