Posts Tagged“sock knitting”

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…

Hello and welcome to another sock post on my sock knitting journey. Today’s post is all about pair #7 that was knitted following a sock pattern purchased on Ravelry. In this pair I wanted to experience few new stitches and techniques. This is a pair that made me feel like I’m a real sock knitter and not a newbie anymore. For the first time I knitted a pair of socks, following a pattern which is not from Christine Perry step-by-step patterns. After knitting 6 pairs following Christine’s detailed patterns, I was ready to try something new. Learning new techniques makes me…