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A Summer Shorty Sock Club

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feel good yarn handdyedSilverSpun yarn is so much fun to work with. I used it over the winter in a pair of gloves, which takes advantage of the conductive power of silver (you can still interact with phones and other screens with them on).

But silver yarn is also said to have antibacterial properties, which makes it perfect for using in a pair of summer socks.

Knitting Sarah is hosting a summer sock knitalong with Feel Good Yarn’s summer sock club yarns. The club gets you three shipments of yarn hand dyed by Backyard Fiberworks, and people who take part in the knitalong on Sarah’s Ravelry page and successfully complete a pair of short socks during the summer will be eligible for prizes. (You don’t have to use this yarn or any particular pattern, by the way, it just adds to the fun.)

If you’re interested in joining the sock club, it’s open through Thursday (May 14). The knitalong will start on June 1 and run through the end of August.

I’ve knit one pair of really short socks (as in, they have no leg at all) and there’s a pretty short pair in my latest book. Do you ever knit short socks?

[Photo via Feel Good Yarn Co.]

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  4. Angel – you can join the KAL by going to the Friends of Knitting Sarah group on Ravelry. She has all of the particulars there for the Summer Sock KAL.

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Classic Dishcloth Knitting Patterns

Fall will be here before we know it, and that means there are holidays coming right behind where we might be entertaining at home. It’s always fun to have a hand knit touch in your home for other people to see, and if you’re going to be in the kitchen all day you might as well have some nice knit dish cloths to use. 

I love this little plaid hand towel from Darling Jadore. Use a little bit of leftover cotton yarn from another project for the plaid portion. It looks like the horizontal stripes are worked as you knit and the vertical stripes are done with duplicate stitch, making this a quick and easy project even newer knitters can make. 

Combine garter stitch and an easy eyelet pattern worked sideways to make the Annette Dish Towel from Cluck Cluck Boots, which is meant to be reminiscent of flour sack towels. It calls for DK weight yarn and you can work it in one color or two (or even three!). 

Add a little more texture with this set of kitchen towels from Whileberry Creative. They’re mostly worked in garter stitch with borders in easy knit/purl patterns, and you can work them in sport or worsted weight yarn. 

Two of Wands Shop has another cute allover knit and purl pattern they call the Seersucker Textured Tea Towel. It’s an easy repeating pattern worked in worsted weight yarn, and there’s a chart in the pattern you can use, but don’t have to, if you want to practice knitting from a chart. 

The Classic Cloth dish towel from Handmade Home by Connie is another one that can use a little leftover yarn in a contrasting color, or you could color block it our use stripes throughout the pattern. This one uses worsted weight yarn and another easy repeating knit purl stitch pattern. 

If you like to hang your towel on the oven handle or elsewhere but it’s always falling off, try the Stay Put kitchen towel from Fancy Step Knits. This project is worked in garter stitch and includes a hole partway through so you can pull the towel through itself over a rod or handle. Stripes are optional but a nice addition.