Afraid of Sock Knitting? Try Yoga Socks

I know there’s a lot that’s intimidating about knitting socks if you haven’t done it before, but once you’ve successfully turned a heel you’ll feel really powerful and wonder why you were intimidated for so long. Promise.

But if you’re not quite ready to commit to heels and toes, try this pattern for yoga socks from Studio Knits.

I’ve actually meant to make some yoga socks for a long time, not that I do yoga that much, but it would be fun to have some. The fact that these socks are missing the heel and toes mean they aren’t as slippery for doing yoga poses, and you can keep your feet a little warmer if you’re a person like me who always has cold feet.

The beauty of yoga socks aside from their utilitarian properties is that they don’t have any shaping. All you have to do is bind off some stitches and then cast them back on to make the hole where the heel will go. Otherwise it’s essentially a tube.

Have you ever made yoga socks? Any tips? We’d love to hear them!

[Photo via Studio Knits.]

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For the past few years I’ve taken part in a Christmas in July blog hop that encourages people to get a jump on their making for holiday gifts.

I love to use yarn I already have for these projects in the hope that people will consider what they already have that they can use to make projects for themselves or to give as gifts.

This year it was a couple of knit baskets made using partial balls of yarn left in my stash from other projects.

They use the same basic pattern but the first one is made with two colors of bulky yarn, and the second used two strands of worsted weight yarn held together, which made the gauge about the same, but I cast on fewer stitches to make a smaller version.

The bottom of the basket is square, though you can make them rectangular if you’d rather. Then I just knit up the sides in rounds until I was about to run out of yarn. This gave both baskets rather short sides — maybe more like a tray than a basket — but you can keep knitting as long as you like to make the sides of your basket as tall as you want.

They’re worked in seed stitch, which keeps the edges from curling and adds a nice texture to the baskets.

Of course this also allows you to use even more odd balls from your stash. I’d love to make a big one someday combining lots of different yarn. I mean, I’d probably use it to store more yarn, but that’s a fine thing to do.

As it is, these little trays are great for sitting on your desk or bedside table to hold little things that always seem to appear there. I like to use one to hold the supplies for whatever project I’m working on, things like little scissors, my tape measure, a crochet hook, etc.

And they would make good gifts on their own or as a container to hold some other goodies if you like.

You can find the free pattern for these stash busting baskets over at Our Daily Craft.

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