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Free Ebook on Sock Knitting

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sock partsI have completely unofficially declared it to be the Summer of Socks. You can join me in the fun over at About, if you like, or if you’re itching to learn more about sock knitting and get some free sock patterns, check out this ebook from Knitting Daily, which includes a primer on sock parts, instructions for knitting socks both top-down and toe-up, and get some basic sock patterns, too.

This ebook is accessible to you if you’re already a member of one of Interweave’s online communities, or it is free to join and you’ll get instant access to the ebook.

Have you ever knit socks? I’m seeing in this week’s giveaway that quite a few people are listing socks as a fear, so I hope you’ll check out this ebook and head over to About for more tips, advice and resources!

[Photo via Knitting Daily.]

Comments

  1. I have tried socks and I only did one pair, which were not too bad for my first try, but I use the assorted looms and I love them. I do wish you would have some patterns or instructions for those and maybe a give-a-way or two.

Have you read?

Knit a Log Cabin Blanket with All Your Scraps

I guess I must have had this pattern on my mind, because I had chosen this log cabin blanket recipe to write about, promptly forgot about it and a couple of weeks later started knitting a log cabin blanket using all my pink yarn. 

It might stay pink if it makes it to baby blanket sized, or I might add in some pastel green and blue, too, to make a bigger blanket. We’ll see. I’m also holding several strands of yarn together to make a kind of bulky yarn, which means it’s deeply satisfying how much yarn is used even as the project is still relatively small. 

In Kristen Finlay’s version, DK weight yarn scraps (or fingering/sock yarn held double) are used to make a simple scrappy log cabin blanket that’s lighter weight than my version. Log cabin is a great technique for knitters of any skill level because it’s worked in garter stitch. The only not completely basic technique you need for log cabin knitting is picking up stitches. 

If you’ve never worked a log cabin knitting project before, this is a good introduction, and it is really nice to use all your yarn scraps in one big project you’ll use for years to come. 

If you use a lot of DK weight yarn you can keep building on it whenever you finish a project, or if you use more worsted weight you can do the same thing with it, it will just be a little bigger starting out than the pattern calls for. How big it gets is totally up to you. 

I have really been enjoying working on my log cabin project, and it’s my current sitting at my desk and need a break knit (do you have one of those or is it just me?). 

Ready to start your own log cabin blanket knitting project? You can grab the free pattern from Kristen Finlay on Ravelry. 

Need more log cabin inspiration? Check out more log cabin knitting patterns. 

[Photo: Kristen Finlay]