Knitting Daily Offers Free Sock Patterns

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Go to www.knittingdaily.com, sign up for a free account and download your free sock ebook.

Sandy Wisehart of Knitting Daily says: “Knitted socks have long been among the favorite projects of experienced
knitters, but in the last few years they’ve gained rock-star status. They are
definitely less daunting to the novice knitter,” says Wiseheart.

Wiseheart says this knitted sock pattern e-Book offers “a little something for every foot in the family: a fancy lace sock, a richly textured rib sock, a colorwork masterpiece, a cabled sock, and a simple, basic sock in a large
gauge perfect for beginners.”

Two of the free knitted sock patterns in the book are by Ann Budd, one of the most prolific knitted sock designers in the industry and author of Getting Started Knitting Socks and Favorite Socks. Knit socks in the book span the last five years of publishing at Interweave, and have all been reader favorites
at KnittingDaily.com since the site’s launch. The e-Book includes:

1. Seduction Socks by Ann Budd, originally published Interweave Knits, Spring
2007
2. William Street Socks by Lisa Shroyer, originally published Interweave Knits,
Fall 2007
3. Caspian Sea Socks by Priscilla Gibson-Roberts, originally published in
January 2007
4. Diagonal Rib Socks by Ann Budd, originally published in November 2004
5. Comfy Socks by the editors of Knitscene, originally published in Fall/Winter
2005

The e-Book is available exclusively on KnittingDaily.com

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.

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