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The Sock Knitter’s Workshop

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Remember my desperate plea for help with my socks (well, maybe it was more like “help me not buy any more sock yarn”)? Anyway, I have issues with socks. They don’t quite fit. I wear them and love them because they are hand knit, and I know it’s me, because socks that others have knit fit just fine.

Enter The Sock Knitter’s Workshop – Everything Knitters Need to Knit Socks by Ewa Jostes and Stephanie van der Linden. Check! Check! and Double Check!

This time the socks I’m knitting are straight out of this wonderful book. It’s like the authors are holding my hands and walking me through this. So far, so good. Step-by-step, hundreds of illustrations, and 15 really cool patterns too. It’s a can’t miss! Available from Sixth and Spring, here.

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Comments

  1. love knitting socks but have become stuck in a rut of knitting them cuff down, get goofy when i start at the toe for some reason! Hmmm, need a book!

  2. I produced a video on how to knit socks. Step by step instructions, over one hour and 40 minutes of clear visual instructions. Give it a try, I have a lot of happy customers.

  4. Would like to see your video and want to knit the next pair from the toe up. Thanks for your sharing. Wanita

  5. I want to start the For Mother and Daughter…with lace pattern from pg 105 and 106 of The Knitter’s Workshop but in reading the diagram, a diamond is shown on both row 2 and 4 of the lace pattern. My problem is that no diamond is given in the key for the diagram. Has anyone done this sock? And if so what stitch did you use at that point of the pattern?

Have you read?

Knit a Fish Pouch, for Reasons

I can’t resist a pattern that’s both useful and a little silly, and that’s exactly how I feel about the Rybka pouch pattern from the delightfully named Rat and Sea Witch.

I know you’re going to ask, because I did, too. Rybka means little fish in Polish. (And because you’re also probably going to ask, Rat and Sea Witch comes from people’s attempts to say the designer’s name, Ratasiewicz, which if you say it fast kind of sounds like rat and sea witch.)

It’s easy to make a little fish bag in different sizes to suit your needs. The pattern has specific instructions for an Airpods Pro case and a pencil case, but you could change the length easily to hold more stuff, and change the size in general by working with a different weight of yarn.

The pattern calls for sock yarn and mohair held together to make a fingering weight gauge, but you could try it with heavier yarn and see what size bag you end up with.

Whatever size you make it, this looks like a fun project for holding trinkets or everyday items. The mouth of the fish is the mouth of the bag, and it closes with a drawstring that is also the strap. I wonder, too, if you could make one of these with a small clasp frame that could be the fish’s mouth and then you could just work I cord straps that would attach to the sides of the fish.

I could also see stripes, or fish of different colors to use up your yarn leftovers. How about a sunglasses case with a little loop to attach to your bag? Once you start thinking about all the ways you could use a fish-shaped bag in your life, I think you’ll see that you probably need more than one.

If you make one of these I would love to know how it went!

You can grab a copy of the pattern on Ravelry.

[Photo: Rat and Sea Witch]