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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.

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?

A Shawlette with a Ton of Design Options

There’s a lot to like about the Eloise Bandana from Katryn Seeburger. This cute little colorwork triangle can be worked as a bandana or kerchief size or a bigger shawlette. 

It’s worked in two colors of fingering weight yarn so you can use whatever yarn you have in your stash and just make it as big as you can (since it is worked from the bottom up). 

You can see the two sizes from the photo, and also two colorwork options: strawberries and lily of the valley. 

But that’s not all the choices you have. In fact, there are 34 different charts you can choose from to knit onto your project. Some of the options include happy faces, a lobster, a pumpkin, a snail and a butterfly. There are cherries, peaches, tomatoes and radishes.

There’s even a blank square you can use to draw your own little design if you want to use something else. Or keep it blank and make it a plain checkerboard design. 

And while both of these shawls use the same icons throughout, you could also use different designs throughout if you want. Say a fall version with a bat, pumpkin, leaf and acorn, or a summer beach theme with sailboat, fish, lobster and a bird? I keep suggesting four different icons because the larger size has four rows of squares, but the smaller has three, so you could do stripes of the same icon or alternate a couple of different ones, whatever you like. 

Look through the finished projects on the Ravelry project page to see lots of different options, from rows to individual icons. There are also some projects that are smaller than the suggested size to make a smaller bandana. You could also keep going a make a bigger shawl working increases in the same way as you have been going. 

Check out all the details and grab a copy of the pattern on Ravelry. 

[Photo: Katryn Seeburger]