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Try Some Different Techniques with These Knit Socks

December 26, 2018 by Sarah White

chili pepper sock knitting patternIf you’re a sock knitter, odds are good you have certain methods that you prefer for making socks, such as cuff down on double-pointed needles of toe-up, two at a time, Magic Loop method.

You might like 2 inches of ribbing, a short-row heel and a star toe because you picked those techniques up in different patterns and liked the look of them or the way they were made.

But you probably haven’t tried all the methods, especially since there are still new techniques being developed and surely some yet to be discovered.

Rebecca Wilder has knit more than 100 pairs of socks, and she’s probably tried more techniques than most to come up with her favorite, which she called Chili Pepper. They are worked top-down and use a variation on the Eye of Partridge heel and a spiral rounded toe. If you’re into sock knitting, grab this pattern and see if it becomes one of your favorites, too.

[Photo: Rebecca Wilder.]

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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]

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