It’s another rainy day here in northern Virginia, and possibly the last day that it will be cool enough for handknit socks, so I’m taking advantage of the weather to wear my new pink knee socks! This yarn (ONline Supersocke 100 Sierra Effekt, colourway 584 Pinks) came from someone at knit night who was destashing. She had four 100g balls of it, and tried...
Back in May, I started a pair of toe-up socks using some chain-plied merino yarn that I’d spun up about five years ago. I had eight ounces but I wasn’t sure how far it would go, so I wound it into two cakes and started knitting. As the sock grew up my leg, it looked like I’d be able to make knee-highs – and...
These two socks have been stuck at the heels for a few weeks already, and they were holding me up. I like to turn heels when I’m by myself and can keep track of where I am in the process, or inevitably something goes wrong and I have to rip back. I decided that I’d just buckle down and get them both back to...
Once I got past the heel of the handspun sock, I realized that with my inconsistent gauge (because the yarn isn’t entirely consistent) it might not be a bad idea to work the leg in ribbing. I decided on a 4×2 rib and worked my way up. When I reached my usual stopping point for socks, there was still a lot of yarn left...
It’s taken a concentrated effort, but over the weekend I finally finished the combospin that I started for last year’s Tour de France. It’s all spun up, plied, and skeined off – The Woolee Winder on the Sonata makes plying so much faster and easier! I ended up with roughly 700 yards of three-ply yarn from two pounds of a variety of fibre. I’m...
Last weekend I went to Maryland Sheep and Wool with my mom! It was a really fun day and I’m glad we made it work out so we could go together. She got a skein of sock yarn in a rich brown, and I got two ounces of this tussah sliver from Little Barn. My plan is to spin it fairly fine and then...
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