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I'm about to hit the road for a little late spring/early summer traveling and that means packing. I'll figure out the clothing situation the day before I leave (I always do), but meanwhile I'm a little stressed out over what knitting projects to bring. Raise your hand if you feel me! Yeah...
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Anne Berk's McGonagall Socks When I was first knitting, I took a lot of classes. I searched yarn shop class offerings for techniques I wanted to learn and I signed up for several classes each session. As I got more experienced, however, I found that I learned better from books and magazines. I like...
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Join us in celebrating the launch of the Sockupied Spring 2011 eMag with a week of sock yarn giveaways! Do you have a favorite among the five sock patterns in the new issue of Sockupied ? Leave a comment and let us know which sock you would like to cast on first. When you comment, you'll automatically...
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Sheep marker from Knitifacts. So cute! Happy Friday! I'm starting a new feature today on Knitting Daily ! I want you to know all about what's going on out there in the knitting world. There's so much knitting knowledge out there, and I don't want you to miss anything. Each Friday I'll...
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Wyeast Socks by Chrissy Gardiner, from the new issue of Sockupied. These socks take their name from the Multnomah word for Oregon’s Mount Hood, home of a historic lodge and ski area. The cable patterns, which are reminiscent of ski tracks, were selected by Chrissy’s husband to ensure they...
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A Kathryn Alexander jacket design using energized yarn. What a beauty! There are all kinds of yarns: single ply, novelty, variegated, worsted-weight, hand-dyed, and so on. But until I got the eMag SpinKnit , I'd never heard of "energized yarn." In SpinKnit , energized yarn is described...
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Finished Object Alert! Plus Sparkly Sock In Progress Quick note: This post is late! I actually wrote it more than a week ago, before my laptop died and took everything with it. Now I'm trying to catch up with all of you! Here's the latest...with more to come soon. –Sandi Your comments on...
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Anna Zilboorg's Fireworks Socks . Photograph by Joe Coca . The square Kristine Byrnes knitted from First Lady Grace Coolidge's pattern for Great-Grandmother's Counterpane. Photograph by Joe Coca . Ingrid Murnane's man's glove that she knitted in 2007 from a 1941 Bestway pattern. Photograph...
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Pavo Slipper Socks from Interweave Knits , Winter 2010 Since writing my newsletter last Friday, I've taken my newest resolution—getting back to sock knitting—very seriously! I've mentioned that I'm moving, and in the process of packing up my office I started looking through my...
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Scent of Lavender from Knitted Socks Around the World I've just realized that I forgot a Really Important Resolution for 2011! And it's this: Get back to sock knitting. I ran a sock club at my local yarn shop for a couple of years, but it's been on hiatus for several months, and I have to...
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Crystalline Socks by Debbie O'Neill, from Sockupied. I love the cuffs of the socks and how they flow into the leg pattern. Aren't the heels neat-o? I especially admire how Debbie makes the interesting transition from leg pattern to heel pattern. I'm planning the Crystalline Socks from our...
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Lisa and I are hard at work, racing to our deadline on Knitscene Winter/Spring 2011, but I thought I'd take a quick break to see what some of our designers from Knitscene Fall 2010 are up to. Our featured designer, Hannah Fettig , has been hard at work, designing two patterns for Interweave Knits...
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Occasionally, among those of us who consider ourselves sock knitters, a lively discussion can break out around one very important topic: Is it better to knit socks from the toe up, or top down? Even among the Interweave Knits staff, there are varying opinions. A very quick and informal poll reveals that...
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Cerulean Cardigan by Wendy Bernard I set a goal for myself to knit two sweaters this fall. After watching the new Knitting Daily Workshop Knitting from the Top Down with Wendy Bernard , I think my second sweater might just be her Cerulean Cardigan (which is available with the DVD). I like this sweater...
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Sweetheart Socks Knotty or Knice Socks On-Your-Toes Socks We've just come out with a download of sock patterns, Best of 2010: Top Ten Patterns for Knitted Socks (see photos of some of the "best of" at left). Looking through it got me thinking about how much I love to knit socks and some...