Kitchener Loom Experiment Results

Well, I’m all recovered from the Maryland Sheep and Wool Festival.  It was a wonderful weekend and many spindles found new homes!  Now I can finally post the results of my Kitchener experiments.  First, I realized that I forgot to link both Kristen’s video and the sock machine video that I mentioned in my last post.  Try them both [...]

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Thoughts on the Kitchner Stitch

I’ve been thinking that I want a different way to do the kitchner stitch. It’s probably most efficient to do it on knitting needles, but I always seem to mess that up (plus I seem to have an aversion to doing any knitting related tasks with needles). When I started making socks, I couldn’t find [...]

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What’s the Flap About, part 3 (my sock has no top!)

So, at this point we have a heel flap and a gusset and a little problem: The sock has no top.   It’s time to put those stitches from the scrap yarn back onto their now empty pegs. Then there is just closing up the gap along the top of the gusset.  To do that I knit  just [...]

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What’s the Flap About, part 2 (heel turn and gusset)

So now we have a gusset of 21 rows (up to 24 or the same number of rows as there were stitches put on scrap yarn should work easily).  It’s time to turn the heel.  I’m not going into much detail here.  Just work short row decreases however you like as if you were turning [...]

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What’s the Flap About, part 1

For this sock I used the Tulip Sock pattern at dalooms.com as the base pattern.  I cast on 48 pegs on a FG mini wonderloom with a cotton wool blend (60/40 Serendipity Tweed, striped coral root for those who care about such things).  After doing 4 pattern repeats I had this: The actual color is closer [...]

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Heel Flap Progress

So, I’ve finally downloaded some photos from my camera.  I did a couple of test heels with chunky yarn on a knifty knitter.  I’ll post the full instructions next time, but wanted to get a couple photos out until then.  The idea still needs some tweaking, but I’ve definitely ended up with something that resembles [...]

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Socks Fit to be Frogged!

Okay, I have a sock problem.  There, I’ve admitted it in public!  I’ve discovered that I like to knit socks.  I like the feel of lovely, handknit, woolen socks.  I love my little mini-wonderloom.  Sock projects are wonderfully portable when I’m on the go with the kids.  But…..I…..have……a…..problem. My socks, with just a couple excemptions exceptions, don’t fit.  [...]

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