Trailblazer Socks – free pattern and tutorial
The pattern for these socks came long before the name. In fact, the pattern was in my head and on my needles at the end of the summer, but still I dragged my feet...
Category: Tutorials
Blocking socks with sock blockers
If you’re knitting socks to be gifted or to photograph for a blog or social media, you might not always want them to look as if they’ve come straight off the needles. That’s where...
Blocking socks without sock blockers
What do you do if you want to gift a pair of your beautifully hand knitted socks and you want them to look their best but you don’t have any sock blockers? It’s perfectly...
Basic 4ply Children’s Socks – free pattern
Is there anything nicer than seeing small feet encased in woolly socks? Every time I see children in hand-knitted socks, my heart melts – after all, why should adults have all the best socks?! ...
Should I slip knitwise or purlwise?
“Should I slip knitwise or purlwise?” is one of the most common questions that gets asked in my Winwick Mum Sockalong Facebook group (the real-time help group for the Sockalong tutorials). The question relates...
Help, there’s a knot in my yarn!
“Help, help, there’s a knot in my yarn!” Anybody who has ever bought a ball or skein of yarn, whether commercially produced or hand-dyed, has probably come across a join, knot or a dye...
