Monthly Archives: July 2012

Heel yeah!

Alright, now we’re getting somewhere! Have you test fitted your sock? If it’s for you,make sure you do. You should be able to pull it over your foot quite easily. It should also come to about where your leg meets the top of your foot. If you’re there, you’re ready to do the heel. If not, knit a few more rounds until you are. Here’s what mine look like … Actually, that’s not my foot and this isn’t for me, but you get the idea. So now it’s heel time! Well, not actually. There are lots of ways to […]

Whistler Knitting retreat!

Hey everybody, We interrupt the regularly scheduled programming (the toe-up sock KAL – back tomorrow) to bring you this important announcement from our friend. Shoshana at Wool Is Not Enough is putting together a knitting retreat in beautiful Whistler, BC for the Labour Day weekend! Woooohoooo! Yours truly will be one of the instructors (I’ll probably be teaching cables and continental knitting!) along with a few others. There will also be spinning, needle felting, and other crafty things going on. Not to mention you’d have one of the most beautiful backdrops imaginable. All the details aren’t in place yet, […]

The heart and soul of the matter

Hi again! How are your socks coming along? I hope you’re making both at the same time – although not on the same needles. This is an excellent opportunity to make two similar socks using different methods as well. So today’s step is a very easy one. You should have two caps that just barely cover the toes by now. Here’s a picture of mine … although, these socks aren’t for me. 🙂 The reason I’m doing one pink and one green is to easily show the differences between the two feet. I’ve opted to go with the shaped […]

Left, right, right, left …

Hey, guess what? This blog has been featured on Blog Nation! They have a Facebook page and featured my blog on it. You can go there to have a peek and also like them or even better yet, go to their website Blog Nation, and show this blog some love by giving it a little boost! Here’s the link … Blog Nation and Blog Nation Facebook. And now for our regularly scheduled sock knit-a-long! So I haven’t given you any numbers up until now because I didn’t want to influence your sock at all. Hopefully now you have two […]

It’s Magic! … Thanks Judy …

There are lots of ways to cast-on stitches for toe-up socks. You can do a conventional twin-tail or long tail cast-on and then graft them together, or a figure 8 cast-on, or even a provisional cast-on. Sometime ago, an ingenious knitter developed the technique I like to use the most when casting on for toe-up socks (and other things as well). It’s called Judy’s Magic Cast-on and it was developed by Judy Becker. Judy used to blog but hasn’t for awhile, but you can still find her on Ravelry (JudyBecker) and Twitter @JudyBecker. You can still check out her […]