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Day Nine
Day Nine of #blogtober and last week was a hectic one that felt better after a few rounds of my sock knitting. It’s lovely to have a project to knit at the end of the day, especially when it’s been non-stop all day! I took a Professional Finishing workshop yesterday
Day Eight Short and Sweet
Yay! I’m back on track with the Gael Sock and as I mentioned, I designed the pattern 6 years ago now and realised after several rounds that I don’t remember the pattern and should really read the pattern!
Day Seven and stitches on!
Yesterday I had to frog my knitting. Pulling back stitches is the easy part! Getting them back on the needles is the tricky part but it isn’t impossible. In fact if you take it nice and slowly it is satisfying to get all those stitches back on the needle. I
Day Six and frog it!
Frog it means I ripped back my sock knitting. Rip it, rip it, rip it…..and so the knitting slang is born – frogging. Because I have to rip it back I therefore frogged my sock. Love how knitting has been around for thousand and thousands of years but there are
Day Five the one with the mistake….
When I decided to do #blogtober I wondered what I would chat about every day. I thought knitting socks would be a good subject. People, who pop into the Skipton studio, might ask me how long it takes me to knit something. I don’t know. I knit things because I
#blogtober Day Four
Thank you for joining me on this #blogtober journey. It’s Day Four and I’m still blogging! (I shalt say this every day….I don’t think LOL) Following on from yesterday I thought I’d show you how to join the dpns into a round.
#blogtober Day Three
Yesterday in the vlog I started the sock journey on the dpns. dpns is the abbreviation of double pointed needles – D ouble P ointed N eedle S Now some of you may have already stopped reading as dpns is like a swear word to many knitters. Nope! They say,
#blogtober Day Two
I vlogged yesterday and then realised I forgot to put it on the blog….only a day late in my blogging every day quest!
#blogtober Day One
It’s the first of October and for the first day I thought we could start off with a vlog!