Sunday
How is this happening?! I blink and a whole week has gone past! I don't know about you, but I thought I would have so much time once we were all at home, but that doesn't seem to be the case. And no, I am not losing half of my day watching Netflix! (Although small daughter and I are working our way through a series of Marvel films together and they go on and on and on ...) Anyway, enough of me being bewitched by the speed of the passing days!
Thank you SO MUCH to you all for your kind comments and your purchases of the LikeMinded Socks pattern. I really was very nervous about putting a pattern out for sale rather than my usual free download, but you have all made it a very easy process and I am very grateful. I've promised to donate money from the sales for the rest of this month, but already I can tell you that thanks to you, I'm going to be able to donate a very generous amount!
If you've not seen the post on these socks, you can read all about them and the story behind them here.
Thank you also to everyone who got involved in the Sockalong 5th Birthday - Ann and Pam have been in touch and their prizes from the giveaway are on their way to them.
What else? Oh, earlier this week (last week? It depends if your week starts on Sunday or Monday!), I released a new video on YouTube. This is the first of what's going to be a series of them to go along with the Sockalong tutorials; lots of people tell me that they would appreciate video as well as the photos in the tutorials so I am veeerrry slowly getting my act together and creating those. They're designed to work in conjunction with the online tutorials, not instead of them, so hopefully you'll get a better picture of how it all works when you put the two together if you have questions as you go along.
The first video is here:
I chose this one to start with as the question that is asked most often in the Facebook group is "How many stitches should I cast on for a size [whatever] sock?" The answer of course, is that it depends on the width of the foot, not the length, but for someone who is new to knitting socks, this is a big concept to get your head around! Once you've worked out your own gauge, however, then that's you done for pretty much every sock you'll knit in that particular weight so the 10 or 20 minutes it might take you is, in the scheme of things, no time at all. Yes, yes, I'm as impatient as the next person and want to just get stuck in without messing about with tension swatches, but I can tell you that I've knitted hundreds of pairs of socks now, and they all fit. And it takes 20 minutes to work that out? It's really worth the effort!
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Thank you SO MUCH to you all for your kind comments and your purchases of the LikeMinded Socks pattern. I really was very nervous about putting a pattern out for sale rather than my usual free download, but you have all made it a very easy process and I am very grateful. I've promised to donate money from the sales for the rest of this month, but already I can tell you that thanks to you, I'm going to be able to donate a very generous amount!
If you've not seen the post on these socks, you can read all about them and the story behind them here.
Thank you also to everyone who got involved in the Sockalong 5th Birthday - Ann and Pam have been in touch and their prizes from the giveaway are on their way to them.
What else? Oh, earlier this week (last week? It depends if your week starts on Sunday or Monday!), I released a new video on YouTube. This is the first of what's going to be a series of them to go along with the Sockalong tutorials; lots of people tell me that they would appreciate video as well as the photos in the tutorials so I am veeerrry slowly getting my act together and creating those. They're designed to work in conjunction with the online tutorials, not instead of them, so hopefully you'll get a better picture of how it all works when you put the two together if you have questions as you go along.
The first video is here:
I chose this one to start with as the question that is asked most often in the Facebook group is "How many stitches should I cast on for a size [whatever] sock?" The answer of course, is that it depends on the width of the foot, not the length, but for someone who is new to knitting socks, this is a big concept to get your head around! Once you've worked out your own gauge, however, then that's you done for pretty much every sock you'll knit in that particular weight so the 10 or 20 minutes it might take you is, in the scheme of things, no time at all. Yes, yes, I'm as impatient as the next person and want to just get stuck in without messing about with tension swatches, but I can tell you that I've knitted hundreds of pairs of socks now, and they all fit. And it takes 20 minutes to work that out? It's really worth the effort!
Read more »