2018 Christmas Socks FO post!

This year West Yorkshire Spinners released the Fairy Lights yarn as their limited edition yarn for Christmas and I grabbed a ball as soon as I could.

This year's colourway gives you four options for matching solid colours from the already available range (510 - Cayenne, 360 - Bubblegum, 395 - Chocolate Lime, 545 - Sarsaparilla)

I chose to do a pair using the Cayenne colourway as a contrast for my first pair. Find my ravelry page here to show how much of the yarns I used.

I will definitely get another pair out of the  Fairy Lights ball so I'm going to be knitting them with one of the other contrast colours.

Christmas Tree Ornament Knit Socks

I picked up a ball of King Cole Glitz wool a while ago and finally got around to knitting up a few tiny Christmas Stockings for the Christmas tree.

I plan on making one for everyone coming over for Christmas dinner and using them to hold a little treat for after dinner. Then everyone can take there's and put it on their tree as a decoration! 

I also wanted to share a quick tutorial on how I knit them up! I did see the Fish Lips Kiss Heel method because it's one I like to knit BT it can be substituted for any heel methodthat you prefer. Or you can purchase the heel tutorial here for about $1 on Ravelry. I also use dpns to knt these but again you can see your preferred method free knitting in the round.

• Cast on 28 stitches using 3mm needles.
• Knit 6 rows of 1x1 ribbing.
• Knit plain stockinette for 20 rounds.
• Knit the Fish Lips Kiss Heel. Mine has 6 stitches left until the boomerang section.
• Knit plain stockinette for 11 rounds.

Toe:

• Round 1 - Needle 1 - k1, ssk, k4
• Needle 2 - k4, k2tog, k1 
• Needle 3 - k1, ssk, k4 
• Needle 4 - k4, k2tog, k1
• Round 2 - knit

Repeat rounds 1 & 2 until there are 3 stitches on each needle. Kitchener closed.

My final sock measures 4.5 inches in length and 2.5 inches wide.

Happy Making!

My First Sock

I decided in March that I wanted to make socks for the first time. My granny always offered to show me how but I was never intreseted. So fast forward to me regretting that and having to use YouTube and Google to figure out the terms in the pattern. Although I have been able to knit for as long as I can remember, I'm pretty much a blanket person with a couple of beanie hats made a few years ago. So I bought some wool and dpns and got started.

So sock knitting is a very different thing to me, trying to figure out dpns and knitting in the round and heel turns and toes and Kitchener stitch. Yea it was a bit daunting. But I persevered and ended up with an actual sock.

Ok it's a little big for me (I used 3mm needles and completely the wrong yarn) but it's a comfy sock and I would were it around the house. Notice I'm not using plurals here. I made one sock haha. This is mainly down to it being too big and wanting to retry the pattern using smaller needles and different yarn.

My first venture into sock making was a success and worked out way better than I expected so obviously I'm now hooked! I've ordered so much some yarn and have about 5 WIPS at the moment along with about a million 2.5mm dpns! The stitch holders and counter in the picture above belonged to my granny. I'm loving being able to use her bits and pieces now.

The pattern I used to make this sock can be found here. I found it by just searching on Google for an easy pattern to try. I found it easy to follow and ended up with a sock!

So I have a question. When did you start sock knitting and why? How did your first one time out? Let me know in the comments below.

Project Details:
Yarn: #19-4004 Søstrene Greene
           78% cotton, 22% acrylic
Pattern: Basic Sock Pattern 1
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Hello!

So I've been thinking of starting a new blog the last while as a place to post about the things I make. This blog will give me more room to talk about things and I can tag everything easier here too. I also want to keep from posting too much on my personal Instagram so I may start another one to go with this page soon.

So a little about me, I've been making jewellery and knitting since I was very young and have trained in jewellery making. I've written tutorials and reviews for jewellery making magazines and websites in the past. I've recently gotten back into knitting as well so I'm enjoying that and hoping to share that here.

So expect to see jewelelry, beading, knitting and whatever else crafty I get up to in the future on this blog. I really don't want to limit to one thing. But right now I'm kinda stuck into knitting so it's probably going to be a lot of posts about that for a while.

You can find me on Ravelry here for all my knitting adventures. Until I get up and running you can in my personal Instagram here which has my crafty adventures from the last while.

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