Knitting Vanilla Socks with contrasting heel and stripes

How to Knit Vanilla Socks That Aren’t Boring

The term “Vanilla Socks” in knitting refers to a very basic sock pattern that is usually just stockinette all the way. You don’t really need follow a pattern for Vanilla…

How to Wrap Knitted Socks

How to Wrap Knitted Gifts

You’ve just spent 30 hours knitting a beautiful pair of socks for a friend, mindfully creating over 26,000 stitches, one by one, each filled with love. You’ve woven in the…

How to Knit With Self-Striping Sock Yarn

How to Knit With Self-Striping Sock Yarn

Self-striping sock yarn is designed to create stripes automatically as you knit, without the need to change colors or carry multiple yarns.  It’s so easy to use that a blog…

Knitting for Babies Baby Booties

Knitting for Babies

I’ve been doing a lot of knitting for babies lately so I thought I’d share a few WIPs with you.  With the amount of baby knitting I’ve got on my…

knit self-striping socks

How to Knit Self-Striping Socks

I love to knit self-striping socks because they look beautiful and the yarn does all the hard work! I tend to collect a lot of self striping sock yarns because…

Knit Picks Felici Sock Yarn Idea

Knit Picks Felici Striped Socks: My Favorite!

I currently have about 20 skeins of Knit Picks Felici Sock Yarn in my stash, and believe it or not, that’s a pretty tame number compared to some Felici fans! …

Knitted Rainbow Striped Baby Booties

Rainbow Striped Baby Booties

A colleague of mine just had a baby, so I made these adorable rainbow baby booties for her.  I’ve made two pairs of these before and it just occurred to…

Striped Handknit Socks

Giving Tuesday Socks

I’ve got another fun pair of stripey socks off the needles!  I really love this colorway of Felici – it’s called Sally.  The fun thing about Felici is that the…