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 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…

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…

Magic wand with socks

Somewhere Over the Rainbow Socks

I made these socks for my pal Julie – I’m so excited to give them to her!  This is my second pair of socks using the “Nothing Says Screw You…

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…

Snipping into a stitch for afterthought heel

Take a Deep Breath… And Snip!

The sock pattern I use the most often is by far the Sock Surgeon’s Afterthought Heel, which is a bit more like a recipe than an actual pattern, but it…

Striped Socks

8-Bit Socks

It’s yet another pair of stripey socks!  I gave these away as my gift at our holiday yankee swap at work.  I wrapped them up without the heels put in…