Hmm, my watery, wavy sock design just isn’t fitting the bill for me.  While I think parts of it are interesting – I like that the lozenge shaped repeat isn’t repeating predictably around the sock.  Sometimes it’s a double line
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Not in the literal sense.  I’ve really been wanting a mindless knit.  I love knitting someone else’s designs because I don’t have to figure out stitch counts or calculate the rate of decrease for raglans or any of those things. 
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I placed an order with Elann on Wednesday.  This is the first time I’ve ordered with them although I’ve often looked.  I’m looking for a standard DK weight yarn for a design and want to experiment with the Rowan Pure Wool
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So I started a new computer sock the other day and after a good solid 2 inch ribbed cuff I took a good look at what I had so far.  The striping pattern of the Regia self-patterning yarn seemed pretty
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The weather is perfect for some photography today – cloudy and bright with a soft even light. I’m taking photos of Shelridge Farm’s beautiful Soft Touch DK weight wool for the BKK website. I’ve recently discovered the Shelridge Farm line
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I like to have a simple stocking stitch sock on the needles and I keep it beside my computer.  When I’m reading blogs or email or waiting for pages to load I pick it up and knit a few more
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I teach a Strategies for Knitting with Self-Patterning Sock Yarns class.  How’s that for a mouthful!  One of the points I like to make is that your stitch pattern has to be really simple in order to do both the
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