Stripey footlets

They’re finally done! My stripey footlets are done. I thought I would get them done so long ago, but then we moved and became busy with unpacking and summer activities. It was touch-and-go there a few weeks ago when I finished the first one, and realized that the notes I took for the first one [...]

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Making the bend.

Yesterday was a rough day around here, my son awakened in the morning quite sick with a high temperature. On top of that I couldn’t find the thermometer and we had no juice. Luckily my mom came to the rescue braving a 30-minute drive (on a good day) and bringing a new thermometer, juice and [...]

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Footlet

Footlet is coming along better than I thought: I’ve been using Lynne Vogel’s The Twisted Sisters Sock Workbook to kind of guide me through the heel. It may actually work, although I still don’t know what I’m doing since I’m not using a pattern.

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Footlet progress

Here’s my progress on the footlet of sock yarn leftovers. The yarn is Louet Gems Super Fine merino wool (purple) and Regia Jacquard Color (colorway 5270), both machine washable. I think this is more an experiment than an actual project, since I’ve never made a sock without a pattern, but maybe I’ll actually be able [...]

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