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Posts tagged ‘socks’

Last November, the folks over at Yarn Canada asked if I would give a review of Patons Kroy Socks. I picked out a few colours and cast on… for socks of course :) First favourite thing? They’re self-striping. The stripes are perfect, and it’s possible…

Hubby’s Christmas Socks

January 5, 2016
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I cast these babies on over the labour day weekend, for a drive to NYC. I managed to get through turning the heel before the end of the trip, and there the project sat for weeks on end. I finally picked them up again about…

Petty Harbour Socks

January 18, 2015
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It’s the little things, right? A nice cup of tea, a yarn with silk or cashmere, a few extra minutes to read in bed–sometimes the little luxuries are the things we forget to give ourselves, even though we’ll readily give these things to others. In…

Pampering yourself, and a Good Nights Sleep.

January 2, 2015
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For years sock knitting mystified me. You’re heard the argument before; why would you spend so much effort, thousands of tiny stitches, expensive hand-dyed yarn, and countless hours, why would you combine all those things and put the results on your feet? To answer the…

A Pair of Shireens for Mom & the Joy of Socks

October 8, 2014
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A few months ago I hinted to my friend Rayna that I love knitted socks, but never have time to make myself some. It hardly qualifies as hinting, I suppose, since I went on to hint that I loved them ankle-high, in variegated yarns, that…

A Pair of Shireens!

March 6, 2014
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So we drove to NYC on the weekend (more on that later) and I was looking for a good knitting project to take up the time. Tito had just received his first pair of socks and he was lovin’ em. So, glumly, I went to…

Music to my ears

May 24, 2013
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Pattern is the ever-reliable (and now memorized) Sporty Striped Peds from Purl Soho. Shodan doesn’t seem impressed. That’s ok.  

Tito socks done!

May 16, 2013
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I have wanted a reason to work with Koigu forever. Pattern: Sporty Striped Peds.

Happy Feet.

April 23, 2013

I was admiring my socks (and how they feel in Crocs… oh, the cushiness…) and I was thinking perhaps I had enjoyed them quite enough and they were due for a wash. This got me thinking ‘what the hell was in that yarn anyway?’ which…

Knotty by Nature Fibre Arts (or, My Socks Grow Funky)

April 17, 2013
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My mom and I are both 5 foot 2. She may actually be 5 foot nothin’, but the fact remains that we are both small. One day she was chatting with Tito and I, and she dropped this gem: ‘Because short things come in important…

Short things come in important packages

April 12, 2013
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