Back in November of last year, I went on a (belated) 40th birthday trip to Oaxaca, Mexico. In an effort to pack light, I needed to bring a small project that I could quickly take in and out of my bag with an easily memorizable stitch pattern, but was stumped as to what to bring….
Tag: socks
Year of Gifts: Goldenrod Boot Socks
The September Year of Gifts is here! For September, we enlisted our friend, Grace Anna Farrow, to design us a pair of cosy boot socks. The Goldenrod Boot Socks use Germantown, and the end result is a perfect hard wearing wool layer for crisp autumn and winter days. In conjunction with the release…
Year of Gifts: Sweet Pea Socks
April’s Year of Gifts pattern is here, and its a great one! Designed by friend and fellow Philadelphian, Jennifer Burke, these socks are a twisty cabled delight worked in cherry, springy, neon coral Perennial. The Sweet Pea socks look complicated, but simple two stitch cables are all you need to work the design. As with…
Finished Project: Skolt Sámi Boot Socks
About a month ago, Courtney and I came back from the Nordic Knitting Conference armed with exciting new knowledge and quite a few newly cast on projects on our needles. Over the last few weekends, in between finishing up the designs for our new yarn collection to be released in February and samples for a few…
Independent Designer Feature: Angler’s Loop Socks
We’ve known about and admired the Angler’s Loop Socks {web link} {ravelry link}, knit by Andrea Mules, of Knitting by Bicycle, out of Canopy Fingering in Laguna for a while now, but can’t seem to figure out why it took us so long to feature them! Named after the sailor’s knot that forms a fixed…