{"id":8250,"date":"2012-05-06T19:00:56","date_gmt":"2012-05-06T17:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.breigh.com\/wordpress\/?p=8250"},"modified":"2015-12-07T06:41:41","modified_gmt":"2015-12-07T05:41:41","slug":"101-list-learn-to-knit-socks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/archives\/8250","title":{"rendered":"Bucket List – Learn to Knit Socks"},"content":{"rendered":"

I DID IT!\u00a0 After years of saying how much I want to learn to knit socks I finally sat down and started trying to learn how.<\/p>\n

With the help of my friend Staci<\/a> from VeryPink.com<\/a> I have followed her wonderful tutorials for learning to knit socks<\/a>!\u00a0 You may (ok probably not but whatever) remember Staci from years ago when I used to doggy sit for her and hang out with her two beautiful dogs Gus and Ike<\/a>.\u00a0 I loved those dogs so much, I will so totally own a Basenji one day.<\/p>\n

Anyway, I am now kicking myself for not taking advantage of having Staci in the Netherlands.\u00a0 Thankfully she has started making these tutorials for people like me who aren\u2019t lucky enough to live near her and be able to learn from her in person!<\/p>\n

What I like about the tutorials is that you get a pattern but she also has YouTube videos<\/a> for each step and various techniques to make it easier along the way.\u00a0 I also like that the tutorials are done using larger needles and yarn so that it\u2019s easier to see what you are doing.<\/p>\n

The first tutorial that I followed was Learn to Knit Magic Loop Socks<\/a>. I considered trying the traditional method with double pointed needles but I\u2019ve heard a lot from people who love using the magic loop method and figured I\u2019d go straight for the good stuff.<\/p>\n

\"First<\/a><\/p>\n

I was SO excited when I got past the heel and my sock started to look like a sock<\/em>!!\u00a0 Granted, it\u2019s a big sock that nobody will ever wear because I used even bigger needles (Size 6 US) and yarn (Red Heart Super Saver) than the tutorial calls for, simply because it\u2019s what I had hanging around.<\/p>\n

\"First<\/a><\/p>\n

I was even more excited at the end when I had made one whole honest to goodness sock!\u00a0\u00a0 Ok it\u2019s not the prettiest sock I\u2019ve ever seen but gosh darn it, it\u2019s a sock!!<\/p>\n

Now that I have made one, I\u2019m going to follow another tutorial of hers to Learn to Knit Toe-Up Magic Loop Socks<\/a>.\u00a0 I\u2019m especially keen to learn this method after she explained the benefits to me.\u00a0 Instead of knitting from the cuff downwards, you start at the toe and work upwards.\u00a0 This allows you to use ALL of your yarn, which is great.\u00a0 You get your sock yarn, split it into two equal balls and then you just use each one for a single sock making the cuff as long as you want using the yarn available.<\/p>\n

I already have some beautiful sock yarn that I want to use when I\u2019m ready to try the real deal\u2026<\/p>\n

\"Magico<\/a><\/p>\n

Isn\u2019t it pretty?\u00a0 I\u2019ve had this ball of yarn for probably about 1.5 years, just sitting and waiting to be made into socks.\u00a0 Once I practice a little more making the giant socks I will do my first attempt at making REAL socks with this.<\/p>\n

I really enjoy the magic loop method for knitting, it takes some getting used to but I really like it.\u00a0 I\u2019m hoping that like some other knitters I\u2019ve seen out there, that one day I will be able to knit socks like it\u2019s just second nature because I am happy when I craft and I find it very relaxing.<\/p>\n

SOCKS FOR CHRISTMAS FOR EVERYONE!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I DID IT!\u00a0 After years of saying how much I want to learn to knit socks I finally sat down and started trying to learn how. With the help of my friend Staci from VeryPink.com I have followed her wonderful tutorials for learning to knit socks!\u00a0 You may (ok probably not but whatever) remember Staci …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8252,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[378,10],"tags":[884,55,82,626,230,522],"class_list":["post-8250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-bucket-list","category-crafty-creations","tag-bucket-list","tag-crafts","tag-knitting","tag-socks","tag-staci","tag-youtube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8250"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15609,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8250\/revisions\/15609"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}