Made an egg cozy for my first magic loop project, but honestly, it's much better suited as a hat for my creepy crochet cat 😆

#knitting @fiberarts #fiberArts #magicLoop

Alldeles för roligt detta!!
Jag har annat att göra...

Men plötsligen kalla kårar; hur kommer det att gå att sticka tumhål när jag kör magic loop?

Det måste ju gå på något sätt men känslan är att det blir nåt knas... Kanske att man får sticka och vända på något sätt?

Någon som testat?
#FrökenFinemang #MagicLoop

Börjar om. (Skaffat en bättre rosa färg.)
Passar på att berätta hur jag startar en magic loop!

Börja med att nysta av halva nystanet av varje färg du ska använda. Har du en våg så är det förstås smartast att väga nystanen då och då eftersom det är svårt att måtta med ögonen i och med att nystanen får olika form.

Edit: sist i tråden kommer en ännu lättare variant på magic loop. Dock väldigt ont i skallen, man får hålla ut lite innan tråden är färdig. 💛🩷
#FrökenFinemang
#magicloop #sticka

I’m turning into my grandmother

This is in itself not a bad thing, my grandmother was a lovely woman. It is from her I got my interest for weaving, she had her loom in the kitchen during winter (save for holiday season), and in a shed without heating most summers. I now have her loom in my possession, it is not the best of them and it is in need of some extra care to work fine again, but it is one I treasure highly. It is not a bad loom per se, but it is rather shallow and thus harder to get a good shed in, and it does have some quirks that more modern looms don’t have.

When it comes to the other fiberarts, such as knitting and crocheting, that was something both her and my own mother did frequently, although grandma probably knitter more then crochet, at least I most often saw her knitting socks of some variety.

And here comes what makes me think I’m turning into her. For one I find that I am occupying myself with knitting socks lately, but it also the fact that I rarely sit and watch TV without some kind of craft in my hands, be it crochet, Tunisian crochet or more recently knitting.

I found a lovely tutorial for how to knit the perfect sock, toe-up, made to measure of your own foot at Nimble Needles. I’m knitting on circular needles using a method called magic loop (YouTube video tutorial).

Though I’ll admit the first sock ended up way too big despite this way to measure out how many stitches I needed. Admittedly I skipped on properly blocking and pinning my sample which means it was not measured correctly.

After som recalculation I went at it again with a new sock, but still ended up with slightly big socks. Now I did some lazy re-sizing by simply going down in needle size after noticing the stitch definition was nicer with the smaller needle, but then it ended up too small.

Now I’m on my third pair and hopefully the fit will be perfect, it is promising at least. I’m still doing lazy re-sizing, and simply went for the half mm needle size in between the too big pair and the too small pair.

Currently the perfect fit isn’t really the main goal, as someone said, they’ll fit someone. The main goal is to learn how to knit the various elements that a sock consists of; the toe-box and turning the heal and knitting the heal flap and gusset part. Each attempt has given me a slightly better finish.

Once I’m done with this pair, I have a fourth pair lined up, still not super fancy sock yarn, but that one is a wool blend, these are all made in the same 100% acrylic yarn. I expect the wool blend to keep shape a bit better, and perhaps be more comfortable to wear as well.

#socks #toeUp #learning #sockKnitting #MagicLoop #Knitting

https://annascrafts.com/im-turning-into-my-grandmother/

Knitting socks two at a time with magic loop might be easier if I had a longer cable, so far it works but as I increase for gusset it may become harder.

For one sock, the 80 cm cable was no issue though.

If it proves too hard, I guess I'll have to look into switching cables mid project. At least I do have a longer cable at hand.

#knitting #socks #twoAtOnce #sockKnitting #magicLoop

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Next up in my #knitting journey:

Attempting toe up socks. I have never knitted socks prior, don't know if that is an advantage or not.

Yarn is acrylic and basically just for testing out the concept.

I have started and restarted the toebox a few times before getting a version where my tension is ok and it looks rather good at the edge.

Doing it using the magic loop on circular knitting needles

#SockKnitting #yarn #knit #magicLoop #learning

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