I have finished my first ever sock!

[Photo: A black and white hand knitted sock on a white, cloth background. Next to sock is a metal ruler showing sock is around 15 inches in length]

Links to video and written tutorial in attached toot.

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Historical Knitting & Crochet question:

How old is the usage of Blocking Pins* ?

Presumably it's tied to the invention and popular usage of rust proof pins - so somehow tied to Victorian Era Industrialisation ? - but this is hard for me, a non Historian to research.

[* Blocking Pins are groups of pins that today usually have plastic handles but can also be made with wooden handles]

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RE: https://mastodon.social/@SonOfSunTzu/116097949617964611

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Just boosting this, can anyone help with a historical Yarncraft question?

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Circular needles are fun!

Thought I might have to buy new ones as 25 cm is short, but too long for what I am doing but .. tomorrow I will try magic loop with the other much longer cabled needles I have.

::Sigh:: Reading and watching tutorials really is no substitute for actually *doing the thing*

[~I know this~ and yet I keep having to relearn this fact !]

Tantalisingly close to finishing a sock (my first ever!) on a round loom.. but I lost yarn chicken and have to wait untill I can buy more of the same.

It's a tube sock with ribbed cuff and as I used a loom, that somehow ~feels~ like cheating?* even though I am definitely a beginner and only just realised the pattern is apparently advanced 👀😑

[It is *abso-bloody-lutely* NOT 'cheating' to use a loom]

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Made more Yarn Cakes today.
Yarn cakes are currently my happy place.

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I've found my circular knitting needles!

I have never knit with them before.

Please share with me your easiest, beginner level, DK weight, free (or cheap) patterns.

Thanks 👍🏾

My needles range from 3.75 - 10mm and I have varying interchangeable cable lengths :)

Thanks to @RogerBW and @TindrasGrove who already gave me some help

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