I worked the entire heel flap of my pirate sock and turned the heel!
My quandry is that I've been asked to write a pattern for this sock.
I’d want my sock patterns to have at least one size larger than my 10-ish feet and two smaller. Unfortunately, I’d have to charge more — at least $10. The sales hit might not be worth it. And incorporating helical knitting? Some knitters’ heads explode.
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I liked this yesterday, but I love it today!
Doesn't look very scrappy, but that's okay.
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I thought “I’ll just keep it simple” for the #EasyPeasyScrappySocksKAL2026.
Silly me spent yesterday trying different stitches and yarn. 😜 I was determined to have something I like before calling it a night. At 12:34 I succeeded.
Here's the Twill Stripe Pattern from Barbara Walker’s 2nd treasury, adapted for my socks. I’m knitting the blue marled and olive green yarn helically, so the traveling slipped stitches contrast against the background.
Jen a.k.a. @everything.shapes.us (IG) bade me join the Easy Peasy Scrappy Socks KAL 2026, running now through August 31. I'm certainly not one to resist knitting another pair of pirate socks (knit with leftover yarn).
I used my scraps of colorful self-striping yarn during #ScrapAlong2026 but these solid color remnants should do nicely. They're bound to include some helical knitting.
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How much do I want you to knit my Furrow Cap?
Pattern: https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/furrow-cap
I’ll make you a deal.
• Add Furrow Cap and any of my other patterns to your Ravelry cart.
• Use coupon code FURROW.
• Get Furrow Cap for free!💃
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My Furrow Cap knitting pattern is now live on Ravelry!
Pattern: https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/furrow-cap
I didn't start out to design a hat. Everything about my Furrow Cap is the result of tinkering with the details of many knitted hats that came before.
Altogether, this is the pattern for a good, solid, satisfying cap. It's become one of my favorite hats.
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No new knitting to post, so this is a UFO that sits to one side, mocking me. They're a pair of pirate gloves; that is, they are knit from leftover yarn.
It's been a little more than a year since I stalled at the point of dividing for fingers. Why, I don't know. I'm comfortable knitting thumbs on mittens and forefingers on glittens, but I seem to be intimidated by whole hands' worth of fingers.
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Sometimes I have to make myself stop working to enjoy some personal knitting. I enjoyed knitting this short sock so much today that I sped past the beginning of the toe. Fortunately it was just three rounds.
• Universal Yarn Filly, 101 Bloom (46/33/12/9 Cotton/Superwash Merino/Polymide/PBT
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Paused the pattern process to post pretty pictures. This is the pattern sample of my Furrow Hat. To think that after knitting a ribbed cap for the first time, I said “Never again.” 😆
• Coats & Clark Red Heart’s Heart & Sole 3960 Spring Stripe
Knitting on the interisland ferry is still one of my favorite things. Instead of sitting in a fluorescent-lit room somewhere, I happily knit as the ferry makes its loop around the four largest islands.
The view never fails to impress… islands behind islands, faint and misty in the distance… brilliant blue skies, so often full of artistically rendered clouds piled to the horizon.
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The Hairy Knitter