Our next meeting will be Tuesday, October 15th from 6:00 – 8:00pm in Conference Room A at the
Richland Library.
We only had 5 people at knitting this month, but we still had a good time.
We will start a 2 Socks on a Magic Loop Knit Along on October 2nd, for the 5 Wednesdays in October from 6:30 to 8:00pm.
- Help Available Wednesday nights at the DFA Studio, 101 N Union St Suite 208, Kennewick
- This is a plain stockinette sock with a stockinette calf topped by a ribbed cuff. There are no seams to bother your toes.
- This is not a pattern but a method for making socks that fit your foot and to learn how to personalize them in many ways.
- By making both socks at the same time you will make the increases at the same time and any other design ideas
at the same time. - The other bonus – they are finished at the same time!
You will need 400 – 440 yards of Sock weight yarn and one 2mm circular needle between 40 and 60 inches in
length.
TECHNIQUES YOU WILL LEARN
- Judy’s Magic Cast On
- RLI (Right Lifted Increase)Lift right leg of the stitch below the next stitch on the left-hand needle onto the left-hand needle and knit it. [1 stitch increased and it leans to the right]
- LLI (Left Lifted Increase)Lift the left leg of the stitch 2 rows below the stitch on right-hand needle onto left-hand needle and knit it through the back loop. [1 stitch increased and it leans to the left]
- Inserting a Life Line
- Personalizing your sock by adapting a pattern or contrasting heels and toes
- Steeking
- Jeny’s Surprisingly Stretchy Bind-Off
- Kitchener Stitch
- Register here https://www.desertfiberarts.org/events/sock-kal-2019-5/
MATERIALS
- Yarn Approximately 400- 440 yards Sock weight , 2 – 50 gram balls or 100 grams
- Needle 2mm circular needles between 40 and 60 inches in length
- Safety Pin or sock indicators – we will make these in the first session
- Blunt needle
- Ruler or measuring tape
- Piece of cardboard or paste board or cereal box slightly bigger than your foot
- Scissors
- 2 pieces of cotton crochet thread, approximately 18 inches each
- Note taking materials, paper, pen or pencil
We also talked about the new movie Downton Abbey, come next month for a full discussion.
Books we read and recommend
- Ayesha at Last by Uzma Jalaluddin
- Bibliophile series by Kate Carlisle
- Books by Louise Penny
- Dry Bones by Craig Johnson
- Field of Bones by J A Jance
- Full Dark House by Christopher Fowler
- I Contain Multitudes by Ed Yong
- Inside Tracks by Robyn Davidson
- Mother Bruce by Ryan Higgins
- Mysteries by Margret Maron
- Only Child by Rhiannon Navin
- The Calculating Stars by Mary Kowal
- The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks
- The Secrets of Midwives by Sally Hepworth
- Thirst by Heather Anderson
- Unholy Land by Lavie Tidhar
- Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
