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  • A pair of plain white handknit socks on metal sock blockers rest on a floral rug. The socks are slightly staggered vertically with the toes pointing in opposite directions.
    Free Patterns · Knitting Design · Knitting Tips and Tricks

    Basic Worsted Sock Knitting Pattern

    Sometimes it’s easier to learn a knitting technique with thicker yarn. Knitting a worsted sock is a great way to learn to knit socks.

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  • Two stockinette knit hats are laid flat on the top of a white dresser with lots of antique books in the background. The bottom hat is pink with blue and white stripes. The top hat is white with three blue stripes and a blue ribbed brim. Both hats are knit in simple stockinette stitch.

    Free Knitting Pattern: Simple Stockinette Cap

  • The Deimatic Socks, a pair of light blue, cabled socks are laid flat on a white marble countertop. Surrounding them are white roses, antique paper ephemera, old books, and a blue and white coffee cup.

    Free Sock Knitting Pattern: Deimatic Socks

  • A pink cowl with columns of eyelets and bobbles is laid flat on a white marble countertop and surrounded by white roses, a teacup full of milky tea, and antique doilies.

    Free Cowl Knitting Pattern: The Rhubarb Crumble Cowl

  • A close-up photo showing a pale pink mini scarf with pointed ends tied around the neck of a white dressmaker's form. A vintage landscape print in a wooden frame fills the background.

    Free Scarflet Knitting Pattern: The Radling Scarflet

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A close-up on the brim of the Pebbles by the Sea Hat. It shows the 1x1 twisted ribbing on the brim. The hat is knit in a clay-colored yarn and surrounded by white flowers on a white marble countertop.

Knitting

A side view of a white shawl with tan and gray variegations draped around a dressmaker's form. From this angle, you can more clearly see the tiny little bobbles and stripes of lace that make up the textured portion of the shawl.

Patterns

A peach cafe au lait dahlia fills the entire photo with a little greenery visible at the edges.

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A vintage teacup with purple violets painted on it sits on a matching saucer. A tarnished silver spoon rests on the saucer, and the cup is filled with chamomile tea. In the background are some white roses and a silver sugar bowl.

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A pastel plate with five round crackers. Each cracker has some soft cheese and fruit spread on it. The plate is surrounded by white knitting and pastel skeins of yarn.

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  • A cluster of pale peach roses with many petals blooms in the center of the photo surrounded by lots of bright greenery.
    Gardening | Roses

    Two Tips for Rose Care in Cooler Months

    Rose care strategies need to change as the weather cools down, even if you’re not ready for your big winter prune yet.

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  • A white woman's left arm reaches out in front of a gray stucco wall. Her hand is full of roses in varying shades of pink, coral, and yellow.

    All the Roses in my Garden: A Review

  • A peach cafe au lait dahlia fills the entire photo with a little greenery visible at the edges.

    How to Care for Your Dahlia Bulbs During Winter

  • A light green vase full of pink, apricot, and yellow roses sits on a dark table flanked by two large candles.

    June 2023 Rose Garden Update

  • A bouquet of peach, yellow, and cream roses held against a white wall.

    The Gift of the Fall Flush

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  • A woman's feet wearing a pair of light blue handknit socks rest on top of a white comforter. Next to them are a couple antique books, one of which is open and has some faded hellebores resting on it.
    Life of a Knitter

    2025 Digital Advent Calendar

  • A pair of plain white handknit socks on metal sock blockers rest on a floral rug. The socks are slightly staggered vertically with the toes pointing in opposite directions.
    Free Patterns · Knitting Design · Knitting Tips and Tricks

    Basic Worsted Sock Knitting Pattern

  • A side-angle photo showing a pair of blue adult knit socks in progress on a long circular needle and, blurred in the background, a pair of white baby socks in progress on a long circular needle. The blue socks are knit from the toes up while the white socks are knit from the cuff down.
    Life of a Knitter

    Learning to Knit Socks Two at a Time

  • Two blue knit swatches with ribbing at the top sit on a crumpled white cloth surrounded by a pair of pink socks, a pair of white socks, and a few clumps of baby's breath flowers. The left blue swatch is bound off using the standard bind-off, while the other is bound off in pattern.
    Knitting Tips and Tricks

    How to Bind Off in Pattern for Beginner Knitters

Knitting Tips & Tricks

  • A pair of plain white handknit socks on metal sock blockers rest on a floral rug. The socks are slightly staggered vertically with the toes pointing in opposite directions.

    Basic Worsted Sock Knitting Pattern

  • Two blue knit swatches with ribbing at the top sit on a crumpled white cloth surrounded by a pair of pink socks, a pair of white socks, and a few clumps of baby's breath flowers. The left blue swatch is bound off using the standard bind-off, while the other is bound off in pattern.

    How to Bind Off in Pattern for Beginner Knitters

  • A flatlay photo of two skeins of yarn (one pink one cream with pastel speckles), a ball of blue yarn, and a pink knit hat sitting on a vintage embroidered table runner.

    6 Tips for Knitting with Bulky Yarn

  • Four gray mitered squares sit on top of a lace doily next to a yellow rose, a teacup full of milky tea, some antique books, and two neutral-colored balls of yarn.

    4 Ways to Knit a Mitered Square (and When to Use Each One)

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Life of a Knitter

  • A woman's feet wearing a pair of light blue handknit socks rest on top of a white comforter. Next to them are a couple antique books, one of which is open and has some faded hellebores resting on it.

    2025 Digital Advent Calendar

  • A side-angle photo showing a pair of blue adult knit socks in progress on a long circular needle and, blurred in the background, a pair of white baby socks in progress on a long circular needle. The blue socks are knit from the toes up while the white socks are knit from the cuff down.

    Learning to Knit Socks Two at a Time

  • A top-down photo showing a white woman's hands knitting a partially finished sock in cream yarn. Spread on the table in the background are the many pages of a relatively simple knitting pattern.

    Why Knitting Patterns Cost So Much

  • Three white shelves full of books, some vintage and antique, some new. There's also a blue and white Wedgewood Jasperware vase, a hunk of coral, and a blue onion-printed cookie jar.

    Book Collecting for Regular People

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I’ve been saying for at least two years that I w I’ve been saying for at least two years that I was planning to convert the live workshops into self-paced courses, and I’ve finally done it! Now you can improve your craft photography skills no matter where you’re located or what time of day works best for you.

Weather you’re a very new beginner looking to just master the basics or somebody who wants to do a deeper dive into the specific elements of flatlay photos, I’ve got something for you.

I can’t wait to watch your photo skills grow!
My approach as both a knitter and designer has alw My approach as both a knitter and designer has always been that ultimately, you are in charge of your own knit. If you don’t like the technique the instructions tell you to use, you don’t have to use it.

But it is important to understand why the instructions include that technique before you decide whether to skip it. That’s because sometimes, even though we don’t like doing the technique, it produces a desirable result. Sometimes there are other ways to achieve that result, but sometimes there aren’t.

Once you understand the technique, you are better equipped to make informed decisions for yourself and your knitting process.
If you had told me six months ago that I’d be kn If you had told me six months ago that I’d be knitting a pair of socks toe-up, two-at-a-time, on Magic Loop, I’d have laughed and laughed.

I didn’t know how to Magic Loop, and I don’t like knitting socks toe-up.

But since July, I’ve learned how to Magic Loop, and now I’m working on a project where I need to squeeze a pair of socks out of just 50 g of yarn when mine usually take 65. I’m going to be using every inch of that yarn, so toe-up it is!

This is one of my favorite things about knitting: no matter how long you’ve been doing it, there’s still more to learn.
When the weather outside gets gloomy, a vase full When the weather outside gets gloomy, a vase full of grocery store flowers can really cheer things up. I grabbed a couple bunches at Trader Joe’s, and it gave me a week of happiness. Not too shabby.
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