What’s on my Needles; Knitting Video KAL?

Isn’t this pattern lovely? Look at those beautiful stitches. Too bad I screwed up this first sock after I’d gotten all the way to the bind off. Ugh.

I posted about it earlier on The Neighborhood Knit Shop‘s sock club blog. The last instruction on the pattern was to “BO loosely”. I did a normal bind off, as loosely as I possibly could. Having never done toe-up socks before, I didn’t realize this bind off was still going to be far too tight to allow the sock to stretch enough to go onto a foot.

I was incredibly frustrated to find that out the hard way. I am going to have to rip back and reknit a few rows of the cuff (as I’d already cut the yarn much too short to redo the castoff in a new method) to rejoin the yarn. I’m planning to do Elizabeth Zimmerman’s sewn bind off instead this time. Hopefully that will create a much better, stretchy bind off.

The socks for my husband are slowly progressing. The heels were turned, the gussets have been picked up, and now I’m knitting the feet. His feet are about a size 12 so it’s been slow going. I’m just glad that I’m knitting these two at a time so that when they’re done, I don’t have the dread of a second sock looking me in the face.

My only fear is that I might run out of yarn. (Eep!) I’m really hoping that’s not the case. Keep your fingers crossed, ya’ll.

I was thinking tonight, after having received some e-mails asking for help with sock knitting questions, that I might do a video series on knitting socks. Is that something anyone would be interested in?

What I’m thinking about is choosing a very basic sock pattern (a free one) and recording a short series of videos (perhaps a new video every week or 2) and each week go over how to knit a different section of the sock. That way you’d have the week or whatever between each video to complete what you just learned and be ready for the next instructions. It would be kind of like a knit-along, but with video help.

Of course, the only trouble is, before I can do that I need to find the cord to charge my video camera. It’s been MIA since I took it with me up to Pennsylvania to record our wedding. Hmph.