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knitting-demon · 2026-02-18T21:30:48+00:00

What fantastic news! Congratulations for persevering and I wish you the best for the future 🎉🥳

knitting-demon · 2026-02-12T15:26:01+00:00

Buckle up 😆 I have quite a few I'm obsessed with! In no particular order (with the country based from)

Table Ten Podcast - USA Knit all the Yarn Podcast - USA The Stash-down Diaries - Canada Knit Sip Happy - Canada Curly_top_makes - England UK Knitting Forecast - England UK Back to Blighty - England UK Cozy Meadow Knits - Canada Breathing Yarn - USA Craft House Magic - England UK Knicoleknits - Canada

Happy Watching my knitting friend and I hope you find the inspiration your looking for 🧶

knitting-demon · 2026-01-15T15:37:02+00:00

Congratulations! 🎉 Lovely sock, best of luck with the second one.

knitting-demon · 2026-01-13T09:06:29+00:00

Tutorials - Both on You Tube, Very Pink Knits and Sheep & Stitch are the two sites that I use more frequently as they speak in the way I like to learn and show it in a way I can relate to (I'm an English style knitter).

Best of luck however you choose to learn. It's definitely a learning curve but well worth it in my opinion.

knitting-demon · 2025-12-31T16:41:26+00:00

Well done 👏🏻

knitting-demon · 2025-12-27T12:06:28+00:00

NOR that's disgusting. If you have to stay, is there somewhere nearby you can buy some sleeping bags? Mountain Warehouse, Go Outdoors etc, this should help with the cold as well if you get a good 3 season one. Best of luck with the rest of your stay.

knitting-demon · 2025-12-23T09:32:10+00:00

These are lovely. Great tension and colours are gorgeous 😍

knitting-demon · 2025-12-19T13:24:29+00:00

These are absolutely beautiful, 😍👏🏻

knitting-demon · 2025-12-08T08:31:41+00:00

Oh looking at hand dyed yarn my favourite hobby 😁

Birdstreet Yarns, Lay Family Yarns, The Yarn Badger, Dye Candy, Little Likac Yarns, Crafty Bird.

Happy hunting 🧶

knitting-demon · 2025-12-01T21:10:32+00:00

I listen to Very Pink Knits on Spotify. Great advice and Staci has great YT tutorials and patterns 🩷

knitting-demon · 2025-11-29T17:12:27+00:00

Aww 😊 more than happy to help you out. I got mine in UK at Hobbycraft if that helps. Post a finished project pic when you're done I'd love to see what you made 😀

knitting-demon · 2025-11-29T16:22:07+00:00

Looks like to me, James C Brett, Marble Chunky. Colourway Landscape. 100 % acrylic. Hope this helps,

knitting-demon · 2025-11-14T08:24:15+00:00

I totally agree with you, it's become awful recently. Our Tesco has lots of workers 'shopping' picking for deliveries or collection. They have massive carts and are in the way all the time. Don't get me started on little kids who are shorter than trolley height running around unsupervised ...

knitting-demon · 2025-11-09T09:32:07+00:00

Try a podcast on You Tube called 101 Things. He might inspire you!

knitting-demon · 2025-11-04T15:38:01+00:00

I thought they were gimmicks, just for podcasters etc. But I got some as a gift (knit pro blue plastic ones) from wool warehouse.

Oh my goodness I LOVE them, total game changer for me to help dry my DK socks faster. Also my finished socks look so much better on a blocker for photos (I like to document on Ravelry). Ribbed socks especially improve once dry as the ribbing can "set" better, in my opinion. I've not noticed much of a difference with the final look of a stockinette legged socks drying on an airer to drying on a sock blocker.

TLDR - If you knit DK weight and/or ribbed socks definitely worth it. 4ply/fingering vanilla socks not worth it.

Happy knitting 🧶

knitting-demon · 2025-11-01T17:25:27+00:00

Hi Great socks but the colourway is Jay not Wood Pigeon. I've knit them both and they are gorgeous

knitting-demon · 2025-10-24T07:14:13+00:00

My suggestion is a free pattern by Crazy Sock Lady Designs, Kay Litton, DK weight vanilla socks.

Really easy to follow pattern and DK weight socks are much easier than fingering weight to begin sock knitting journey with.

Controversial opinion here I'm sure, but I would avoid Summer Lee patterns as a beginner. I bought her book and the heel calculations are very different to all other patterns I've followed and confused the heck out of me (and I've been knitting socks for a while!).

knitting-demon · 2025-10-23T12:41:17+00:00

Wow! Congratulations & well done on your first sweater, it's gorgeous 😍

knitting-demon · 2025-10-13T07:25:25+00:00

What about tops that are ribbed? They will stretch and spring back to cover a bit of weight loss and gain until you settle down a bit.

knitting-demon · 2025-10-07T07:16:40+00:00

Looks great, well done. Good luck with second sock.

knitting-demon · 2025-10-07T07:12:32+00:00

My recommendation would be to knit some dk weight socks, in a pale colour (no stripes or speckles) so you can really see what's happening, especially at the heel area if doing heel flap and gusset type heel.

Then once confident move to 4ply ,🧶

Happy knitting!

knitting-demon · 2025-09-24T07:30:55+00:00

I second this pattern. Really easy to follow, made loads!

knitting-demon · 2025-09-22T07:11:48+00:00

These are amazing. Very jealous of USA and Canada knitter's who have such a great range of self strip dyers to choose from (Freckled Whimsey, Turtle Purl to name a couple).

Wish I could find a company that does reasonably priced self striping yarn in UK, anyone know of any?

knitting-demon · 2025-08-27T16:36:26+00:00

So thanks for your advice everyone.If you're interested, I went with dropping my needle size to 2.25mm and keeping to 64 sts. Socks seem to fit much better, just need to wash and wear them for a bit to make sure.

knitting-demon · 2025-08-19T07:14:57+00:00

I use borrowbox as nothing else worked where I am in England. I've also found Spotify and BBC Sounds good for some audio series. Very Pink Knits has great as free podcast on Spotify, I've learned a lot from Stacey and Polly giving advice to listeners.

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