Handspun Yarn, Hand Knit Socks - Let's Get Started
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- Опубликовано: 18 сен 2024
- A checklist for starting the #sockspinalong24
Handspun, Handknit Socks Playlist:
• Hand Spun Socks 2022
Fibers (mainly wool); tools for spinning (wheel, spindle, e-spinner); take care of our hands and resources to help guide and inspire! Are you ready?
I mention:
Gaderian Cowl, pattern by @MarinaSkua
Shetland wool sample from Stephanie @CondorsCroft (from her sheep Condor, and I believe she has some fiber still available!)
Ukrainian Socks pattern by Nancy Bush, from the book Folk Socks (Interweave Press)
Winner of the fiber prize is announced at the end of the episode and I can be reached on Instagram as @mywoolmittenfarm,
Ravelry as mywoolmitten. Podcast email is mywoolmitten@gmail.com
Thank you for watching!
Happy Birthday Cary!! 🤗🤗🤗
Thank you dear Susan ❤️
Happy Birthday Cary !!! I hope you have a wonderful day. 🎉🐑🧶🎂. I can’t begin to tell you how excited and honored I am to be the winner of your beautiful fiber give away. Thank you so very much ! ❤️. I’m looking forward to working with all the different types of fibers and being a part of the spin-along for the first time. Also a big thank you to everyone that donated fiber. Happy spinning and sock making to everyone. ❤️🐑🐑🐑
I can't wait till you see it Mary ❤️
Happy Birthday!! Have a wonderful birthday month! Thanks so much!
Thank you so much ❤
Happy Birthday Cary! I hope your 65th year has moments of joy and peace. Thank you so much for hosting this, I am so excited to participate. I am going to spin Finn ( from my ewe Bonnie) alpaca and some angora mixed in. My favorite spinning resource is the Fleece and Fiber Source Book. I return to it again and again to learn about breeds and spinning the fiber. I would be thrilled to have the Folk Socks book. Warm wishes!
Thank you! That's going to make your yarn even more special, that it's from your own sheep ❤
So honored to have some of my wool be part of your socks! Happy Birthday Cary and happy spinning to all!
It's gorgeous fiber Stephanie ❤️
Happy birthday 🎈
Thank you ❤️
Happy Birthday. I ordered the Handspun Homespun second version book after I saw your last podcast. It’s sitting in my mailbox waiting for my husband to get the mail. We’ve had freezing rain so it’s tricky right now, but I can’t wait to get into it.😊😊😊
Freezing rain is the worst! Did you get to check out your book? The second version is not the same as the first - you'll have to let us know if you like it!
@@mywoolmitten love the book. Nice patterns, found pattern for socks I’ve never tried before.
So glad I found you! And glad you enjoyed my glove and mitten video ❤
Thank you for coming by! Yes, I really did enjoy your video, and want to catch up on others!
Happy birthday 🎉 thank you for sharing ❤
Thank you! 🤗
Wishing you the Happiest of Birthdays Cary
Thank you for sharing and taking us along with you 😊
I would be thrilled to win a prize.
I am determined to make a Comfortable pair of socks using My handspun this time around. 😄
Thank you Lyn! I hope this is the year you make those best socks ❤
A lady here in Australia has Shropshire Sheep, she says their fleece is wonderful for socks. I will purchase some and give it a go, may not have it in time for the spinoff though
Happy birthday Carrie! Thank you for sharing your gift with us on your special day. I’m still a novice spinner but so look forward to growing! I’m very much looking forward to this project. A friend recently gifted me the beautiful Folk Sock book but I’d be thrilled to receive the other! God bless you as you bless me. ❤
Are you enjoying the Folk Sock book? Thank you for being here ❤
Wishing you the happiest of birthdays and thank you for the spin along. I love spinning for socks and it is so nice to have a “family@ to spin along with.
That's so sweet of you to say! I feel the same way ❤️
Happy Birthday Cary! I'm glad you spent part of it making a nice video and starting the spin-along. I do not have a folk sock book or a handspun reference but after next week there's a good chance I will order them. I'm so excited about this spin-along and sock making. I've knitted socks in the past but I am really happy to try with the yarn I spun on my drop spindle. I'm going to try to make 2 ply this week. see you next week! Lisa
Thank you Lisa! I'm interested to hear how your sock yarn turns out! ❤
Thank you for the videos, Cary. I really enjoy watching. I also have a Louet, which I learned on, and I use it for all sorts of yarn. 😊
Thank you! I really love my Louets, too ❤️ I hope to have a new episode up tonight 🤞
Happy Birthday! I hope you had wonderful day,
I'm ready to start spinning, black (it looks more like dark chocolate to me) Border Leicester washed fleece / locks and some dark red Shetland (with some nylon added) roving for the cuffs, heels, and toes. I'll be spinning on my Quebec (CPW) wheel, which likes to spin thin, but my sock yarn usually ends up being sport weight two-ply, and I use 70 to 75 grams for a pair of socks. They're not shorties but not boot socks either. Happy Spinning!
Oh that's going to be beautiful!
I don’t have any reference books on sock knitting. I learned from watching RUclips videos. I love the folk sock book!
Isn't it great that we have so many resources available to us?
Hi, Cary. Thank you for your video. Happy your birthday and good week.❤
i was hoping so much to win your beautiful fiber…I think you will make a wonderful pair of socks ! No I don’t have any resource book, and I would like to win this time…thank you to share with us. Have a wonderful day! From Quebec, Canada
I wish I could have gifted some to everyone ❤
Happy belated birthday! This is my first time finding you and it was so enjoyable!!! Happy knitting and spinning 💚🐑🧶💚
Thank you so much, I'm glad you found me! Are you thinking of spinning for socks with us? It's not to late!
Happy birthday, Cary! I'm excited to join in for the first time this year. My sock spin will be very experimental (for me), and I'm looking forward to learning and just seeing what happens. My fiber is carded cloud, Border Leicester/BFL/Alpaca. I ordered a used copy of the Linda Ligon book and it's on its way to me now. Thank you for all the inspiration and encouragement!
Thank you for being here! I think your fiber sounds fantastic ❤
Wishing you a very Happy Birthday!!! Your generosity is amazing. Congratulations to Mary, I hope you enjoy spinning this beautiful fiber. Cary, I don’t have a “reference” for handspun, other than knitting with it. The fiber used to create the yarn, really is the reference to the project to be knitted, crocheted, or woven. For socks, it is always toe up with my favorite toe, and heel, then the in between is whatever it wants to be :) this time, I think it might be some cables, we shall see. Enjoy some yummy cake!!!!! Stay warm. Hugs.
I love that Margo! And thank you for the birthday wishes my friend ❤️
Happy Birthday Carrie!!❤
I hope you have had a wonderful day today!
Wishing you all the best in the year ahead!
I would be really excited to have one of your reference books!!
You are so kind and generous❣️
Congrats Mary on your fiber gift!!🎉
Thank you so much ❤️
Hi Carrie, I'm really enjoying your sockalong episodes and your podcast as a whole is wonderful. I don't currently have any handspun reference books and would be thrilled to receive either one of these. Thank you for hosting this giveaway!
Thank you so much for watching! ❤
Happy birthday! I’ve reserved a book about spinning from the library and will pick it up tomorrow.
Thank you so much! I think you'd love having handspun wool socks for your barn boots, too ❤️
Happy Birthday Cary!! Congratulations to Mary such a wonderful prize! I have the reference book yarnitecture by Jillian Moreno.
Thank you! Julian's book seems to be a very popular one ❤
Happy Birthday!
Thank you my friend!
@@mywoolmitten enjoyed your presentation!
Thank you 😊 Do you think you might spin for some socks?
Congratulations Mary! Thanks Carrie☺️
I own the complete guide to spinning yarns by Brenda Gibson. The folk sock book looks very interesting.
That sounds like a good book to have!
@@mywoolmitten yes. It has an A to Z approach with some pattern ideas.
Happy Birthday! I'm a new follower and this will be my first Spin for socks-along. I'll be combining this with a spindle spinning challenge, but I haven't decided on my fiber or sock pattern yet. I love the book Homespun Handknit. I also use the Fleece and Fiber Sourcebook quite often.
Thank you for being here!
Happy birthday Cary. Hope your day was full of love and laughter 🎉 I’ve found some corriedale and decided I’ll try a 3 ply. I can’t wait to get started. I don’t actually own any hand spinning books at all I’ve just grabbed a pattern from the internet.
I'm glad you're here! I can't wait to see your 3 ply snd of course, Corriedale is my first love ❤
Thank you for another informative and inspiring podcast. I hope you had a lovely day on your birthday 🧁🎂🌸I’m a little nervous to get started but have looked out some fibre I hope will work, but am happy to ‘just give it a go’.
I do not have any books about using hand spun wool so would be absolutely delighted to be a winner😀
Thank you for the birthday wishes ❤️ And I like that you're going to give it a go, even if you're feeling nervous 😊 If you have any questions at all, please be sure to ask, and also, there's no hurry so if you feel like watching for a bit and then spinning well that's fine, too ❤️
Happy birthday! My favourite resource for spinning is Yarnitecture by Jillian Moreno. I like all the information about how to play with colour, and it’s good for techniques as well.
Thank you for sharing that book recommendation! It sounds like a good one ❤
Happy Birthday!!! Found Folk Socks through my public library. Will check it out. ❤
Let me know what you think of it ❤
Happy Birthday, Cary! After you had mentioned homespun handknit previously, I purchased a copy. Such a wonderful reference book. The folk sock book looks like another wonderful reference for the library. I just purchased 3 Shetland sheep last summer to add to my bfl flock. They are so much fun.
Oh that's wonderful! It sounds like you have a lovely fiber flock ❤️
Belated birthday wishes - I hope you had a fabulous day doing all the things which you enjoy doing the most.
I celebrated your birthday by travelling into deepest Lincolnshire and buying my first spinning wheel. The seller said she hadn’t been spinning very much in the last year and wanted to do a bit of declutterring, so I came away with some Shetland fluff and 2 books as well as the wheel and all its gubbins!
The Homespun, Handknit book looks very interesting - I particularly like the hat and mitten pattern you’ve shown in a previous video. If you’ve never come across it “In the footsteps of sheep” is well worth a read in my opinion.
I shall be vicariously enjoying all the sock shenanigans and aspire to being a competent enough spinner to join in next year (if you do this for a 4th time).
Oh that sounds like the perfect day - a new dinning wheel ❤ Thank you for being here!
Hope you had a lovely birthday🌸really enjoyed watching the episode and even looked back to those from 2years ago-thank you. Spinning is all new to me and I spin supported at the moment and so much enjoying it-have several singles on the go soon to be plied to a 2ply. Am slowly building my handspinning book collection and the original book you mentioned -handspun knits(I guess not the exact name) is certainly one I would be interested in and might even look up in our library. Looking forward to this week’s episode:)
Thank you so much, it's very nice to have you here ❤️ I'm glad you watched some of the back episodes, too!
Hope you had a wonderful Birthday!! I have a few spinning books, but neither of those. I will look them up. The handspun handknit one sounds very useful.
I turn to it again and again! In fact, I'd worn out one copy and had to buy a second one 😁
Happy belated birthday, Cary. Those books look interesting. I'm still undecided on fiber choice.
Lol. I can understand that (fiber undecidedness ❤)
Happy Birthday Cary! I am joining the spin along for the first time. I have been missing spinning and this seems like a do-able project to get me re-involved. I am going to make a 3 ply, and was just looking at The Spinners Book of Yarn Designs by Sarah Anderson, because she had done some sock experiments. I think I will try an opposing ply yarn, which in her experiment was longer lasting as well as more elastic. My fiber is a mix of a number of things, none of which is at all elastic. So the opposing ply method is 2 plys spun Z and 1 ply spun S, all plied together S. (Homespun, Handknit is one of my favorite books ever.)
That sounds super interesting, I hope you'll keep us posted on your spin!
Happy Birthday 🎂 I just found your podcast. I've spun some dorset horn for socks and I'm spinning a sw merino nylon. Not my favorite but I have it in my stash so I I started spinning it. I don't have any handspun guide books. I usually ask other spinners my questions. I hope you're having a good day and enjoyed your birthday. I'm off to prep for my son's first birthday and binge your podcasts.
Thank you so much! I'm glad you're here for the spinalong (and happy birthday to your son!)
I wish you a happy birthday. Thank you for getting us started. I loved your comment on how wool is eager to please. Wool does have personality 😊
I am thinking of using some gotland/finull/dog for the cuff as it does not need a lot of strength and some spelsau for the foot. I think I will blend the fibers from the outer and inner coat, but I will have to do some test spinning.
I do not have any books on spinning yarn, but I have a wonderful spinning community to learn from here in Denmark.
Thank you so much! Oh, I love your thought process on your fiber blend and I hope you'll share how that goes ❤️
Happy Birthday Cary. Wishing you a wonderful day and year. I am new to spinning and I use two books for reference. Start spinning everything you need to know to make great yarn by Maggie Casey and Yarn-i-tecture by Jillian Moreno. both books are super helpful.
Would love to have a new book to add to my collection😉
Thank you so much! The Yarnitecture book seems like a very popular one ❤
Hi these are both books I'd love to have, my favorite that I already own is the fleece and fibre source book, but also the spinners book of yarn designs. They are both so helpful when planning a project or how to tackle a particular fibre.
I don't have the Fleece and Fiber source book, but I know it's a very popular one!
This is so exciting! I did download your previous sock video playlist and they've been really helpful. This will be the first time I'm spinning with intention rather than just spinning. I am not focusing so much on my technique as I am the type of wool and your tips for colorwork where socks tend to wear out. Thankyou for all that you are doing! Would love to read the sock book especially. I usually just knit a cuff down vanilla sock that I learned from Meanwhile at the Castle videos.
Yay! Thank you!
Happy Birthday Cary! I just ordered a used copy of the Linda Ligon book right after you mentioned it. It will be my first knitting with handspun reference. I would love the Folk Socks book to be the next book in my library. I also knit my socks toe-up. I’m always converting cuff-down patterns to knit toe-up. And I also always use my own "fit my foot" asymmetric toe recipe, and my favorite short row heel. It's wonderful to wear socks that fit perfectly! harpingJanet
I love that! Yes, I'm the same - my go-to sock for myself is a combination of about three different patterns (but always toe up, lol)
Happy birthday Cary! I maintained my wheel last week, when i discovered your channel and last years preparation video. Mine is a Louet too, a 10C in Scotch tension. Being the rookie, i started practising with my southdown fibre yesterday, spinning singles that i will three ply tomorrow and wash it after a rest for knitting a swatch. My fibre is in a combed top hand dyed by a local artist. Oh, and i love Finn wool and Corriedale! Cant wait for next years spin along, to combine Huacaya with some Finn...but happy with my southdown this year! Will also knit toe up, always prefer. But found a pattern in the Jillian Moreno Yarnitecture, to have an orientation for the WPI i should try to reach and hence numbers... as you say...anyway it is sooo exciting.
I think the Southdown will make great socks ❤
Happy Birthday, Carrie. I do not have any resource books for handspun yarn.. you are so kind to have these giveaways❤️
Thank you Pat!
No I don’t have a reference book so any one would be just great!
Yes, both are good resources 😊
Happy birthday. I will have to find out about that breed. One I don't have in my giant stash 😂
LOL, same here - I'd never heard of it either ❤
I would love to spin with those fibers!
What is your favorite fiber you've ever spun, up till now?
Merino wool from roving
I am really excited about making some homespun socks. I have some icelantic that plan to use
I'm glad you're here! And Icelandic should make lovely warm socks 😊
I currently do not have a hand spun yarn reference book. Would love to win! Happy Birthday! Enjoying your podcast!
Thank you so much! I hope to have the new episode up soon 🤞
Happy Birthday, Cary!! I got some blending finished last night and was able to start spinning today, even though I wasn’t home much. I like “Spin to Knit,” by Shannon Okey - mostly for some technique, but a few patterns work too. I have another knitting with handspun book, but neither that you’re giving away! How generous of you.
Thank you! The book you mention sounds like a good one, too!
I have a few books that I refer to when spinning. "The Fleece and Fiber Sourcebook," "The Spinner's Book of Yarn Designs," and for knitting socks "The Sock Knitting Bible."
I also use RUclips if I'm stuck and need a visual on a particular technique.
I am interested in trying the fiber samples too.
I think we're going to have some available, I'll double check that ❤
Happy Birthday! I hope you have a good one & a great year ahead :) I'm still debating my fibres, but I do have some options! I have 2 different options where I have enough to spin for socks, either a commercial Corriedale top or some farm roving that's a sheep mix of Border Cheviot, Suffolk, and Rideau-Arcott. I've been spinning some of the farm roving already, and it's very lofty - I'm wondering if it might be better to try the commercial Corriedale for socks. But watching your videos (I'm moving through the back catalogue slowly) has made me very curious about trying a wool/alpaca blend! But that might need to wait until the next project.
As I'm spinning with drop spindles, I've checked the Respect the Spindle, and Fleece and Fiber Source Book out from my local library several times, but I haven't picked up any resource books for spinning just yet. I'd like to be entered into the draw, and if I don't win I'll see about tracking some down soon!
It sounds like you have some lovely fiber choices ❤
I am just starting to try spinning for socks to see if they last longer. Any tips would help!
Hi Liz! I'm glad you're here ❤️ Where do your socks wear out the quickest?
@@mywoolmitten heels! Every time I knit with hand dyed yarns I swear I wear them a handful of times before they have holes in them, It's so frustrating. I don't know what I'm doing wrong my stitch gauge is usually right on
Where to I get the fibers if I don’t win???
Hi Madeline! Were you interested in trying the sample fibers?
Yes
I’m watching this a day after it’s published, so happy belated birthday! Can anyone have too many books; not in my mind. How generous of you to offer these books. They are new to me. I do like Yarn.i.tec.ture by Moreno.
Never to many books ❤