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    Knit Your Socks on Straight: A New and Inventive Technique with Just Two Needles

    By Alice Curtis

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    About this ebook

    Two-needle socks don’t have to be second-rate! Master this game-changing technique for straight-needle sock knitting.

    Put those clunky double-pointed needles down and learn to knit fabulous socks on your straight needles. Sharing her groundbreaking technique for straight-knit socks, Alice Curtis provides step-by-step instructions for twenty original patterns that feature a variety of yarns and an array of motifs ranging from cables to argyle. The possibilities for creative variations are endless, and each pattern can easily be adapted to any size. Get inspired and use your straight needles to knit stylish masterpieces that will keep your feet cozy and warm.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateJul 16, 2013
    ISBN9781603429108
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    Knit Your Socks on Straight: A New and Inventive Technique with Just Two Needles

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    • 3/5
      Knitting socks is fun, plus, it is about the only way to get socks that fit me - but I hate 'normal' heels using circulars and I do not 'do' DPNs. When I heard this book was coming out I pre-ordered in the hope of some new techniques for an interesting change of pace - and maybe a way of avoiding short row profanity. I am very good at dark mutterings while doing short rows...Pro:* Clear directions, gauge, yarn, measurements - all nicely laid out. The yarn specifications are pretty useless for me since they're US brands, but at least everything I need to pick a substitution is there. (More details of that for novice knitters would have been nice, but there's always Knitty.com and various reference pages on the internet).* Some good notes and explanations on heel and toe types, and making them on two needles.* Variety of sizes from child to adult, and fanciness from plain to cables and intarsia.Con:* only one basic sock format. It is a style which seems to work well, but I was hoping for a selection of methods. Of the 20 patterns listed, only four are front-seamed - lullaby (baby), moccasocks (house boots), cirque du sole (child), carnegie hall - the rest are side seamed, meaning left and right socks have different pattern directions for each sock (not always helpful for fifteen-minutes-between-things knitting breaks).* that being said, it is a good method for doing socks with one seam - just don't forget to carry the pattern with you if you're 'bus knitting'.Overall:* Interesting, and - for those who cannot / will not / do not yet - knit in the round, an excellent introduction to sockery *ahem* without getting flustered by trying to learn to use DPNs or circulars at the same time* It would have been nice to have some other methods (I know of a couple of side to side types, 'turkish' cuff to toe to cuff, top/back/sole, victorian smokers slipper) for comparison, and maybe some information on calculating knee high socks for those who are driven mad by crew socks and get cold calves wearing anklets (its not hard - but it is rarely included), but then again this IS Alice Curtis' method, not a more general 'flat socks' book which the original release made it sound like.
    • 4/5
      I love to knit and was curious to see how socks could be knit on 2 needles. The photographs are colorful and the patterns attractive. The patterns appear clearly written and I am excited to begin knitting....once I decide which style to choose!
    • 5/5
      Knit Your Socks on Straight A New and Inventive Technique with Just Two Needles by Alice CurtisWanted to read this book because 1. I love knitting and 2. I've knit socks but need to improve my skill level and thought this is a different way to knit socks.First are the basics and then different techniques and why they might work for some socks and sometimes other methods look better in the long run.One thing I found most helpful was the discussion of the different heels and the different toe shapes. I've done a few just following a pattern on 4 needles. Like the layout of the patterns and what is needed, gauge and just the cleanness of how it's all laid out in front of you.Love the magnified stitch of each of the socks, and their very colorful playful names for the socks.Most important to me as I can wear a man's size 10 shoe, love the variety of sizes available.Fireside would be my favorite, elegant but simple stitching.For the more challenging there are 5 patterns that are charted. The others are all row by row written instructions.Great book, one for all levels and you can feel great about being able to make socks if you've dreaded the complications of making them. This book makes them an easy thing to do.Comes with abbreviations and diagrammed glossary of how to do some techniques. The spiral bound book also would be great for not losing your place as the book can lie flat.1612120083