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If you love knee-high socks, you know there are never enough knee-high patterns to keep your needles going. Inside this book, youll find resources to fulfill your every knee-high need. From casting on at the knee to grafting the toe stitches, Barb Brown will lead you step-by-step through creating a fabulous pair (or pairs!) of knee-high socks.
Inside Knitting Knee-Highs youll find patterns for:
- Intricate colorwork inspired by ancient tapestries and modern-day indie dyers
- Twisting and twining cables from knee to toe
- Lovely lacework that looks delicate but can stand up to the wear and tear knee-highs take
- Beautifully textured stitches inspired by beloved knitting traditions
- Warm and cozy pairs created from sport and DK weight yarns
Once you dip your toe into Knitting Knee-Highs, your sock knitting will never be the same!
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Knitting Knee-Highs
Sock Styles from Classic to Contemporary
Barb Brown
Knitting Knee-Highs: Sock Styles from Classic to Contemporary Copyright 2011 by Barb Brown. Manufactured in China. All rights reserved. The patterns and drawings in this book are for the personal use of the reader. By permission of the author and publisher, they may be either hand-traced or photocopied to make single copies, but under no circumstances may they be resold or republished. It is permissible for the purchaser to create the designs contained herein and sell them at fairs, bazaars and craft shows. No other part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means including information storage and retrieval systems without permission in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer who may quote brief passages in a review. Published by Krause Publications, a division of F+W Media, Inc., 4700 East Galbraith Road, Cincinnati, Ohio, 45236. (800) 289-0963. First Edition.
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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Brown, Barb
Knitting knee-highs: sock styles from classic to contemporary / Barb Brown.
p. cm.
Includes index.
ISBN 978-1-4402-1369-4 (alk. paper)
eISBN 13: 978-1-4402-1827-9
1. Socks. 2. Knitting. I. Title.
TT825.B758 2011
746.43'2 dc22
2010035810
Editor: Jennifer Claydon
Designer: Corrie Schaffeld
Production coordinator: Greg Nock
Illustrator: Karen Manthey
Photographer: Ric Deliantoni
Stylist: Monica Skrzelowski
Makeup artists: Cass Brake and Nicole Deitsch
F+W Media, Inc. would like to thank Baker Hunt Art and Cultural Center for generously sharing the beautiful location shown in this book.
Metric Conversion Chart
To convert | to | Multiply by |
Inches | Centimeters | 2.54 |
Centimeters | Inches | 0.4 |
Feet | Centimeters | 30.5 |
Centimeters | Feet | 0.03 |
Yards | Meters | 0.9 |
Meters | Yards | 1.1 |
This book is dedicated to Margre the Elisabeth (Colvin) Wolczuk and Samuel Wolczuk, who raised me to believe I could do it. And to Carol Sulcoski, who showed me how to do it. And to Eric Thompson and Omar Farooq, who made sure I was here to do it.
But most of all, to Glenn, my best friend, who put up with me while I did it.
With special thanks to the generous volunteers who knit their fingers to the bone helping with all the samples:
Janet Anderson, Lynne Anderson, Jennifer Carter-Morgan, Wendy Cheung, Mary Alyce Heaton, Birgit Hoeger, Caroline Hyndman, Karen Klute, Julie Malin, Trisha Paetsch, Jenni Reiz, Virginia Sattler-Reimer, Marg Sjostrom, Kirsten Snider, Caroline Sommerfeld, Kim Whitley and Katherine Wowk.
And to:
Celeigh Wool of Millet, Alberta and Wool Revival of Edmonton, Alberta for letting me shamelessly use their shops for a meeting place, and allowing me to raid their stock in emergencies.
Barb Brown is a designer and life-long knitter living in Alberta, Canada. She is also the owner of Wild Geese Fibres, an online business specializing in natural fibre yarns and spinning fibre.
She teaches knitting, designing and dye workshops at yarn shops and community colleges.
Barb's designs have appeared in Vogue Knitting, Yarn Forward, A Needle Pulling Thread, and Twists and Turns, as well as in the book Knitting Socks with Handpainted Yarn by Carol Sulkoski (Interweave).
Many people look at a pair of hand-knit knee-highs and, while they love the look of them and would dearly like to own a pair, are frightened off by the amount of knitting that seems to be required. However, there really isn't a lot more knitting involved in a pair of knee-highs than there is in a pair of socks. Think about it: The leg on a pair of ladies' socks is usually between seven and nine inches. The leg on a pair of knee-highs is only around thirteen inches. That is a difference of just four to six inches. If you were knitting the sleeve of a sweater, you'd barely be started! For a little bit of extra knitting you get an awful lot of satisfaction.
Knee-highs are the perfect garment for showcasing your skills and trying out a new technique. You may never have knit lace although you love the look of it. A sweater or shawl can be daunting: So many stitches! So many rows! But in the time it takes to knit a pair of knee-highs you can master a new technique, and you will have knit enough to know whether it is something you want to do again (or if you would rather cross the Himalayas on a yak in winter wearing only a bathing suit). Either way, you will own a garment to be proud of.
Socks are great for this as well, of course, but don't look nearly as spectacular. Imagine attending your next knitting group or fiber festival wearing perfectly knit knee-highs. Quite often fiber-related events are held in the warm weather, when a sweater would be too hot to even contemplate. Knee-highs with a skirt, shorts or capris are just perfect!
In days gone by people attending festivals wore their very best clothing, including beautiful and complex hand-knit stockings. A bride knit them for her wedding, and for her husband. Knitters did their best work on these special pairs, showcasing their skills. Family members and sweethearts alike wore them with pride. Even after cheap machine-made socks could be easily bought, the fancy work still came out to play on special days.
Modern times and customs gradually spread, and many people stopped these traditions. These beautiful garments languished at the bottom of trunks and the back of drawers. Fortunately, interest in these arts has revived, and become stylish once more. Knitters can again be a part of these traditions.
Knit knee-highs for yourself, your family or your friends. Knit a pair of kilt hose, even if you don't wear a kilt. Do you have a secret longing to wear something wild and crazy, or frilly and lacy? Frivolous knee-highs hidden under slacks or jeans are a harmless secret vice.
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