Welcome! I'm Katie, so glad to have you here. This channel is all about my yarny creations, mostly knitting, and let's be honest...mostly socks. I do other crafts as well you can find me on my other channel Katie Crafty Mom where I mostly have sewing tutorials. You can find me on Instagram as KatieBugKnits and KatieCraftyMom On Ravelry as KatieCraftyMom here's my link to places you can find me. I also have a SpoonFlower Shop with designs that I have created for printing on fabric.
Just binged watched all your episodes and subscribed. I'm a knitter, crocheter, spinner, weaver. Right now I have been making crochet nests out of acrylic yarn and donating them to my local wildlife rescue.
Awe that’s awesome. I knit and crochet. I really want to get into spinning I just haven’t yet. Weaving is awesome but I’m just admirer of it for now. Lol The nests idea is awesome!
*** Is the Paton Kroy Mid century stripe soft or wooly feeling ? Thinking of making a hat or fingerless gloves instead of socks…Love the way it worked up… Mary Maxim is having a clearance on some of the Paton Kroy colors $3.99. And the regular are $5.99
I'm loving your makes. I have honestly given up on the Kitchner stitch and now I only do the Finchley graph to close the toes on my socks. Roxanne Richards (do you watch her channel?) found the Finchley graph in an old book from the 1800s and she shared it on one of her videos.
Your dog and the pollinators around the grape vines were so lovely to look at. I think you will love the West Yorkshire (pronounced York-shur) Spinners wool - it is very sturdy without itching and lasts for years! They do a lovely range of single colours too, for cuffs, heels and toes. I tend not to bother with jumpers and cardis - I prefer a long sleeve linen dress with a shawl to wrap around, along with my hand knitted socks and always my Crocs 🐊. Great podcast as always. Jinny - UK
Thanks yeah the pollinators are actually flying around my catnip that so silly I didn’t even mention. Silly me…. I just love to see the life in the garden. Shawl’s are lovely. I do want to make more of those too.
❤❤good to see you again ,,,,🎉🎉 Love the kroy stripes,,,,have that color,in my stash,,,,must use it for a gift socks,,,🎉 We have mostiques too ,,,,,what a pain,,,, Love that u sit outside,,,, Take care, Elaine ❤️🏠
Omg i just found your channel and i love it. You look so kind and friendly, and your projects and garden are so beautiful (so are you). I'm also a swiftie and im planning on doing that dress because i love crochet. i'm also trying to get into knitting but im not so patient for that. i'll defnitly keep watching your videos :))
Hello from the Fox Valley. Loved seeing all the socks. I hope your garden is still doing well. We lost what was left of our garden last week due to flooding. We received more rain today and are under flood warnings...sigh. Hope you are surviving the heat.
Thank you so much for such a lovely podcast and your thoughts on knitting socks - I love sock knitting as well :) Your rainbow colorway looks absolutely amazing! I look forward to your next episode, greeting from Denmark
Another Wisconsinite here! Thought I recognized that accent😉😂😂😂 Just stumbled on your podcast😊 and I'm so happy I did! Just learned to knit socks about 2 years ago and have become obsessed!!! They are THE best for our frigid WI winters❤️❤️. I also started the tradition of gifting them to my adult daughters for Christmas - this will be the 3rd year😊 And they always end up sending me pics of themselves wearing them & saying how much they love them!!! Thanks for taking the time to share your knitting!!
Love the back drop,,,, 😍 I am in southern Ontario,,just watched all ur podcasts,,,love them,, You are sweet,,,great voice,,,lots of socks 🧦🧦🧦🧦 perfect,,, See u soon, ELAINE 🏠💗
Just another thought, size down to a smaller needle for knitting your socks. The more dense the fabric, the less possibility of getting holes. I use exclusively 1.5, 1.75 and 2.0 mm needles, have never gotten any holes in to 20+ years that I have been knitting socks. I have knitted hundreds of socks over the years.
You can take the heels and toes out and just add afterthought heels and toes with a nylon, silk or mohair added to the yarn. If using a no nylon sock yarn, just pick up a strand of mohair to work in with your socks.
I’m British, so the sound of rain is the almost constant background to my life 😁 Make sure than when your lilac bush is well established, you cut it way down in the autumn to get plenty of new growth and flowers. I would be a bit reticent to have freely planted mint - unless you like it with everything. new potatoes with mint sauce are beautiful 😋 I am really enjoying your podcasts - and your dog is a beauty 🐾🐾 Jinny - UK
Hi KatieBug. New subscriber here. Loved this podcast and your projects look beautiful! As for your Flax sweater, I think you should finish it. It’s gorgeous and you knit a lot of love into it I imagine. 💕
Curious bc I love them, for the knee high socks when do you start decreasing from 80st down to 64 and at what intervals? I’d love to make those! Yours are amazing! Thanks!
Good question. I will talk more about it hopefully in the next podcast. Hopefully I’ll have them finished before then. I know I did decreases I’m going to have to look and see if I made any notes on it.
Hand knit socks have to be repaired too much work in them to even think of throwing them out,but then I don’t mind repairing socks even bought ones. I made a pair that was too short in the foot just unpicked the toe and reknitted a new toe in a different yarn, the only person who sees the toe of your socks is you so go fix that pair that you like.
Just discovered you and greatly enjoy seeing all your socks. I, too, am a first year Summer Sock Camper and having loads of fun knitting through stash sock yarns and using up bits and bobs to make scrappy socks. About your shorties that have the different ribbing sequence from cuff to foot: just tell yourself "It's a FEATURE, not a bug!" 🙂
Hello from Northern Wisconsin! Thought I recognized that gray sky! 😂😂 I just found your podcast and will have to go catch your 2 previous ones as well. Just wanted to say that there definitely are patterns for worsted weight socks and they make lovely boot socks for those of us up here in the cold! 😉 I make each of my family (7 children + hubby) a pair for Christmas every year. They are very long wearing despite not having any nylon. I have been making them for more than 10 years and the first ones are just getting holes. I also think starting with worsted is a great way to learn to do socks - so much less fiddly than fingering weight - just my 2 cents. Anyway, one of my favorite worsted weight patterns is Winter Socks for the Family by McGehee Textiles. Happy knitting!! 🥰
