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Atypical Construction: fail, fail, fail

by JoAnna Moskal January 18, 2025

My 2025 sock knitting started off on the wrong foot (sorry). Four times! It started off on four wrong feet. A quadruped of wrongness.

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Atypical construction: Squircle

by JoAnna Moskal January 11, 2025

Lots of knitters were interested in the Squircle socks I made this summer. They have an unusual construction, but it doesn't compromise their fit at all! Here are some of my observations from knitting this atypical pattern.

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1-2-3 socks

by JoAnna Moskal January 08, 2025

Want some Sockspiration? Here's an easy pair that uses a stripe and a solid, and is a very simple twist on whatever vanilla pattern you love best.

Also, I'm knitting socks from A-Z in 2025. I hope. Well, that's the plan anyway. I hope you'll discover some patterns you love along the way!

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Join us for the story "Snowed in at Sugarplum Cabin"

by JoAnna Moskal November 28, 2024

December starts this weekend! And Bill has been working on a 24-part story to accompany this year’s Battvent…but you can still join us, even if you...

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2023 Battvent is coming!

by JoAnna Moskal October 13, 2023

Battvent 2023: Bundle Up will be open for preorders starting at 8 pm Eastern TONIGHT (Friday, Oct 13)! There are new details for this year, includi...

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Happy Holidays! Battvent Poem 2022

by JoAnna Moskal December 24, 2022

A dramatic reading of a new Christmas Classic.... The Battvent poem for 2022!

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Stash Cranking Misfit skein sale event!

by JoAnna Moskal January 16, 2021

From now until we shut down the cranking service for the summer, any order of 5 or more tubes with of sock tube cranking will get a free skein o...

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More on machine gauge - now with a 54 needle cylinder!!!!! (Sport weight socks!!!)

by JoAnna Moskal January 16, 2021

Woohoo!!!! We just got in our brand new 54 needle cylinder for our Earlbacher Gearhart Speedster Circular Sock Knitting machine! What this means fo...

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What gauge for my sock tubes???

by JoAnna Moskal October 29, 2020

A lot of people aren't sure what the correct gauge is for their sock tubes, or have questions about how gauge is changed on the machine... Measurin...

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