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My first attempt at a sock on my Circular Sock Machine with our own Lincoln Longwool, spun by Curlew Weavers in Wales and hand-dyed with birch bark by yours truly.Lots and lots of mistakes – the foot is too long, the toe isn’t the right shape and there’s a ton of dropped stitches, marked by the lovely alpaca stitch markers from @eweandply (they have a nice “jangle” when they’re side-by-side in a row together like this ).A long way to go to get a decent sock, but to quote Charlie Mackesy…”Look how far we’ve come!”
My first attempt at a sock on my Circular Sock Machine with our own Lincoln Longwool, spun by Curlew Weavers in Wales and hand-dyed with birch bark by yours truly.Lots and lots of mistakes – the foot is too long, the toe isn’t the right shape and there’s a ton of dropped stitches, marked by the lovely alpaca stitch markers from @eweandply (they have a nice “jangle” when they’re side-by-side in a row together like this ).A long way to go to get a decent sock, but to quote Charlie Mackesy…”Look how far we’ve come!”

by | May 30, 2023

Ta Dah!!! Here she is, working (at last!) with a new set of needles, our beautiful Harrison Circular Sock machine (CSM).   She was probably made around 1910 and her proper name is a Harrison Sunnette. She would have provided a small income for the cottage industries that used to exist making socks for local sales.  Many makes of CSM are still in use today. They require a lot of skill and patience as they work on setting up tensions and weights correctly before they will even knit a stitch.   The quality of the engineering is a testament to the skills of a bygone eta.   Work in progress for us to make socks using our own yarn.. hopefully I’ll be able to post a finished sock soon 🧦  #lincolnlongwool #rarebreedsheep #sockmaking #csm #heritagecrafts #campaignforwool

by | Apr 30, 2023

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