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The Twisted Sisters Sock Workbook
by
Lynne Vogel
With simple directions and tips on how to dye, paint, spin, and knit yarn to create authentic socks, this book offers all the information necessary to fashion socks with personality. Included are innovative patterns and tips for knitting socks with customized fit--even for all ten toes. Safe and easy directions are given on dyeing yarn from pour-dyeing methods to dyeing wi...more
Paperback, 96 pages
Published
October 1st 2002
by Interweave Press, LLC
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Excellent primer for those interested in preparing and dyeing fiber. An enlightening discussion of ways to spin a dyed roving to end up with many different looks in your yarn follows.
The book wraps up with a thorough discussion of sock knitting. Why choose this heel over that? Which edge cast-on is better.
If you buy one book to learn this - this is the one to buy.
The book wraps up with a thorough discussion of sock knitting. Why choose this heel over that? Which edge cast-on is better.
If you buy one book to learn this - this is the one to buy.
I really like it but I wish they had more patterns. I think for the scope of what it tries to cover it's too small. It needs to be about 4x as thick. BUT it's inspiring and pretty pretty. Someday I'll master the drop spindle and someday I'll buy the 25 packs of Kool-Aid to dye my yarn.
Not really crazy about this one either. Spends a lot of time on spinning and dying your own yarn. What patterns there are really didn't interest me and really weren't patterns per se. There was a basic cuff down and toe up sock pattern and then variations on different techniques.
This is one of my all-time favorite resources for spinning. It clearly shows pre-drafting and spinning methods in a way other books don't (especially the pre-drafting) and is accessible to beginners. Discusses spindle-spinning rather than wheel-spinning.
Not a beginning knitters book on socks that's for sure. Most of the book is about dying and spinning in order to create yarn to make colorful socks. I found the basic sock pattern too difficult to understand.
Will probably come back to this book if/when I ever start knitting socks. While the sections on color & dyes are more oriented to synthetic dyes, the section on spinning is useful, especially on managing color.
There are many other books out there better for socks HOWEVER, this book is a good resource for spinning and dying.
Wow.
Yeah, I can't do anything in this book. But if I could, this would be an excellent way to learn.
Wow.
Yeah, I can't do anything in this book. But if I could, this would be an excellent way to learn.
Wow.
This book inspired me to learn to spin and dye.
Good book, has lots of techniques.
A nefarious and delightful gang of knitters, spinners, and dyers, who congregate at the Black Sheep Gathering in Eugene every June. The book is well-organized, with good photos. I've made a pair of socks from here, the ones with the ruffled cast-on. I'm a sock newbie, still amazed at the turning of the heel...
very fun! can't wait to try dying and spinning my own yarn! ahh...so many things..so little time!
am studying this book on how to spin better colorways with hand dyed yarns. Excellent resource.
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