Priscilla Wild's recipe for the easiest short row knitted heel out there! Download the Lifestyle Toe Up Socks knitting guide and bookmark this page to review how to videos for each stage of sock making: pulsh.blogspot.com See a variation of this heel using stitch markers to help identify the gap between the held and the active stitches. pulsh.blogspot.com

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Demonstration: how to use the Continental "pick" method with your left hand and the English "throw" method with your right hand to knit two colors at once.

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Video two of the No Muss No Fuss Short row heel demonstration. This is an variation of the short row heel that uses stitch markers. See the first video in this series: www.youtube.com In this video, stitches that were short rowed in video 1 are added back into the work. End of the video includes instructions that are applicable if you are doing a colorwork sock.

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Tuulia gives a quick demo how to pick up stitches and knit creating a seamless line of stitches. So simple, wish I had thought of it!

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Handspinning technique demonstrated: Sarah Anderson's "Wrap and Roll" Plying technique.

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Doug Dodd demonstrates how to disassemble and reassemble the Pocket Wheel. The Pocket Wheel is Doug's design.

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The pocket wheel is the invention of Doug Dodd. A compact spinning wheel that weighs little and spins like a dream. Sarah Anderson, spinner and independent dyer, demonsrates the pocket whee. Note: this video is silent.

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This is one of two videos that show you how to knit the short row heel without yarn overs, using stitch markers to remind you of the separation between the "held" stitches and the "active" stitches on your needle. This video focuses on the short row section of a sock heel. See this video for the last half of making this heel: www.youtube.com

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Poor Miss Finch, aka Laura, demonstrates how to create "wolf" novelty yarn per Judith Mackenzie McCuin's method.

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Stepping up to the Ravelry challenge, I videotaped how I knit and purl. See the challenge at: www.ravelry.com

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Sheep to shawl demonstration at the Evergreen State Fair, September 6, 2009. A 6 month old sheep was painted with safe dye and dried for 4 days. In this video she is shorn of her locks. Then many hands picked apart the wool, carded the wool, spun the wool then wove the wool into a shawl in a demonstration that lasted from 11am to 4pm.

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See my blog entry about how to make a vision board: pulsh.blogspot.com

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Elizabeth Prusiewicz of Knit Knot Studio yarn shop in Portland, Oregon shows us how to do an applied I-cord. See the Web site at: knitknotstudiopdx.com Recorded by Charisa Martin Cairn 24 Jan 2009

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golden retriever and little ones

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Shawn Colvin bids us "Goodnight"; 17 October 2009

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Sheep to Shawl demonstration at the Evergreen State Fair, September 6, 2009. Monroe, WA

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