Odd Sock House

11/06/2026

Lovely yummy summer colours in an all variegated kit!! Perfect for I think 😉

10/06/2026

Here is another of Jen .thing.shapes.us patterns that are I have made into a kit! Such fun to crochet and knit a pair of socks! 🌸

07/06/2026

Pattern - .thing.shapes.us Easy Peasy Ribbed Socks

Yarn - 🧶 kit by .sock.house - 100g of small skeins of various sock yarn ready to make anything scrappy with this pattern included

Oddsockhouse.etsy.com

06/06/2026

06/06/2026

Today is the start of Jen .thing.shapes.us summer long scrappy sock kal!!! My first sock is a whip of my favourite sock pattern of Jen’s - Easy Peasy Socks. If you don’t have the pattern or enough scrappy balls then this kit is available in my shop! Please see the details in my bio. Here’s to a scrappy sock knitting summer!!!!!

21/05/2026

The first piece I have knitted for the knitting and crochet installation for is a simple 4 x 4 rib.
I aim to use all leftovers for this work aka scrappy ☺️

20/05/2026

As some of you know I am running a Knitting and Crochet group in Meanwood, Leeds on Monday afternoons.
Heather and Lorna from have been creating granny square panels for an exhibition at on the theme of magic and more specifically “magic of childhood nostalgia”. The Magic Show exhibition will run from the 4th July - 27th September. Lorna has been crocheting the squares together on Mondays whilst Heather is happily crocheting as many more squares as she can. She has received 216 squares so far!!! Can’t wait to see the outcome 🙂

08/05/2026

Knitting for someone? Read this first.
Superstitions have always been part of knitting.
Here are four you may not have heard before...

1. Leave at least one mistake.

The idea that only the divine can create something perfect can be observed in many cross-cultural craft practices, such as Persian rug making. Historically, deliberate mistakes were added to work to keep knitters safe, which also links to the idea that human work was never designed to be perfect.

2. No knitting on Sundays.

This idea comes from Irish Aran knitters, who worked long hours on highly skilled pieces for very little pay, sometimes only receiving food in return.

3.Trap a strand of hair in your work.

Some believe that trapping a strand of hair in your knitting can bind the recipient to you. This comes from old folk stories, where hair was said to be used in spells or keepsakes to carry part of a person.

4. No knitting for a partner before marriage.

The ‘sweater curse’ is the superstition that
knitting a time intensive gift for a partner prior to marriage can lead to its breakdown. As any seasoned knitter knows, hours invested in a garment aren't always rewarded by the recipient and this theory is emblematic of that.

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