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pipi_k

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5. Have you actually done socks?

Reply to 2banon (Reply #1)

Wed Apr 2, 2014, 10:31 AM

Apr 2014

If so, then these booties...perhaps written a different way...would probably not be all that hard.

Oh, and about the socks...I've done some on the double pointed needles. Total pain in the ass.

Bought a sock loom...way easier!

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The Booties From Hell...a cautionary tale [View all] pipi_k Apr 2014 OP

Those booties sure look cool. 2banon Apr 2014 #1

Have you actually done socks? pipi_k Apr 2014 #5

I gave up trying.. Didn't know there were sock looms!! 2banon Apr 2014 #9

Try the "magic loop" method YarnAddict Nov 2014 #11

That's not a pattern to give away ... surrealAmerican Apr 2014 #2

Huh... pipi_k Apr 2014 #6

I think all of us have had this happen at least once. knitter4democracy Apr 2014 #3

Hee hee... pipi_k Apr 2014 #7

I bought a bootie pattern from Craftsy YarnAddict Nov 2014 #12

They certainly look adorable, especially SheilaT Apr 2014 #4

Yep, they do pipi_k Apr 2014 #8

It really is outrageous that a pattern, whether free or purchased, SheilaT Dec 2014 #14

I've been tempted to buy that same designer's crocodile stitch hood pattern eShirl Apr 2014 #10

It sounds like it's a pattern that should go Warpy Dec 2014 #13