I want to reach out like you said, and tell you my thoughts… First off I want to thank you got your generous time!! Putting these videos out there for others to learn. Here is why I believe what you said, and why it’s so important. My Grandmother years ago, when I was little wanted to teach me different things, crochet, piano, sewing, quilting and baking. My mother worked a job from 6:30 am to 4:30 pm. She came home tired and could only do cooking before retiring to bed. She raised 4 of us. So, my Grandma picked up many things my mom didn’t have opportunity to do, plus my mom didn’t do many of these things. My Grandma told me this… “ I have a daughter I wanted to hand down all these things to, but none of them appealed to her except the piano and music. She was my only daughter, and you are my only Grand daughter! So, it’s important to me to teach you as much as I can, so that what my mother & grand mother taught me will still be going. Then years from now, you can teach your daughter if you have a little girl, or boy… boys like some of these things too. So , as you learn I want you to pay attention and listen, learn well, so that you will be able to do all these things and make beautiful things like the things in my house that you love so much.” With that I told her how much I loved her and that I wanted to do as much as I could, and learn everything I can! With that she smiled and told me she loved me. She lives to be nearly 102 years old, just shy by 4 months. She was the absolute light of my life, and until her death I listened and learned many things including advice in life and homemaking. That being said, she did not know how to knit, but she taught me crochet. For me knitting is totally knew, many things you talked about are a lil different but I knew basically what you were talking about. I feel like you have a great outline to a wonderful program coming up, and I too am excited in watching all your videos and learning from them all. But because of my Grandma, I feel like handing down these valuable lessons to indeed address starting your own heritage of Love! 💕 and For me, I do consider your time and efforts very valuable. I ask GOD to bless you and all your endeavors! 🥰🧶😇

That was really helpful. The look of the cast-on is important to the overall look of the sock!

I saw how on the first row you avoided a hole by knitting two stitches before the opening. Did you do something similar on the second side to avoid a hole?

Very well explained. I'm doing two socks at a time but for these heels I am doing one at a time. I will use this method from now on! Thank you!

Thanks❤ I have never knitted helical socks before. Now i can’t stop again. It’s so much fun😊

Thank you very much for this video. Very well explained, the image is clear, and the explanation is calm and clear. I really learned this time the shadow wrap short row heel. Thank you!

Thank you so much for this wonderful tutorial! You have cleared up all my stress and I've been able to get past being stuck in my project. I learned to knit socks with heel flap and gusset, but I needed a short row heel for a pattern I wanted to make that had colourwork, and needed a heel that would not interfere with the pattern. I tried a few different things but just ended up confused and frustrated and not ending up back with the right number of stitches and in the correct place in the pattern. Thanks to your tutorial I have beautiful looking heels and the pattern is back on track! Huge sigh of relief, thank you.

Did I miss where you linked the podcast episode of Fruity Knitting? My thumb arthritis is giving me the knitting blues. Thanks!

Great tutorial!!!!!!!!Thank you so much❤

Practice makes perfect. After doing the right heel over3x - the left heel went like a dream from start to finish. Im on the foot now and I’d like you to see my finished socks. How do i do that?

Thank you so much, it’s so amazing the gift you bring us all, sure hope you find in your life it will return tenfold to you and your family with joy and happiness, bless you and yours💕💐 It was you who taught me to knit my first sock, the best teaching out of the many here on KZbin - your classes are far the best, you don’t leave anything out and us lost, you hold our knitting hand all the way 💕 Now I look so much forward to learn “toe up” with different heals. And I look forward to the color work too. I will follow all your classes. Love your work and you are a precious person💐🌻

This is my third pair of socks with this heel and I just love it. It fits great, looks great, and is simple to do with not stitch markers to fiddle with.

YOU ARE AMAZING!!!! LOVE YOUR ENERGY!!! 😍😍😍

Finally I’ve mastered this technique. Once I got it I couldn’t believe how easy it is to do. Thank you Denise

I've recently been knitting so many socks. Someone recommended your tutorial for this heel and I'm so excited to use it in my current sock project. I think this will fit my foot better, is quicker and more fun to knit! TFS 💙 I also purchased your basic pattern to have on hand and support such a fantastic class you've created!

I bought mine. But how do i split the sts for dpns

OMG! You are sooooo precious!!!! Thank you for sharing all your knowledge!!!!

Knitting is magic! Agreed 😍

The Alacrity shorty socks are so pretty!! Good job 👏

Do you ever make socks on 9 inch needles?

Like WOW, I feel so blessed! 😊, What a súper teacher you are, smart, talented & beautiful. Thank you for teaching these classes and putting them in line for free❣️ I have been wanting to learn how to knit a pair socks. 🧦 I taught myself to knit, still plenty I don’t know yet. But I plan on watching every video you have out! You amaze me. May GOD bless you!! ❤

The clearest tutorial I have ever seen on how to knit socks and a fabulous demonstration of the Kitchener stitch.You are a wonderful teacher Denise thank you 😊

I enjoyed your video. The socks are beautiful. I have a sock I'm working on right now I am going to finish toe with the round toe. I was using this technique of knitting I thought I made up myself but I found a video that showed exactly what I was doing and it's called "flicking". It is a very comfortable way to knit. I can also knit a row very quickly. I know a few styles of crochet and knit but I like this flicking. I bought this little crochet ring on Amazon it's about $4 and it is very useful with crochet and I did figure out a way to use it for knitting. It helps with tension and keeps yarn from tangling up into loop needles. I have been knitting socks with the Jeans brand yarn and I love it. Very soft and surprisingly stretchy for being 100 percent cotton. Reasonable price and each ball makes one sock. I don't have much left over.

A wonderful class! 😊

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You did not show how to do create the triple stitches 😩

Being a spinner I am the QUEEN of useless information. LOL

Hello. I've a request please teach how to write a pattern in proper way. ❤

I I have knitted both cuff down and toe up. Regardless of what people say, IMO, there is a difference in the way the pattern looks. Since i am anal, i prefer cuff down. Since the premise is , you can try it on as you go, you can do that with either process, especially with 2 circulars. This demo was certainly helpful.

I am also watching this four years after your posting! And even though I’ve been knitting socks for over 15 years I’m learning new things from you every time I watch you! I love your enthusiasm and joy!

Denise, it’s me again. I don’t know how else to reach you. I had the first half of the shadow wrap heel done but had a mistake on the second half and ripped back to the start. I now have 12 shadow wrap on each side and 10 in the center and they look lovely. One problem. I am on a purl row (when I got to the 11 shadow wraps on each side) I just finished a RS row and I’m on a purl row. the second half of the heel starts with a RS. What did I do wrong and what can I do to correct it? Overwhelmed for sure.

I've just found your videos. I'm just finishing up my first pair of socks ever. I have a fall yarn coming for another pair, is it to late to join the Kal?

I feel a light color is easier to see. I have dark green for the body of the sock and I feel that was not a good choice. I rewatched the twin stitch portion so many times I could speak right along with you but I did finish it. Now I plan to watch at least 10x for the triples before I even pick up the needles. So Excited❤

I’m going to try that Push brace. I have De Quervains syndrome that comes and goes in my thumbs. Knitting and holding a phone doesn’t help, but also at work I am cutting through multi layer compression wraps on patients and that really flares it up. So excited to see you back! I hope your summer was great and that you are totally falling in fall mode! 🍁🍁🍁

Love love this episode…..Alacrity Socks! Love that heel and can’t wait to make these! You ALWAYS inspire me!

What a loving family you have. ❤️ my knitting has expanded so much since watching your videos. I’ve just learned to weave in my ends, knit the 1/1 RC and LC and I’m in the middle of the shadow wrap heel. I’m so happy with it and I never would have attempted it without your patterns and tutorials.👍

Amen . Good teacher .

Thank - You so much .

Hi Denise I am so happy to see you back ! This episode was mindblowing . Thank you so much for sharing you shorty socks experiments this is very informative and they are so beautiful ! A special thank you for mentionning the special increases for toe-up socks by Norman. I have seen several Nimble Needles episodes a while ago but not this one. I will certainly try this technique because I love Toe-up, especially for my husband who loves higher legs for his socks and so I can use the entire ball of yarn without stressing myself. See you soon on Instagram for the Falling leaves socks Kal !

Watch the movies- A Man Called Ove (original) and A Man Called Otto w/Tom Hanks. Great variation and funny!

I’m new to sock knitting and this tutorial was so easy to follow. Thanks, Denise!

Thank you for this video. A tubular cast on was recommended for the pattern I was about to start. I'm sure I could have mastered that cast on but I was not excited to try. Your method in the first half of the video is perfect! I already knew the long tail cast on so it was incredibly easy to modify it to make it stretchier.

Hello! I wonder which Hiya hiya you knit with, Sharp or steel and how long are your needles when you knit socks??? 🤷‍♀️ super good podcast💐

Brilliant methods and brilliant delivery!!! Thank you so much!!!

I can't get the second part of the heel. Is there a clear demo of that part? Please.

Love this sound. I am in the mountains and I love the sound of the wind in the pine trees and the smell to go along with it. So, I am quite torn between the two. Very lovely!

Hooray!!!! Congratulations!! So happy for you. I do love watching you. You make my day!!! Sending you hugs and love

Your channel came up on my Reddit post when asking for a great sock tutorial ! So glad to have found this.

After a good nights sleep and watching the video so closely I have made a 1/1RC. I see that after you separated the stitch and went up between you wrapped the yarn around one stitch and then pulled them both off. 🎉

I’m not getting this. I Knit as if you’re doing a k2 T and then separate the two stitches on the needle and knit the stitch on the right. Are there 2 sts on the needle when finished? Mine does not look like a baby cable. Now if I use a small stitch holder for a cable needle and put stitch one in back, knit stitch 2 and then knit stitch 1 it looks fine. Would doing this with the cable stitch be ok. Is that the same cable?