Monday, September 12, 2011

DragonflySoars 20110912, Mother Bear In the Round tutorial



This is a step-by-step picture tutorial for how I knit the Mother Bear pattern in the round using toe-up sock techniques. Techniques used are magic loop, Judy's Magic Cast-On, two-at-a-time sock knitting and kitchener stitch. While the video does not go into the details of these techniques, helpful links can be found below or on the side bar.

Note: This version does not match the in the round pattern found on Ravelry, but it's how I knit.



As a side note, my laptop is having a lot of issues so getting the tutorial up was a challenge. I am hoping to podcast in a day or so, I'm sorry I'm late, especially during the challenge!

Please post your finished bears in the thread on our Ravelry board. If you don't have a Ravelry account, email me your pics. There are some wonderful bears over there, many of them from my mom *grin*

3 comments:

1to1 said...

Vicki,

This is an excellent tutorial and is how I make my bears except I stuff it at the end.

Hope you don't mind that I share the link on the Mother Bear Group on Ravelry.

Thanks for taking the time and effort to put this out there!!

Carla

Mei Travis said...

What an awesome video tutorial! I will definitely give the magic loops bears a try!

I like to switch back and forth between flat and circular bears. Keeps me from getting bored, lol!

Still, I avoid seaming flat bears by doing a seaming while knitting technique. If you're ever interested...


Mother Bear - Seaming While Knitting

Katie O said...

your tutorials on this are AWESOME! Great job!