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At DIY Weddings we love to share ideas, inpsirations, products and more for the creative bride! If you have a blog post, tutorial, website, or shop that you would like to see featured at Craft Gossip, please add your link to our latest linky party! There were so many great entries last week and I’m highlighting 3 randomly chosen party guests today.

First is a pretty glass pearl necklace with an organza flower embellishment. You’ll find a great tutorial for making your own at Creative Mind.

Love these sparkly pink earrings from the Etsy shop Flower and Bud! This shop offers handcrafted jewelry and accepts custom orders. Perfect as gifts for a bride or her bridal party!

The third featured guest is Stephanie Severin of Ingenious Inkling. She created a gorgeous wedding cake card that looks good enough to eat!

Many thanks to my featured guests and to everyone else who joined our party last week! Time to start the festivities anew, so please join us by adding your link below. I can’t wait to be inspired by your creations!

1. Gwendolyn Cupcake Stand

2. Branding Your Wedding

3. Wedding corset

4. Ring Bearer Pillow

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When I knit socks (which sadly I have not done in a while; need to get a new pair on the needles soon!) I generally stick to pretty simple designs and colorwork that isn’t all that detailed.

Don’t get me wrong, I love a fancy sock, I’m also just pretty lazy and I figure a project worked on size 0 or 1 US needles is going to take a long time even without the added work of intricate colorwork, so why make it more complicated?

But there are definitely socks out there I’d be willing to make an exception for, and I think Tangled Bliss by Annette Schleicher may just be one of them.

If you can’t tell from looking, this is decidedly an advanced knitting pattern. There’s brioche for the cuffs, complex looking colorwork done with the ladderback jacquard technique, multiple charts, and colors changing everywhere.

There are links to tutorials for all the special skills in the pattern, but still it would help to have a handle on these concepts before you get started.

The pattern uses three colors of light fingering weight yarn at a whopping 31 stitches per 4 inches/10 cm (that’s 7.75 stitches per inch/2.5 cm).

Would you believe me if I told you that this pattern was designed for a speed knitting contest? Speed would be the last thing on my mind.

But again, I think all the work for these fancy socks would be worth it. I love hoe the colorwork looks like an old tile floor, and think of the bragging rights when you tell people you made them yourself. (Though of course you did; have you ever seen store-bought socks that look anything like this?)

Best of all, this pattern is available for free on Ravelry, so there’s no reason not to give it a try if you’ve got the skills. If you do, I’d love to hear about it!

[Photo: Annette Schleicher]

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