Het patroon van de “Sokken van de trui van Kees” is ontworpen als de samenbreisok voor de maand februari 2022 van de Sokkenbreigroep met als thema “Provincie”.

Deze sok is ontworpen als SSOK voor de maand september 2019 van de Ravelry-groep Sokkenbreien. Het thema van deze maand is “Eilanden”. Inspiratie deed ik op toen ik vorig jaar een foto te zien kreeg van mijn nichtje Faith die met haar moeder op vakantie was bij haar oma op Sardinië. Tijdens die vakantie gingen ze naar Desulo. Desulo is een klei...

Sokkenpatroon voor de groep Sokkenbreien.

Deze sokken heb ik ontworpen voor mijn zoon met schoenmaat 14,5/ 49,5. De sokken zijn gebaseerd op de visserstrui van Veere, een stadje in Zeeland, dat eertijds vooral bekend was door zijn wolhandel met Schotland. Na veel speurwerk is er een heuse originele trui gevonden in de “Schotse Huizen”, het museum van Veere.

Visserstruien zijn een eindeloze bron voor het ontwerpen van sokken. Dit jaar was ik voor de tweede keer op de tentoonstelling Propagansey in Noord-Yorkshire. De tentoonstelling wordt elk jaar rondom de tweede zondag van September georganiseerd door Deb Gillanders die onvermoeibaar vecht voor het behoud van de visserstruien. De tentoonstelling ...

Wat een enorm leuke tentoonstelling was dat toch op de historische werf in Arnemuiden. In een van de gebouwen was een tentoonstelling ingericht met allerlei Zeeuwse visserstruien die door veel werk van Anja en Stephanie gevonden zijn. En tot mijn verrassing hebben ze ook uit Yerseke truien gevonden.

Sock of the month design for the Dutch Ravelry group Sokkenbreien

On our holiday tour through England, Scotland and Wales in 2013, I designed several sock patterns based on locally known fishermans ganseys. This specific pattern is based on a picture in a booklet written by Michael Pearson in the 70’s on fisherman’s ganseys in the area.

When my sister in law brought me a very nice skein of yarn from Paderborn in Germany, where she went for a holiday, I knew at ounce what to make out of it. Some months before, I was allowed to take pictures from a beautiful hand knitted baptism gown from a colleague. I

This pattern is part of a series I made during our holiday in 2013 while travelling Northern Yorkshire, Scotland and Wales. I wanted to design a sock pattern for every place we stayed during that trip. We stayed on the coast of Northern Yorkshire that summer with its rich history for hand knitted ganseys. We visited Filey, Robin Hood’s Bay and ...

This pattern was designed in the series Holiday 2013. I intend to design a sock related to every place we will be staying during that trip. In preparing for our trip around the UK a little prince was born: George Alexander Louis of Cambridge. And he was brought outside the hospital carried by his parents and wearing this over beautiful baby sha...

Searching for a new sock project I was thinking of designing a series of socks inspired by the places we hope to visit in our next holiday in the UK.

There is a blog about fisherman’s ganseys from the province of Zeeland, and there I found a story about a sweater from Vlissingen. Vlissingen is a town on the North Sea coast in Zeeland. The stitch pattern with cables that are in a way connected with purled stitches was very nice and so I decided to put it into a sock pattern. I named it Bestev...

Designed these socks for my daughter with shoe size 42.

These socks were designed for me, size 39. This pattern is moderate to difficult.

Doing another design for my daughter with twisted stitches and a beautiful yarn from Loret Karman, called ‘gebaar’ (=gesture). Recovering from my chemotherapy I knitted a pair of socks in 2011 I called “Leben und Liab” (Life and Love) based on old Austrian stitch pattern. One of the stitch patterns I used is called ” Brennende Liab” (Burning Lo...

This cardigan I made for the first birthday of the son of my dear friends. I just made it by head based on the stitch pattern of some socks I’m designing. This stitch pattern is based on a Scottish basic gansey pattern. Cables with moss stitches in between.

My son with big feet, needed a hat for his dito head…

Deze sokken zijn gebreid voor mijn zoon met het zogenaamde puntjesmotief. “Puntjes” is het Urks voor vlaggetjes. Dit motief zat aan de zijkanten van de trui die vroeger in Urk werd gedragen.

These socks are designed based on a pair of slippers I bought on an early morning from an old lady on the streets of Belgrade, while I was walking towards the Danube.

In my quest for hand knitted Dutch fisherman’s ganseys I also find a lot of hand knitted ganseys from other countries than the Netherlands. So I came across a fisherman’s gansey handknitted by mrs. Bishop from Sheringham around 1900 for her husband Tarr Bishop. He was a crabfisherman in Sheringham (Norfolk) at the English east coast above Londo...

Designed these socks for my daughter with shoe size 42.

In a little book about Cornish Guernseys & Knit-frocks by Mary Wright I found a picture of a Cornish fisherman from Porthleven. I liked his sweater very much. Looking at the picture I thought it would be Ktbl and cables, but it turned out to be knitted and purled stitches. So I sticked to my own ideas on Ktbl and cables and named the sock P...

Designing for my son with size 49/ 14,5 a pair of socks based on the knit-frock of the fishermen from Scheveningen, a coastal town in the Netherlands.

Designing for my son with shoe size 14,5/ 49,5 a pair of socks based on one of the two ganseys of the fishermen from Arnemuiden, a fisherman’s town in the Netherlands.

Designing for my son with shoe size 14,5/ 49,5 a pair of socks based on the gansey of the fishermen from Arnemuiden, a fisherman’s town in the Netherlands.

Designing for my son with shoe size 14,5/ 49,5 a pair of socks based on the gansey of the fishermen from Bunschoten/Spakenburg, a fisherman’s town in the Netherlands.

About thirty years ago my mother made this tiny sweater in Red and White and in Blue and White when my twins got born.

Continuing my series af socks based on old fisherman’s ganseys/ frocks I will now take the sweater from Noordwijk, a little Dutch coastal village as a starting point. It’s the only sweater with a quite different stitch in it. The stitch is called Bramensteek/ Blackberry stitch and they think this sweater does not originate like the others from ...

For leftover month I want to knit a Fair Isle sock. This time designed by me thanks to the book Traditional Knitting by Michael Pearson. He wrote a book about the Aran, Fair Isle and fisher ganseys. He described the living tradition in handing down patterns from generation to generation in remote fishing villages in East Scotland, Cornwall, Fai...

These socks are knitted with a texture based on a fishermen’s sweater from a Dutch village , called Maassluis, where they used fish for herring. The picture of fishermen wearing knitted sweaters is seen above and you can find this picture in a book called:

Designing for my son with size 49 a pair of socks based on the knit-frock of the fishermen from Katwijk, a coastal town in the Netherlands.

My Mister Bowler socks were finished that quickly that I ran out of socks on the needle. So I’m designing another textured sock, based on knitted Dutch fishermen’s sweaters from the old days. This pattern is based on the sweaters that originated from the coastal town of Scheveningen. And because a lot of foreign people have difficulties in pron...

This pattern I designed for the first birthday of my little cousin Faith. She likes her pinkies!

These socks are knitted with a texture based on a fishermen’s sweater from an unknown Dutch village where they used to wear bowler hats many, many years ago.

This is the fourth pattern I designed and that’s why I called it Tessera SKL. I designed it originalle for my son Bart with his huge feet size 49,5. Yet it is easily adjustable to any other size. The pattern is inspired by a WW-II-scarf I saw in a reprint (1947) of „Complete Home Knitting Illustrated“

This year I want to knit a personal pattern in the SKA-challenge every month.

Little Miss Michelle was knitted by me as a gift for a pregnant friend of my daughter’s. And once born the baby turned out to be a nice little girl listening to the name Michelle.

This pattern I based on a cardigan I once bought in Ireland.