Two of a kind
Sep 18th, 2008 by knittingclub in knitting
ThujaYarn: Dark Horse Yarns Fantasy (50% nylon, 50% acrylic; worsted weight)Color: 39 (variegated green)Needles: US 6 dpnsStitches: 44Miracles do happen. After a thirteen month hiatus, I finished this match of socks. The curious thing is that I made the moment one in two days, more or less. I even *gasp* enjoyed it and understood what the sock knitting maniacs out there like. You love who you are.
The break illustrated that I have progressed as a knitter. The first sock (on the remaining in both of the above pictures) has a looser fit and isn't knit quite as well. It looks but a little wonky, like an exaggerated version of the Platonic sock ideal, while the moment is nearer to the genuine form.
On the 1st day of my fall to sock knitting, I knitted the cuff, leg, and heel flap. The heel flap looked slightly off, as though it were not extensive enough, but I attributed this to knit more tightly. I made an error while turning the list and bravely (and somewhat stupidly) removed the needle and frogged this section as good as the flap. Due to all the slipped stitches, I couldn't figure out how to get them back on the needle. Granted, it helps if you rip out a stitch at a time instead of the whole row, but my madness was an unexpected blessing. For you see, I had misread the directions. The rule for the heel stitch goes like this:Row 1 [RS]: [Sl 1, k1] to endRow 2 [WS]: Sl 1 , p to endI had the brilliant idea that the bracket-free second row was alleged to be knit like the bracketed first row. This was a deliberate choice despite what the directions clearly show. This was responsible for my slightly narrower heel flap. I had a fiend of a time getting the stitches onto the needle and wasn't sure they were all off the proper direction, but it all worked out for the best.
On both socks I have holes under the ankle. It's where I'm supposed to clean up the stitches. Note to self: pick them up nearer to the last stitch on the working needle. Having encountered this problem on the first sock, I thinking I had been more attuned to this problem. At least the trap is on the other side, which way that I can cover the holes to some degree by wearing the foremost one on my left foot and back on my right.
My biggest improvement is eliminating the run on the tail of the foot. I consider you can do it out on in this picture, especially if you tick and magnify it. I focused on the tension when moving to each new needle and pulled the beginning and last stitches tight. My tightness got the best of me on the cuff as it could bear to be a looser, but that's something easy to fix in the future.So there they are, my first socks. They're far from perfect, but I'm proud that I was capable to learn myself. When I made the foremost one, I didn't mean I could do it. Calculating the proper stitch count remains an issue, but at least the real work involved is something I can manage. Who knew?
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