Dyet Yarns: Adventures in Fiber » heel http://www.dyetyarns.com Yarn and Fiber Creations for the Active Artist Sat, 19 May 2012 17:55:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Second Sock Saga http://www.dyetyarns.com/archives/242 http://www.dyetyarns.com/archives/242#comments Thu, 11 Jun 2009 14:52:26 +0000 Nuri http://www.dyetyarns.com/?p=242 Read more »]]> Yesterday was a very slow day at work, so I got quite a bit of knitting done between that and waiting for my MMA class to begin. In fact, I stayed up late turning the heel on my second sock because I wanted to get through to the straight part of the leg. Naturally, I knit the exact same number of rows on the foot of the second sock as I knit on the first sock. After completing the heel flap, I tried the new sock on.

It was an entire inch too long.

This is what happens when you trust counting and don’t try it on! Apparently I was knitting the second sock significantly looser than the first one. Also, the toe felt funny. After hemming and hawing about whether I could rip partially back and fix it, I decided to just rip out the whole thing and start over. Five hours of knitting down the drain, and because I stayed up last night my hands are too sore to knit today. Ah well, it’ll get finished eventually.

At least I have something else to do while I wait! Last night I found (I had forgotten their existence) some cones of lovely yarn that my mother had given to me and started winding it up into 50 g hanks. I have some brand new heavy lace/light fingering weight Shetland wool as well as a few different lace weight silk/wool blends. I also have a lovely recycled white wool/cashmere blend waiting to be colored. They will be fun to dye!

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I made a heel flap! Now that I can do it, I’ll be using this a lot. Short-row heels are fine, but they don’t seem to fit the back of my ankle very snugly.

Wendy and me with my lonesome heel flap.

I got a copy of Wendy’s book, Socks from the Toe Up, about a week ago, and it is chock-full of good techniques and cool patterns. I can’t wait to start them! I will have to wait just a little though; I started knitting Wendy’s Rivulets socks on Saturday after the class. After all, I dyed yarn specifically for them! The picture is a bit cruddy because it’s using my camera phone…the yarn is actually a kind of sea-blue color with purple speckles. You’ve seen it in previous posts.

toe of a Rivulets sock in my Rivulets colorway yarn

I had to do a little math, since my gauge was 6 stitches/inch and the pattern calls for 8, but it looks like it’s working up just fine. I am getting pretty good at adjusting patterns for gauge since I am apparently a yarn rebel. Of course, the real test will be turning the heel. Will it fit right? I guess we’ll see!

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