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Oct. 23rd, 2007 12:14 amThe HoHI are now at the exciting heel division. Actually, they're a couple of rows after that. Strategically, I've had to rip back once -- starting out with corrugate ribbing is not-so-good if your black and red colors don't match up on the black-n-red of the previous row. Ugly purl bumps. Ugly. So, first row is all knit. I learned that the hard way.
Flat two-color knitting isn't all *that* bad. I only had to learn one new skill (continental purling) in order to proceed. The internetwebmotron had instructions for continental purling with a video and everything, so it was okay. (I hate how stupid my hands feel when I'm trying to teach them to do new things.) I split the stitches into slightly uneven halves. There are eighteen more stitches on the top-of-the-foot part than on the bottom of the foot part, but that should not make a huge amount of difference since there are 49 stitches on the heel and 67 on the not-a-heel. Yes. At the ankle, the damn socks are 116 stitches around. I have fat ankles and I knit small.
There will be pictures of heel flaps as soon as I have enough heel flap to make a meaningful picture. I have five rows (on each sock) but that's not enough yet for a picture.
In other news, the nice people at Embarq sent us a check for fifty thousand dollars and change. Apparently they were not missing a decimal place and they really did mean ten thousands instead of just ordinary thousands. Yay.
Flat two-color knitting isn't all *that* bad. I only had to learn one new skill (continental purling) in order to proceed. The internetwebmotron had instructions for continental purling with a video and everything, so it was okay. (I hate how stupid my hands feel when I'm trying to teach them to do new things.) I split the stitches into slightly uneven halves. There are eighteen more stitches on the top-of-the-foot part than on the bottom of the foot part, but that should not make a huge amount of difference since there are 49 stitches on the heel and 67 on the not-a-heel. Yes. At the ankle, the damn socks are 116 stitches around. I have fat ankles and I knit small.
There will be pictures of heel flaps as soon as I have enough heel flap to make a meaningful picture. I have five rows (on each sock) but that's not enough yet for a picture.
In other news, the nice people at Embarq sent us a check for fifty thousand dollars and change. Apparently they were not missing a decimal place and they really did mean ten thousands instead of just ordinary thousands. Yay.
