Oct. 23rd, 2007

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The 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.
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Also, I'm up for suggestions on what to do after I'm done with the HoHI. (No colorwork, please. I will need a break from that.) I have interesting yarn for plain socks and plain yarn for interesting socks. Anyone? Bueller? I don't like short socks very well, so all sock suggestions should bear in mind that they'll wind up going to just below my knee no matter what the pattern says. Also, patterns are more like guidelines in my world.
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