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May. 2nd, 2006 08:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
which_chickBecause I feel certain all ya'll have not heard enough about the socks, here is more about them, including how I made them! It's a thrill-a-minute over here, you betcha. There is a (sizeable) picture. Clickit! You might learn something...
I used Mountain Colors Bearfoot in color Wildflower and size 1 needles. I cast on a hundred stitches and worked that in a 1x1 ribbing until I felt good about it. Then I switched to stockinette and added a stitch every ten for a total of 110 stitches. I picked the middle of the (arbitrarily selected) back and put in a single purl stitch to mark the center back so that when it came time to do the decreases I would be able to do them symmetrically without having to count all the fucking time. And then I knit (mostly) and purled (one stitch per round) and decreased (k2tog or ssk, depending on direction) some, though never more than once every three rounds, and tried on the sock and knit and purled and decreased and tried on and made my way ankleward. At the ankles, I split the stitches into half-1 and half+1 so that I could continue to center things along the centered purl stitch down the back. I knit even until the heel flap was long enough to go to the ground. Then I did the heel decreases (k2tog or skpsso, depending on which side) until they were all done and I ended with a purl row. (I stopped putting in the "back seam" purl stitch at this point because it would have made a line along the bottom of my foot and I betcha that would piss me right the hell off.) Then I picked up stitches along the first side of the the heel flap, knitted across the "top of the foot" stitches, and picked up an equal number of stitches on the other side of the heel flap. The picked up stitches form the heel gussets on either side of the heel flap. I picked up 22 stitches on each side of the heel flap -- two per every three stitches of heel flap plus an extra one in the top corner to avoid gappage. Normally they suggest you pick up one per every three stitches but I like the look of two for every three better. It's one of those things where there's some slop for personal taste. Then I went forward toward the toe, decreasing every other round (k2tog or kskpsso, depending on direction) on the heel gussets so that the sock would fit my foot pretty well. I have not yet stopped on the gusset decreases, but I'm close to being done with them.
I don't know why I switched decreases from ssk to kskpsso but I did. It might be due to the directions I am not following. I like the way the kskpsso looks on the heel decreases and it's not bloody obvious in the gusset decreases so I'm okay with this.
Note: While only one sock is shown in the picture, there are two and they are exactly the same amount of done.
I used Mountain Colors Bearfoot in color Wildflower and size 1 needles. I cast on a hundred stitches and worked that in a 1x1 ribbing until I felt good about it. Then I switched to stockinette and added a stitch every ten for a total of 110 stitches. I picked the middle of the (arbitrarily selected) back and put in a single purl stitch to mark the center back so that when it came time to do the decreases I would be able to do them symmetrically without having to count all the fucking time. And then I knit (mostly) and purled (one stitch per round) and decreased (k2tog or ssk, depending on direction) some, though never more than once every three rounds, and tried on the sock and knit and purled and decreased and tried on and made my way ankleward. At the ankles, I split the stitches into half-1 and half+1 so that I could continue to center things along the centered purl stitch down the back. I knit even until the heel flap was long enough to go to the ground. Then I did the heel decreases (k2tog or skpsso, depending on which side) until they were all done and I ended with a purl row. (I stopped putting in the "back seam" purl stitch at this point because it would have made a line along the bottom of my foot and I betcha that would piss me right the hell off.) Then I picked up stitches along the first side of the the heel flap, knitted across the "top of the foot" stitches, and picked up an equal number of stitches on the other side of the heel flap. The picked up stitches form the heel gussets on either side of the heel flap. I picked up 22 stitches on each side of the heel flap -- two per every three stitches of heel flap plus an extra one in the top corner to avoid gappage. Normally they suggest you pick up one per every three stitches but I like the look of two for every three better. It's one of those things where there's some slop for personal taste. Then I went forward toward the toe, decreasing every other round (k2tog or kskpsso, depending on direction) on the heel gussets so that the sock would fit my foot pretty well. I have not yet stopped on the gusset decreases, but I'm close to being done with them.
I don't know why I switched decreases from ssk to kskpsso but I did. It might be due to the directions I am not following. I like the way the kskpsso looks on the heel decreases and it's not bloody obvious in the gusset decreases so I'm okay with this.
Note: While only one sock is shown in the picture, there are two and they are exactly the same amount of done.
