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Sep. 22nd, 2006 07:33 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
which_chickI adore the purple socks, but they only stay up for about twenty minutes after they've been put on. After that, the 1x1 ribbing in skinny sock yarn stretches out enough that they slide gently down my legs and pool at the ankles. This is unacceptable, particularly considering the amount of time I spent on them and how sexy and warm and soft they are.
While hand-knit knee socks are supposed to stay up on their own, these do not. They do not despite the fact that I carefully measured and shaped and otherwise fucked around with them to get them to fit. They have an inch and a half of ribbing and they still don't stay up. I'm going to add elastic. Of course, the socks are in sort of a purple blend and the elastic is white. Even though the elastic would be on the inside, it'll look like complete hell, natch, so there will be more knitting to cover up the elastic that nobody can see. I've got the wee bit of yarn left over and I'm going to somehow pick up the stitches from the top of the sock and knit about an inch more of fabric and then I'm going to sandwich the elastic between the new fabric (inside the sock) and the original fabric, like threading a drawstring in sweatpants and then I'm going to sew down the new fabric to the old fabric to hold the elastic in place... and hope that it doesn't look like ass.
Considerations:
I do not know how I'm going to pick up stitches from the old fabric. I'll figure that out when I go to do it.
I do not know how many stitches I cast on in the first place. I've lost my notes. Presumably I will be able to figure this out from picking up the stitches anyway, so it doesn't really matter.
I do not know how I'm going to attach the new fabric to the old fabric. I'll think of something, though. I've got a yarn needle and I'm not afraid to use it.
I think it might be a good idea to leave a gap (on the inside) for easier replacing of elastic in the event that it goes bad before the socks wear out. Because, y'know, if I didn't, the elastic would last three washings. If I make plans to be able to replace the elastic, it will outlast the socks.
If it looks like ass, I will be unhappy. I'm already unhappy but I figure I can be just as unhappy without socks pooling around my ankles.
I've forgotten what size needles I used. Probably I did these on ones. I like the fabric that ones make.
(I am stalling.)
And yeah, I was going to be playing with the hat but after I figured out the stitches and after I knit through the first color change at the proper number of stitches, I discovered that I'd pulled a moebius. Fuck. I ripped it out *again* and I'm taking a break from that. I swear the project is cursed. Perhaps I'll approach it again here in a day or so, but right now I'm mad at it. How did I get so far along and not notice a twist in the fabric? I was watching television and not paying enough attention to the knitting.
While hand-knit knee socks are supposed to stay up on their own, these do not. They do not despite the fact that I carefully measured and shaped and otherwise fucked around with them to get them to fit. They have an inch and a half of ribbing and they still don't stay up. I'm going to add elastic. Of course, the socks are in sort of a purple blend and the elastic is white. Even though the elastic would be on the inside, it'll look like complete hell, natch, so there will be more knitting to cover up the elastic that nobody can see. I've got the wee bit of yarn left over and I'm going to somehow pick up the stitches from the top of the sock and knit about an inch more of fabric and then I'm going to sandwich the elastic between the new fabric (inside the sock) and the original fabric, like threading a drawstring in sweatpants and then I'm going to sew down the new fabric to the old fabric to hold the elastic in place... and hope that it doesn't look like ass.
Considerations:
I do not know how I'm going to pick up stitches from the old fabric. I'll figure that out when I go to do it.
I do not know how many stitches I cast on in the first place. I've lost my notes. Presumably I will be able to figure this out from picking up the stitches anyway, so it doesn't really matter.
I do not know how I'm going to attach the new fabric to the old fabric. I'll think of something, though. I've got a yarn needle and I'm not afraid to use it.
I think it might be a good idea to leave a gap (on the inside) for easier replacing of elastic in the event that it goes bad before the socks wear out. Because, y'know, if I didn't, the elastic would last three washings. If I make plans to be able to replace the elastic, it will outlast the socks.
If it looks like ass, I will be unhappy. I'm already unhappy but I figure I can be just as unhappy without socks pooling around my ankles.
I've forgotten what size needles I used. Probably I did these on ones. I like the fabric that ones make.
(I am stalling.)
And yeah, I was going to be playing with the hat but after I figured out the stitches and after I knit through the first color change at the proper number of stitches, I discovered that I'd pulled a moebius. Fuck. I ripped it out *again* and I'm taking a break from that. I swear the project is cursed. Perhaps I'll approach it again here in a day or so, but right now I'm mad at it. How did I get so far along and not notice a twist in the fabric? I was watching television and not paying enough attention to the knitting.
