Tag: any gauge socks

Stalled

I’m stalled right here.

Heritage Wave

I’ve worked out my Any Gauge Sock, which is worked Toe Up with a Short Row Heel. I’ve even made a project page for it. No exact pattern for this one. I’ve already knit two other pairs which turned out really well.

Left is Rebel by King Cole and right is Timber Yarns.

I want to do a video but I’m having some difficulty winding myself up to do it. The blue sock above and the toe for the second sock are set up for the video, and there they sit. I can’t work on the second sock because I need it for the video. Argh!

Do you get stalled on a project? What works to get you going?

In the meantime I finished the Shima Mini Shawl.

I think the technique for carrying the yarn up the centre spine of this shawl is going to help with my next project.

I can’t wait to see if it works.

Cheers,  Deb

Any Gauge and Gauge-free patterns by Deb

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Sock Idea in progress

Here’s my Catch Up for the week.

The sock idea I talk about in the podcast has progressed a tiny bit since then. The video was yesterday after all. LOL.

Timber Yarns, twin sock sets (2 x 50g balls with the same stripes).

I tried these on and they are tight around the ankle, at the heel. I need a little more room there. Some people do and some people don’t. Which are you? You probably know your own feet as a sock knitter.

This is a short row heel on half the stitches of my 60 stitch sock. In my case, for this sock, that is 30 sts.

I usually do a short row heel on 60% of the total sock stitches, which would normally be 36 sts for the heel on a 60 stitch sock. That gives me enough room around my heel. I just took this sock, with a heel worked over 36 sts, off my foot! You can see a much deeper heel.

I think you can see that the deeper heel gives me more space around my ankle. So I ripped back the totally finished lovely heel, sigh, and an extra inch of the foot. (This is what makes designing sooo much fun!)

To rework for more ankle room, with 1 inch to go before I start the heel, I worked 4 sets of increases on either side of the top of the foot (8 additional stitches on the top of the foot).

Then I worked the heel again on 50% of the original total number of sock sts (30 sts).

Definitely more room. I tried them on and it’s much more comfortable (except for all those dpns, of course). I decreased the extra stitches away, back to the original 60 sts, as I worked the leg. This is sort of an increase gusset and then a decrease gusset. This seems to be working. Hoorah!

Cheers, Deb

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