Ole black ‘n’ blue eyes
This week has been a rollercoaster of a week. I am glad it is over.
Today I managed to sleep in, something I desperately needed, and do a load of laundry although I’ve yet to manage to get it hung up to dry. I also cleaned my oven! It needs another cleaning though which tells you that it might not have been all that clean. Other than that, I’ve done a bit of knitting on a new sock even though I currently have two other socks in progress and one I’ve sort of pushed aside ’cause it bores me (I do like the look so I will eventually finish it).
I think I’ll get the heel turned on new sock tonight. I want to be able to do short row heels, but my high instep doesn’t like these — anyone else with a high instep find success with a short row heel? What’s the secret?
New sock is from Sensational Knitted Socks — it’s the Laburnum sock (Ravelry link). Even though the pattern is obscured because of the variegated yarn, I like that the yarn is still visible and the pattern gives it some texture versus plain ol’ stockinette. I am beginning to think that while there are some variegated yarns I drawn to because of the combination of colours, most patterns look shit in them.
The pattern moves pretty quickly, but the k3tog does slow me down. I start my socks toe up on a very long Addi Turbo and have found that I like to actually knit the foot the whole way with magic loop (I haven’t sat down and figured out how the heck you do the heel turn if you have to do a heel flap like I’ve been doing using magic loop), but because of the k3tog I had to change right over to the very pointy Knit Picks DPNs. I tried to find a suitable substitute for k3tog, but no joy. Suggestions?
Oh I am (finally) beginning to catch up on putting together the finished object pages. And I didn’t get the place I wanted up north so I am going up again in a week to look at a handful of places. Hopefully one will suit my needs and that will be sorted because time is moving along very swiftly.
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Comments
Love the yarn your using, for your k3tog, I would do slip 2sts knitwise together, knit next st then pass the 2 slipped sts over.. it doesn’t look the same as k3tog but in my mind neater..
I love knitting magic loop style, do all my socks that way, since buying the knit picks circulars been flying along.. heel flaps and all :)) just leave the instep sts on the middle of cable and knit back and forth on the tips for heel.
Short rows and high insteps, what I do is some gusset increases before starting the short row heel.. alt rows and numbers vary depending on foot.. decrease the extras when your working back around the leg.
I got that tip from here
http://kathrynlovestoknit.blogspot.com/2007/06/patternoutline-for-toe-up-socks.html
Happy Knitting and good luck in finding somewhere suitable to live :)
Pixie
Posted by: Pixie | March 1st, 2008 21:24