In a flap
Jun 14th, 2007 | By woolgatherer | Category: DemiarchiveThe sock is progressing. The leg is finished, with a mistaken added extra 5 rows, and today I knitted the heel flap:
So far it has been straightforward, albeit more than a little fiddly.
After the heel flap… forming the heel shaping. This is, I believe the bit that is known as “turning the heel.” Kind of dead easy but I did misunderstand the SsK2tog instruction, I think - and only got it right on the last two knit rows - so the whole thing might have been neater. But, just look, I turned a heel!
Please permit me to be a little excited about this… after all, it has taken me 54 years to get to this pinnacle of knitting achievement. Well, 50 years anyway - as I didn’t learn to knit until I was 4.
I must say that I love the colour that this yarn is knitting up to. The camera does not show it well and in reality it has more of an aqua/slate/brown hue. I am truly thrilled at the way the colour fell on the heel turning part. It looks really neat.
The next part is foxing me. I think I shall have to try it rather than just read it but it may have to wait. I am committee servicing tonight. Every fibre of my being says “No!” but Minutes must be taken and they have to take precedence to socks - even “first-ever,” milestone socks.
See, all you had to do was follow the pattern LOL! All I’ve got to do is *find* the pattern for my half-done sock, and…
Just wait until you’ve knitted some socks from your own handspun.
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Hooray! Well turned.
You knit fast - that sock is long.
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Gill: some time off, I think - but I do intend to spin once I have got this sock under control. “Second sock syndrome” should certainly prompt a return to the wheel
Carole: it feels as though I am knitting painfully slowly. The sock isn’t all that long, really - I did 78 rows between rib and heel. It measures, so far as I can tell, about 24/25cm from the bottom of the ribbing. I’ve just been sat plugging away with it, and doing very little else. (the rhubarb still needs freezing) I want it finished now, so will probably spend all tomorrow morning on it. I shall start the second sock on the boat next week.
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