It is still a long time befor the next sock madness (and still pondering if I’m gonna take part again), but somehow I have to keep challenging myself this year.

This was the sock that threw me out of the sock madness last year. It was ok, but waaaay too late.And, as all stranded socks, they barely fit me. Even though I used ladderback jacquard.

As I was knitting those socks, completely charted, I already wondered if they could be completely double knit. And with lots of yarn left from my LOTR-items, I somehow just cast them on.

Unfortunately I found no way to double knit the border so that each side has a different colour. So I gave up on that and just made a plain small 6 needle cuff. From there on, I just double knit the chart.

The first challenge was the heel flap. I passed that by pretty easy by knitting it just as the gazillion double knit squares I did . Worked like a charm and the stitches were easy to pick up.

Second challenge was the heel turn. For the decreases I just swapped the first ‘backside-purl’ with the next ‘frontside-knit’, then knitted the front stitches together and purled the back stitches together. The stitch that should be knit with both strands together I did the same as the Borderstich at the sides of the heel flap : slip k stitch wyib, only contrast yarn forward, slip p stitch, turn and THEN knit them in the next row instead of slipping.

The first rows of the foot were a bit nerve wracking and I dropped a stitch that I had to repair, but from here on it should be easy peasy continuing the same method for the decreases. All I have to do then is see if I need to make the foot a bit longer.