9/11

Cast on 24 using Judy’s Magic Cast On. Everything should be the same as a traditional toe-up pattern until the heel.

9/23

I’m about half way up the foot section. It’s a nice basic pattern to break up the complications of my other concurrent projects. The yarn is lovely and feels a little thinner than other sock yarns I’ve used.

10/22

Ok, I lied. I stuck with the normal slip stitch heel because I already made a gusset. I was going to try the fish lips kiss heel but that doesn’t require a gusset. Next time.

Because I did toe up, I kinda complicated things for myself when it came to knitting the leg. Thankfully I managed to figure out the foot cable is half of the leg cable so I need to shift my socks 9 stitches per side. Doing math plus reversal math late at night wasn’t the best idea. For reference, 9 foot cable stitches + 9 heel stitches = 18 leg cable stitches.

10/26

I screwed up the gusset decreases. Now I’m debating whether I want to frog back and fix that or frog back to before the gusset increases and try the fish lips kiss heel.

11/08

Finished. I frogged back to the correct number of decreases and continued from there. The legs and cuffs were pretty straight forward. For the cuff, the two sets of stitches on both sides of Chart A are knit stitches, not purls. Used JSSO for the bind off.

Overall it’s a very easy sock pattern. Needing to convert from top-down to toe-up wasn’t that difficult. I won’t be doing this again unless someone asked because I don’t necessarily want another pair in this pattern.