Project Start

Estonian / Latvian cast on. DPN wooden. Tried zero and 72 - too short on row height. Changed to 1.5 and 64 stitches - I think that row height is fine. Fit?? Eh. 72 and 1 was a bit loose over time previously so we shall see.

Probably doing a FLK heel instead of forethought. Maybe?

Note: all further cast ons beyond cuff edges are in normal long tail cast on to provide easy pick up of stitches.

April 12, 2016

Was having a heck of a time picking up the join of a purl to knit edge corner. Finally pulled the purl stitch under right most strand of stitch and right most of knit stitch under onto a needle and knit through the back loop.

First square done and initial pick up of 2 done.

Note: * (pick up 3, skip 1) twice, pick up 2, skip 1.* Repeat * as needed to pick up 16 or 32 stitches per side.

April 16, 2016

Damn. Made it almost to end large square on plane to J’s wedding - had error on line three. Froggy frog frog.

April 26, 2016

Seaming first long seam. Mattress stitch so… Go under one bar on vertical, one in horizontal, every few bars you need to double up the side that has more stitches per length to keep the pick up even. You can either go under 2 lines or go through lines twice. Either works. Never did a seam at right angles before - took 5 tries. Like the under running yarn one stitch in better than doing a selvidgr pick up for one side. I almost got lazy and whipped it but that would not match the other picked up stitches.

Note: do not seam or try to seam the entire thing with a single length of yarn. It will break down. Use at least two, maybe three. By this I mean you will need to sew in more ends else that single yarn will be severely weakened by being tugged through so much.

May 1, 2016

Finished first heel - first fore thought heel. Did try the knit purl bind off w/ needles for Kitchener a la tech knitter blog. Worked but way too tight. Had to finagle it looser. I may do it again w more attention to tension as I did find it more intuitive than with a sewing needle.

I did the optional extra rows of SS in the heel decreases for first five rows of decreases to get a less shallow cup since I’m a size 10.

Note: heel says knit straight for 3 rows after previously telling you to join in round. I took that as to mean knit SS - not knit flat.

May 4, 2016

Picked up for small squares for foot. This strange new furry lump of love is severely cutting into my knitting time, who knew? ;)

May 11, 2016

Finished seaming foot. Much easier this time! Ready to start toe.

May 11, 2016

Note: if you want to wear these all day for real wear and tear A. Are you nuts? :P Those mitered square decrease centers aren’t built Ford Tough, and B. Go with a plain foot bottom. That seam between my small square and large square on the foot is fine for house socks but I have doubts about taking it on the road.

May 18, 2016

Second sock running with almost all small squares of leg complete. Picking up is a breeze this time through.

May 26, 2016

Completed leg of sock 2. Seamed. Ready to start the fore thought heel.

June 1, 2016

Kitchenered heel 2. On to picking up for the foot. Unfortunately my foam bed gave out its last dying gasp after 9 years and 2 moves. I’m aching and tired as %#! So probably going to wait until I can think straight to do more.

June 7, 2016

Finished 4 small squares of foot. Now ready to pick up for first of 2 large squares for foot. My back is still a wreck but I’m trying to keep moving per the doc.

June 11, 2016

Finished second large square of foot. Finally. Dog park knitting is somewhat error prone. Ready to mattress seam and then on to the toe!

June 16, 2016

Finished second toe two days ago. Now to find time to wave in the ends before blocking!!

June 21, 2016

Finished weaving in ends on first sock, working on second sock, then on to washing and blocking.

June 29, 2016

It’s not that I don’t want to finish this (I don’t want to finish this) but this crochet cowl that I just added to my queue is so interesting…

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I will get it done this week…

June 30, 2016

Finished the ends, finally! Hanging and drying. Want to get large sock blockers though - these could use a stretch up a little. Will get wearing photos when dry.

July 23, 2016

Note: On further wear and tear I need to rip out my Kitchener on the heels and rekitchiener at a higher stitch count. Quite simply I only needed perhaps 1 row of extra spacing - not five! My heel is a bit over sized to my foot.