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Knitting challenges
Sep. 11th, 2015 09:58 pmIt's been a while since I posted about my knitting endeavours... I've not been idle, just distracted.
My broken seed stitch socks were on pause for a little while as I virorously continued on my Harvest Cardigan - with cramped hands as a result of too much stockinette stitch. But now the talk on Ravelry has turned to a sock knit-along, I need to clear my needles from this sock. I've always loved this pattern, but it's not turning out as wonderful as advertised and I had lost interest somewhat.
I mostly wear Birkenstocks around the house, but as the weather turns colder I find I need socks to go with them. My last pair of Yoshida tabi-socks have disappeared into a wastebasked a little while back as the big toe was so worn out it was kept together with spider-thread thick ghost-of-nylon -- suffice to say it didn't last long.
It's easy enough to cut open a sock and make it into tabi socks, but it's even better to knit some yourself. It's not as simple as it sounds though, even when you've pretty much got the sock-thing down and you're looking for new and interesting heels to knit. Suddenly you find yourself wondering what the circumference of your big toe is and that leads to some pretty demeaning measuring positions.
I've gotten this far, based on several free Ravelry patterns separating toes. I've found out you need to cast on extra stitches to bridge the gap between the top and the bottom of your toe. Some math was involved as the original pattern had 54 stitches for the foot and I used 65 (yes, an odd number. It worked better with the pattern.)
This toe was knit from 22 stitches, 11 before and 11 after the beginning of round marker, so the seam is on the inside of the foot. I cast on 4 additional stitches to bridge the gap between the toes using the backward loop method.
This big toe is 14 rows straight up before starting to decrease.
I'm still a bit unsure about the height - the grey area doesn't seem to extend all the way down to the bottom of the gap between the toes and there's still a bit of uncovered skin at the bottom of the toe which I am unsure will be covered up by kitchener-stitching the top closed. It might just be a bit of wonky fitting, as I was sure the sock was tall enough to reach to the top of my little toe in an earlier fitting. That is always the sign your foot is long enough and you can start the toe decreases -- but it's not apparant from this picture.
This picture has been posted pretty much everywhere, so foot porn and sock porn for free for those who want it. I will now await the results from the Ravelry debate on the length of the toe before I cut my thread and continue on the other toes.
The KAL has been posted, so I might as well be starting on a guage swatch....
My broken seed stitch socks were on pause for a little while as I virorously continued on my Harvest Cardigan - with cramped hands as a result of too much stockinette stitch. But now the talk on Ravelry has turned to a sock knit-along, I need to clear my needles from this sock. I've always loved this pattern, but it's not turning out as wonderful as advertised and I had lost interest somewhat.
I mostly wear Birkenstocks around the house, but as the weather turns colder I find I need socks to go with them. My last pair of Yoshida tabi-socks have disappeared into a wastebasked a little while back as the big toe was so worn out it was kept together with spider-thread thick ghost-of-nylon -- suffice to say it didn't last long.
It's easy enough to cut open a sock and make it into tabi socks, but it's even better to knit some yourself. It's not as simple as it sounds though, even when you've pretty much got the sock-thing down and you're looking for new and interesting heels to knit. Suddenly you find yourself wondering what the circumference of your big toe is and that leads to some pretty demeaning measuring positions. I've gotten this far, based on several free Ravelry patterns separating toes. I've found out you need to cast on extra stitches to bridge the gap between the top and the bottom of your toe. Some math was involved as the original pattern had 54 stitches for the foot and I used 65 (yes, an odd number. It worked better with the pattern.)
This toe was knit from 22 stitches, 11 before and 11 after the beginning of round marker, so the seam is on the inside of the foot. I cast on 4 additional stitches to bridge the gap between the toes using the backward loop method.
This big toe is 14 rows straight up before starting to decrease.
I'm still a bit unsure about the height - the grey area doesn't seem to extend all the way down to the bottom of the gap between the toes and there's still a bit of uncovered skin at the bottom of the toe which I am unsure will be covered up by kitchener-stitching the top closed. It might just be a bit of wonky fitting, as I was sure the sock was tall enough to reach to the top of my little toe in an earlier fitting. That is always the sign your foot is long enough and you can start the toe decreases -- but it's not apparant from this picture.
This picture has been posted pretty much everywhere, so foot porn and sock porn for free for those who want it. I will now await the results from the Ravelry debate on the length of the toe before I cut my thread and continue on the other toes.
The KAL has been posted, so I might as well be starting on a guage swatch....
