After finishing the dressing gown, I decided to make matching knee
high socks. I often wear handknitted knee highs around the house, they
are so warm and comfortable. I decided to use this pattern
from Knitty, although I changed the hight, the stitch count, the yarn weight, the rate
of decreases and the needle size. Also, I decided to change the heel to
an afterthought heel to make it replaceable, because walking around on my
carpets wears through the heels of my indoor
socks through. Unfortunately, after I put in the first heel last night I
realised that the afterthought heel pulled the whole sock down in a way
that a heel flap and gusset doesn't, so it was too shortt. I'm going to have to do some
rethinking and frogging to make it work - perhaps
the Crystal heel (also from Knitty) and moving the heel down two
stripes?
I don't like to frog immediately, I like to think and plan before I
rip, so last night instead of knitting I pulled out the darning pile
and reinforced the heels of a couple of pairs of my house socks. I had
been putting this off for a while, knitting
new socks instead of repairing the old ones, so it was good to get it
done.
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