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A story about some socks and some heels

This is my oldest pair of sneaker liners and my first pair of socks, knit in 2009. I knit them in  from the left overs of a baby jumper. There are top down, heel flap and gussett. They are also getting too small for me.I have noticed is that over time, my sneaker liners shrink through the heel.

 
It also happens with the  Fish Lips Kiss heel. And when the heel gets shorter, the back of the cuff goes down, and leaves the back of my Achilles exposed. It probably wouldn't matter with socks with longer cuffs, but I do knit a lot of sneaker liners.

Now, it's not uprising that this happens. I wear these socks with bike shoes, and sometimes it's raining. I wear them to the gym. Sometimes with shoes, more often without. What's surprising is that they wear so well and last as long as they do.

It also led to me experimenting with the Sweet Tomato Heel. Even though it is a bit more work to work than the Fish Lips Kiss heel, when I got up to the heel of the socks I am making with the left over "Audrey" yarn, I realised STH was the  way to go. 
I used German shortrows because I'm better at them than the "thanks ma" that Cat Bordhi prescribes.

I think they look cute with a contrast heel, which I did to save yarn, but I'm not sure it helped with the heel depth - this is after I rode to work, I took the photo without adjusting the sock at all. Maybe I needed to knit more of the last wedge. I'm still experimenting here.

 Hmm, well they are more comfortable than they look, and I was glad to be able to squeeze another pair of socks out of this lovely yarn.



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