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January 23, 2006
Sunday Socks
I should call this the week socks. Tuesday I knit the ribbing, Wednesday the leg to first decrease row, Thursday decreases, Friday leg from decreases to ankle, Saturday flap and heel turning, Sunday gusset. I am a sock knitting fiend. Did you know that I, in all my sockity knitting love, have sock knitting tricks? I do.
You know how in typical heel flaps you slip 1, k1 accross on RS rows and slip 1, purl to end on WS rows? And then the instructions invariably ask you to repeat these two rows X times for so many chain sts along side. Like you can count the chain sts in dark yarn knit at 8 spi. Yah. Well Elka has a trick to make up for the mind numbingly boring knitting that puts her brain to sleep ummm I mean so exciting she doesn't have the sense of mind to count. She counts the floats. Yes the floats. When you slip the stitch on RS rows you are creating a float on WS row and, after having completed a WS row she can slide her needle between floats and fabric and then easily count them. Each float=2 rows or 1 repeat. Here we have 14 floats and the pattern calls for row 1, row 2 repeat rows 1&2 14X for 15 chains. I need to knit 2 more rows for 1 more float..... see
yarny days and knitterly evening everybody
Posted by Elka at 08:01 PM | Comments (3)