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February 23, 2006
From the Sublime to the Lowly
We start with Color Blind Elka working with Black Cherry, Bright Red, Dull Red, Rose, and Burgandy yarn. I don't see these colors but that is what the designer calls them. The yarn company assigned them numbers so obviously Nancy B sees colors differently than Elka. No matter~ the pattern has been on my to do list for almost a decade and the yarns were ordered during the buying frenzy of last month. We then Cast On using needles called for and reach the unsurpassed beauty of color blending:
Then we knit onward through the heel shaping. A heel type called 'common' I believe*. One that has always looked rather inelegant, nay downright ooglie, to me. But in Nancy we trust and so we continue with utmost faith that this heel will fit extreemly well as per blurb and look less icky in 3D instead of laid out flat for photography's sake. Oh how our trust was mislaid. Looksie...
From The Side:
From the Side not smootched out by table:
Damn my nail is dirty....
From the Side Close up of ooglie bloopiness:
From the bottom showing the near obscene mushroom cloud of a heel:
From the oh I didn't take any more pictures hmmmmmmmm. It's ooglie. Heck it's downright Fooglie~ that's fuglier than ooglie or ooglier than fuglie depending upon how you want to see it. And those decreases along bottom which are then grafted together, necessitating the breaking of yarn and weaving in of yarns at heel let that sink in the heel folks!, cause a bloopiness beyond mushroom cloud right there at the heel. The heel! Imagine the wings of fabric one gets upon grafting. Comon you know what I am talking about~ that little elfin cap point at the end of grafted row~ at the heel. I cannot get over the extra fabric and woven threads at the heel. Common indeed.
yarny days and knitterly evenings
* I am using common not in it's most often aka common meaning of frequent but rather for it's derogatory meaning:Lacking taste or refinement; vulgar
Posted by Elka at February 23, 2006 08:50 PM
Comments
I agree Elka. Grafting is the bane of my knitterly existence. Do we feel a bad case of "second sock syndrome" coming on?
Posted by: Lorraine The Knitting Hammy at February 24, 2006 10:09 AM
I had to stare at that thing for a while before I figured it out: it's a Merike's Sock! Right? :-) What threw me is that the cast-on edge isn't visible in the top photo.
I'm impressed that you actually followed the instructions for the heel. The first time I paged through Folk Socks and saw those words, "graft the halves together", I laughed in disbelief. Why, why, why would Nancy inflict that on us? Now that you have finished one heel this way, can you see any advantages to this method? I can't imagine it's any more durable than the regular kind of heel, and it's certainly a lot fussier.
Posted by: Beth S. at February 24, 2006 12:49 PM
Oh my, now that is truely something to behold. I have no issues with grafting but agree that the heel is not among the top ten (20?) places I would think to put grafting!
I also never knew my heel was shaped like....quite like that ;)
The cuffs were glorious dahlink!
Posted by: DeeAnn at February 27, 2006 10:15 AM