I am confident that if you asked just about anyone who knows me in person if I am courteous and polite, the overwhelming response would be yes.\u00a0 However, I have noticed that my courtesy does not extend to my handknits.\u00a0 They can be quite rude, as evidenced by this conversation I heard while photographing these two single socks.\u00a0 (The blue-green sock is knit from Socks that Rock Mediumweight in Nodding Violets, and the red-blue sock is knit in Cherry Tree Hill Supersock in Champlain Sunset).
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\nBlue Sock:<\/strong> She’s knitting us as practice socks to correct for “protocol drift” that was leading to socks not fitting her as well as she liked. Since I am the second practice sock, I am better than you.<\/em>
\nRed Sock:<\/strong> Well, while your 3\/8-inch longer heel flap fits her better, in the Eye of the Patridge pattern, there were so many rows that your gusset is a bit, shall we say “baggy.” My gussets are sleek without being stretched too far.\u00a0 And I fit just fine, so there!<\/em>
\nBlue Sock:<\/strong> I fit just fine too, you plain stockinette hussy!<\/em>
\nRed Sock:<\/strong> Like 3×1 ribbing in the cuff is such a big deal!<\/em><\/p>\n

Well, that’s enough of that. On both socks, I finally, finally got the toe grafting done to my satisfaction.
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\nI had been using the directions from Knitty, but I kept getting a bump at the beginning, and I had a very hard time getting the stitches tightened up properly. I decided I needed different directions, as I was clearly missing something. I tried Sally Melville’s directions from her book, The Purl Stitch<\/em>, and that worked like a charm. I have no idea how I kept from getting a bump at the beginning, but she recommends putting the sock on your hand like a puppet to tighten all the grafting, which for me was pure genius. I was a bit embarrassed that I hadn’t thought of that myself.<\/p>\n

Both these socks fit fine, as I finally managed to knit the foot long enough, but I do think that if I want to do an EoP heel flap, I should use a larger needle to try to keep the row number down. I also knit both of these with a larger needle for the leg than for the foot due to my “cankles.” I have a question though for all of you. I noticed\u00a0 that in stockinette stitch the CTH gives me little uniform Vs, but on the STR, one side of the stitch is much more vertical. See–
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\nWhy is that? I’ve noticed this in other people’s knitting too. It seems to be yarn based not knitter based. I do love both these yarns though, which is good as I have more of each in my stash.<\/p>\n

Now I need to knit the second sock for each of these, which is not filling me with joyous anticipation–in addition to being rude, they are a little dull. You see, I’ve bought Cookie A’s Flicker pattern<\/a> and Knottygnome’s Coin Toss pattern<\/a>. I have Dream in Color Smooshy in Gothic Rose and Blue Lagoon. The only reason I haven’t cast on for these is that I can’t decide which sock to knit in which color.
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\nFeel free to voice an opinion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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