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March 3, 2016
Birthday Socks
It's not quite my birthday yet, but then these socks aren't quite finished, either. But more about that later. I wanted cheerful socks for my birthday. This pair overtook the pair already underway because I made such a mess of one sock of that pair the first week I was sick. This pair pretty much screams "HAPPY!" at me, which, having been sick several weeks and with a birthday days away, I needed.
I put them on right after closing the toes, went outside, and took the pictures. Their first formal wearing will be on my birthday because...birthday.
What, non-knitters will ask, is left to do? (Knitters know. Knitters are sniggering now...<G>) Well...every time you change the yarn, for instance to make a stripe, there are loose ends. And though you can stick your feet in them with the ends still loose, the right way to finish socks is to weave in every single loose end. Neatly. (If you knit with only one yarn, and it doesn't have a break in it, there are only two ends-one where you cast on and the other where you do some kind of bind-off. I purse-string 'em at the toes.
This is what the inside looks like, laid next to the outside of the other sock:
I change yarns at the bottom of the sock--or, on the leg, at the back. Weaving these ends in wlll take me several days, but I should easily finish these by my birthday.
One more picture:
I put them on right after closing the toes, went outside, and took the pictures. Their first formal wearing will be on my birthday because...birthday. What, non-knitters will ask, is left to do? (Knitters know. Knitters are sniggering now...<G>) Well...every time you change the yarn, for instance to make a stripe, there are loose ends. And though you can stick your feet in them with the ends still loose, the right way to finish socks is to weave in every single loose end. Neatly. (If you knit with only one yarn, and it doesn't have a break in it, there are only two ends-one where you cast on and the other where you do some kind of bind-off. I purse-string 'em at the toes.
This is what the inside looks like, laid next to the outside of the other sock:
I change yarns at the bottom of the sock--or, on the leg, at the back. Weaving these ends in wlll take me several days, but I should easily finish these by my birthday.
One more picture:
February 29, 2016
Same Socks, Fourth Verse
Images taken about noon today, February 29, of the "Bitterroot" socks still in progress.
Yarns were named in the previous post.
Yarn colors do not always photograph the way they look in real life, so some of these have been tinkered with in the photo software. They are now *closer* to how I see them. In the first image, above, the lower sock (nearer) has the heel side up and the heel sticking up hides most of the foot; the upper sock has the heel side down. The first stripe on each sock, at the ankle, is navy blue; the next is royal purple.
Here's a closeup of the heel detail , including turn, of the longer sock.
Although the heel flap is in the eye of partridge stitch that I like for heel reinforcement and padding, it doesn't look the same at all in this strongly variegated yarn as it does in a solid color, or less strongly variegated yarn, where it looks much more "waffle on an angle," as below.
Here's a better picture of the sock foot design as it's nearing completion.
The left sock is almost to the transition back to the MC yarn for the toe, after another one or two more rows of the dark green. It's attached to both the its own multi-colored yarn and the green yarn (center, above) The right sock has only its purple stripe and the multi stripe beyond that. It's presently attached only to its ball of the multi-colored yarn, but is about to start its red stripe. I'm saving yarn (and weaving in of ends) but continug the mutli-yarn up the stripes, knitting the two yarns together every second or third row. I will hold the left sock at the point of starting toe decreases, and take the left one to the same level. I'd like to finish this pair by my birthday, a week from today, as a present to myself. (There are a lot of ends to weave in.)
Yarns were named in the previous post.
Yarn colors do not always photograph the way they look in real life, so some of these have been tinkered with in the photo software. They are now *closer* to how I see them. In the first image, above, the lower sock (nearer) has the heel side up and the heel sticking up hides most of the foot; the upper sock has the heel side down. The first stripe on each sock, at the ankle, is navy blue; the next is royal purple.
Here's a closeup of the heel detail , including turn, of the longer sock.
Although the heel flap is in the eye of partridge stitch that I like for heel reinforcement and padding, it doesn't look the same at all in this strongly variegated yarn as it does in a solid color, or less strongly variegated yarn, where it looks much more "waffle on an angle," as below.
Here's a better picture of the sock foot design as it's nearing completion.
The left sock is almost to the transition back to the MC yarn for the toe, after another one or two more rows of the dark green. It's attached to both the its own multi-colored yarn and the green yarn (center, above) The right sock has only its purple stripe and the multi stripe beyond that. It's presently attached only to its ball of the multi-colored yarn, but is about to start its red stripe. I'm saving yarn (and weaving in of ends) but continug the mutli-yarn up the stripes, knitting the two yarns together every second or third row. I will hold the left sock at the point of starting toe decreases, and take the left one to the same level. I'd like to finish this pair by my birthday, a week from today, as a present to myself. (There are a lot of ends to weave in.)
February 28, 2016
Same Socks, Third Verse
It's blowing too hard to take pictures outside today, in natural light (the knitting would blow off the table) but I'm now past the gusset decreases and on the foot. Additional colors have been added to stripe the Mountain Colors "Bitterroot Rainbow". I had found an old basket with a lot of purples in it, all old yarns from my mother's (and possibly her aunt's or grandmother's) stash. The yarn was all 100% wool, mothproofed, sold in unwrapped "pull skeins." Most was from Kress, at $1.69 a 4 oz. (approx 113g) skein. Gone are the days for that, but then at the time gasoline was below $0.25 cents/gallon in Texas, where my mother lived. And her salary was under $400/month.
From her purples, I chose Purple 405. It's that gorgeous royal purple (not blue-purple, not red-purple) that's so hard to find. That was the first stripe below the Mountain Colors 10-row stripe. Then I started hunting through my stash for the right green, red, and gold/yellow, laying all my reds, greens, and yellows against the Mountain colors and that purple. The green is a dark, rich, cool greenm Cascade 220 #8893l the yellow is the color of common marigolds--more gold than yellow, Cascade 220 #7828; and the red is Ella rae Classic #98, darker than my usual red socks (that red, #31, sort of leaped out over the Mountain Colrs and screamed LOOK AT ME which wasn't what I wanted. The instep stripe of Mountain Colors is 10 rows, and the purple is 7 rows. I had only one skein of the yellow, bought for stripes, so I made two balls out of it for convenience (working on two socks at once it's handy to have two balls.) I had four skeins of the green, and wound it up, but didn't break it--four skeins is enough for 2 pairs of socks plus leftovers, and if I don't do more than five rows of the green on each sock, I'll still have enough for a sock from it. I have two balls of the red, so that's no problem--if I get to the red stripe at the same time on both, I have two balls to draw from. There'll still be plenty for a pair of red socks from it.
I'll add images to this post when I am not worried about a sack of yarn and its attached sock flying off the table and across the yard.
From her purples, I chose Purple 405. It's that gorgeous royal purple (not blue-purple, not red-purple) that's so hard to find. That was the first stripe below the Mountain Colors 10-row stripe. Then I started hunting through my stash for the right green, red, and gold/yellow, laying all my reds, greens, and yellows against the Mountain colors and that purple. The green is a dark, rich, cool greenm Cascade 220 #8893l the yellow is the color of common marigolds--more gold than yellow, Cascade 220 #7828; and the red is Ella rae Classic #98, darker than my usual red socks (that red, #31, sort of leaped out over the Mountain Colrs and screamed LOOK AT ME which wasn't what I wanted. The instep stripe of Mountain Colors is 10 rows, and the purple is 7 rows. I had only one skein of the yellow, bought for stripes, so I made two balls out of it for convenience (working on two socks at once it's handy to have two balls.) I had four skeins of the green, and wound it up, but didn't break it--four skeins is enough for 2 pairs of socks plus leftovers, and if I don't do more than five rows of the green on each sock, I'll still have enough for a sock from it. I have two balls of the red, so that's no problem--if I get to the red stripe at the same time on both, I have two balls to draw from. There'll still be plenty for a pair of red socks from it.
I'll add images to this post when I am not worried about a sack of yarn and its attached sock flying off the table and across the yard.
February 25, 2016
Back to Socks
The latest pair (which has overtaken the pair before) is unfinished, but I want to document progress on it, so here goes.
The last time I showed it here, it was just starting on its cuff, though there's a later shot of the cuff about as long as the brown one above. At that time, the plan was for a multi-colored sock with, perhaps, some solid stripes on the foot.
However, by the time I was three inches down on the first cuff, and an inch down on the second, I realized that the two balls of Mountain Colors Bitterroot Rainbow were not quite the same--one was distinctly darker and duller than the other. Pause for thought. One brighter and one duller sock? No. One brighter cuff and one duller cuff? No. The plan became "knit the second cuff to the same length as the first cuff, then switch balls of yarn to finish off, and make the cuff an extra inch longer. Then use a solid color for the ankle, knit the heel flap in the MC yarn, whichever one was used for the lower part of the cuff.
After looking at the effect that made, consider how best to join up the rounds (using the same solid color as the ankle? Using the same multi as the heel flap?) and then stripe the foot in alternate multi and solid yarn, perhaps (one idea) using the same solid color throughout or (other idea) use other colors in the multi yarn (it has purple, blue, green, yellow, orange, and red) down the foot, and both ideas) alternate the multi stripes between the two balls of yarn-- to achieve a "fraternal twins" pair of socks.
Right now, February 25, I've turned the heels of both socks (repairing solidly, though not perfectly, a dropped stitch in the eye-of-partridge heel pattern on one) and have picked up the stitches on one. Picking up the stitches turns out to be much easier when all those edge stitches are different in color from the ones on either side.
The solid color is Ella rae Classic #85, navy blue; I'm still thinking whether to use it throughout, or add some purple, green, red, and a sort orange-yellow I have in the stash. The toes will be multi-colored, possibly with a one-row stripe of the navy.
The last time I showed it here, it was just starting on its cuff, though there's a later shot of the cuff about as long as the brown one above. At that time, the plan was for a multi-colored sock with, perhaps, some solid stripes on the foot. However, by the time I was three inches down on the first cuff, and an inch down on the second, I realized that the two balls of Mountain Colors Bitterroot Rainbow were not quite the same--one was distinctly darker and duller than the other. Pause for thought. One brighter and one duller sock? No. One brighter cuff and one duller cuff? No. The plan became "knit the second cuff to the same length as the first cuff, then switch balls of yarn to finish off, and make the cuff an extra inch longer. Then use a solid color for the ankle, knit the heel flap in the MC yarn, whichever one was used for the lower part of the cuff.
After looking at the effect that made, consider how best to join up the rounds (using the same solid color as the ankle? Using the same multi as the heel flap?) and then stripe the foot in alternate multi and solid yarn, perhaps (one idea) using the same solid color throughout or (other idea) use other colors in the multi yarn (it has purple, blue, green, yellow, orange, and red) down the foot, and both ideas) alternate the multi stripes between the two balls of yarn-- to achieve a "fraternal twins" pair of socks.
Right now, February 25, I've turned the heels of both socks (repairing solidly, though not perfectly, a dropped stitch in the eye-of-partridge heel pattern on one) and have picked up the stitches on one. Picking up the stitches turns out to be much easier when all those edge stitches are different in color from the ones on either side.
The solid color is Ella rae Classic #85, navy blue; I'm still thinking whether to use it throughout, or add some purple, green, red, and a sort orange-yellow I have in the stash. The toes will be multi-colored, possibly with a one-row stripe of the navy.
February 18, 2016
Another Website, Another Blog: Universes
Universes is my new website, just for my science fiction writing, and it has an embedded blog, also called
Universes.
Since I'd been working mostly in fantasy for the past five books, but have switched back to science fiction for at least two, I decided to have a site and a blog dedicated to science fiction only. Not just about my own work--one of posts now up on the blog celebrates C.J. Cherryh, a writer I've admired since I read her first books back in the 1970s, and who was named a Grandmaster in the field by the Science Fiction Fantasy Writers of America just today. I will be writing blog posts about writers I admire in the future, too.
Since I'd been working mostly in fantasy for the past five books, but have switched back to science fiction for at least two, I decided to have a site and a blog dedicated to science fiction only. Not just about my own work--one of posts now up on the blog celebrates C.J. Cherryh, a writer I've admired since I read her first books back in the 1970s, and who was named a Grandmaster in the field by the Science Fiction Fantasy Writers of America just today. I will be writing blog posts about writers I admire in the future, too.
February 15, 2016
Thumb!
And finally, a rather peculiar-looking thumb tube:
I am still coughing, my chest still sounds like a badly played hand-organ, my head still aches, my vision goes blurry with the coughing and so on...BUT I finished the fingerless mitt #1.
I am still coughing, my chest still sounds like a badly played hand-organ, my head still aches, my vision goes blurry with the coughing and so on...BUT I finished the fingerless mitt #1.
February 14, 2016
Almost Done
So last night, awakened by paroxysms of coughing from a too-short sleep, I picked up the unfinished mitt and had at it. Decided to use a K1P1 ribbing at the very top, and discovered (partway through the intended length) that I was running out of yarn. NOT the place I wanted to try splicing in another length, esp. since I was working between coughing fits, sneezing fits, trips to the kitchen to bring back more tissues, cough drops, and water. Also tired. I did finally get the bind off done with about 12 inches of yarn left hanging, but did not pull the yarn through tightly, as I was considering unraveling in the morning back a ways to make a taller top line of ribbing.
In the morning, I put it on to show family...and disaster....as the bind off came unbound and freed up a bunch of K & P stitches. In a panic, I went on an secured the last stitch holding, then got a needle and put the others back on, and redid the bindoff, but now, instead of the surprisingly smooth and even top, there are...irregularities. You can see them easily; I changed the contrast and all so you could. Yes, I already know about them (hint, hint) and what I did wrong (hint, hint) so you don't have to explain. Still haven't dealt with building up a short thumb section.
That place where my wedding ring is peeking through? That's where the unraveling started, propagating rightward.
I would've liked another half inch of length, but as this is a test mitt, it wasn't worth attaching another big hunk of yarn. This was a leftover from (I think) short socks, themselves leftovers from long socks.
A view of the back of my hand--I had to put my hand flat on my desk, and stand up, to get the camera to focus on it.
The few rows of 1x1 ribbing did uncurl the stockinette, This mitt fits a little more snugly on my right hand, but I needed that one to hold the camera so I would be angled to catch the light from the window.
Anyway...I'm wearing it while typing, with the stitch holder still holding the 10 stitches at the bottom of the thumb-hole and it's quite comfortable to work in. For indoor use (it's a north window, and leaky) I don't really need a thumb section--but I have had a cold wrist and hand. Today I have one slightly chilly wrist and hand, and one that feels comforted.
The next one should be better. Especially if I can get over this virus (though when I do, I must plunge into book revision. At present I can't stay up that long.)
In the morning, I put it on to show family...and disaster....as the bind off came unbound and freed up a bunch of K & P stitches. In a panic, I went on an secured the last stitch holding, then got a needle and put the others back on, and redid the bindoff, but now, instead of the surprisingly smooth and even top, there are...irregularities. You can see them easily; I changed the contrast and all so you could. Yes, I already know about them (hint, hint) and what I did wrong (hint, hint) so you don't have to explain. Still haven't dealt with building up a short thumb section.
That place where my wedding ring is peeking through? That's where the unraveling started, propagating rightward.
I would've liked another half inch of length, but as this is a test mitt, it wasn't worth attaching another big hunk of yarn. This was a leftover from (I think) short socks, themselves leftovers from long socks.
A view of the back of my hand--I had to put my hand flat on my desk, and stand up, to get the camera to focus on it.
The few rows of 1x1 ribbing did uncurl the stockinette, This mitt fits a little more snugly on my right hand, but I needed that one to hold the camera so I would be angled to catch the light from the window.
Anyway...I'm wearing it while typing, with the stitch holder still holding the 10 stitches at the bottom of the thumb-hole and it's quite comfortable to work in. For indoor use (it's a north window, and leaky) I don't really need a thumb section--but I have had a cold wrist and hand. Today I have one slightly chilly wrist and hand, and one that feels comforted.
The next one should be better. Especially if I can get over this virus (though when I do, I must plunge into book revision. At present I can't stay up that long.)
February 13, 2016
Non-Sock Knitting
Largely because I wanted to free the size 5 needles I'd used to start it, I picked up a project begun...um...according to my Ravelry projects page, June 29, 2015, shortly after we were allowed back in the train station in Fort Worth after a "shots fired" incident. (Nobody died; nobody injured.) I started it because knitting is calming, and I'd finished a pair of socks so had some yarn and needles with me. I've looked at it a few times but haven't gone farther. I'd been wanting to learn to do fingerless mitts for some time, but socks were a priority, and still are, except that in this illness I've made mistakes that cost me a lot of itme. So today, after working on the shorter of the two "Bitterroot Rainbow" socks, and remembering that some size 5 needles were in this, I shifted to size 4s (of which I have more) and then, as it was going pretty well, went on. Here's what it looked like when put aside last summer:
All it had then was the bit of ribbed cuff, and there it sat for months. Well, not there, but in a plastic work-bag to keep it from the moths.
The thing about mitts or gloves is that it's a branched tube (or a tube with another orifice, to start with) and thus, for those who haven't tried it before and are not great at understanding knitting directions (that would be me) a bit of a topological challenge. I read a lot of directions, stared repeatedly at the one remaining mitten from my mother's many knitted presents, and finally, today, between coughing fits, got this far:
I realize now that I've made at least one technical mistake that's going to bite me...I added stitches at the top of the opening, to the sides would meet, and then knit two stitches together to join what had been the flat part rather than putting the stitches at the top on something I could knit off of. I did remember to slip the first stitch of each row when I was knitting the flat part (where it goes up from the stitch holder below the thumb to the join at the top--it's knit one way, purled the other.) I also may have added too many stitches (now on the stitch holder) but I was feeling my way along. (Was I following a pattern? Are you kidding? I am in knitting, as in so many things, a "let see if I can make this work" person, and since knitting can't electrocute me, stab me (these needles are fairly blunt), blow me up, shoot me or anyone else, or poison me...I play in a sort of childlike state of discovery. It's fun. It's not efficient, but then knitting is something I enjoy. It doesn't put food on the table. It would've been nice if I'd remembered that increases, like decreases, can lean left and right, but...again...discoveries. There's a bulgy bit on the back so far...but the straight needles are pulling the corners out. It may calm down. Or not.
Next: I'll take it up to the top of my hand just past the big knuckles, and then see if I can get a half-thumb picked up and knitted in the hole there. The second one will be cast on with size 4 needles to start with (or moved to 4s after I do the ribbing--I really don't like tight ribbing) and what I learn from the first will be used on the second.
On the funny side (sortakinda) I am still short 4 size 5 DPNs. That suggests they're in a project somewhere. Because I had (I'm almost-for-certain-sure) 30 of them, enough to have three pairs of socks going at once (and had had that, in fact) and 4 missing would be the four standing needles in something being knitted in the round. But what ELSE could I have been knitting? All my needles had been committed to socks for several years. And I had the needles off the pair I'd finished up a few hours before...some of which I used for this, and some of which I put somewhere in my luggage. Surely, they'd have been in the Ziplock that the sock-in-progress had been in. And I would've pulled them out of that and put them in my big "stays at home usually" needle bag. Wouldn't I? Apparently I didn't, and put them somewhere else.
All it had then was the bit of ribbed cuff, and there it sat for months. Well, not there, but in a plastic work-bag to keep it from the moths.
The thing about mitts or gloves is that it's a branched tube (or a tube with another orifice, to start with) and thus, for those who haven't tried it before and are not great at understanding knitting directions (that would be me) a bit of a topological challenge. I read a lot of directions, stared repeatedly at the one remaining mitten from my mother's many knitted presents, and finally, today, between coughing fits, got this far:
I realize now that I've made at least one technical mistake that's going to bite me...I added stitches at the top of the opening, to the sides would meet, and then knit two stitches together to join what had been the flat part rather than putting the stitches at the top on something I could knit off of. I did remember to slip the first stitch of each row when I was knitting the flat part (where it goes up from the stitch holder below the thumb to the join at the top--it's knit one way, purled the other.) I also may have added too many stitches (now on the stitch holder) but I was feeling my way along. (Was I following a pattern? Are you kidding? I am in knitting, as in so many things, a "let see if I can make this work" person, and since knitting can't electrocute me, stab me (these needles are fairly blunt), blow me up, shoot me or anyone else, or poison me...I play in a sort of childlike state of discovery. It's fun. It's not efficient, but then knitting is something I enjoy. It doesn't put food on the table. It would've been nice if I'd remembered that increases, like decreases, can lean left and right, but...again...discoveries. There's a bulgy bit on the back so far...but the straight needles are pulling the corners out. It may calm down. Or not.
Next: I'll take it up to the top of my hand just past the big knuckles, and then see if I can get a half-thumb picked up and knitted in the hole there. The second one will be cast on with size 4 needles to start with (or moved to 4s after I do the ribbing--I really don't like tight ribbing) and what I learn from the first will be used on the second.
On the funny side (sortakinda) I am still short 4 size 5 DPNs. That suggests they're in a project somewhere. Because I had (I'm almost-for-certain-sure) 30 of them, enough to have three pairs of socks going at once (and had had that, in fact) and 4 missing would be the four standing needles in something being knitted in the round. But what ELSE could I have been knitting? All my needles had been committed to socks for several years. And I had the needles off the pair I'd finished up a few hours before...some of which I used for this, and some of which I put somewhere in my luggage. Surely, they'd have been in the Ziplock that the sock-in-progress had been in. And I would've pulled them out of that and put them in my big "stays at home usually" needle bag. Wouldn't I? Apparently I didn't, and put them somewhere else.
Great Backyard Bird Count
This is the weekend of the Great Backyard Bird Count, which we use as a census point for birds (and whatever else we can find.) Often it's been a weekend of rotten observing weather. This year it's gorgeous: sunny and warm. And I'm sick, so I can't make it out to the far ends of the place. Drat!
BUT the backyard is full of birds, lots of birds, though not as many species as we usually have in winter, or as many individuals in some species that have been numerous before (American Goldfinch, Lesser Goldfinch, etc.) No Pine Siskins in several years. What we do have is four pairs of Cardinals, a lot of house sparrows, a lot of White-winged Doves, at last two pairs of House Finches, one or two American Goldfinches, 4-6 Inca Doves, a few White Crowned Sparrows, one Savannah Sparrow, four Blue Jays, a Mockingbird heard early this morning but not out there feeding, a few Carolina Chickadees and Black-crested Titmice...and that's it. Week before last we had a Downy Woodpecker and a Red-bellied Woodpecker, but not this week. Last week we had a Phoebe, but not this week.
Of the winter residents, we have only the American Goldfinch, White-crowned Sparrow, and Savannah Sparrow. I saw some Harris's Sparrows earlier in the winter, but none in the last 2 weeks. They may be starting north earlier. No White-throated, no Field, no Chipping, no Lincoln's Sparrows, all of which we used to get every winter. Climate change. Birds are moving nowth, it's said, over 1 km/year. What used to be migrating bat populations in Central Texas are now here year-round.
BUT the backyard is full of birds, lots of birds, though not as many species as we usually have in winter, or as many individuals in some species that have been numerous before (American Goldfinch, Lesser Goldfinch, etc.) No Pine Siskins in several years. What we do have is four pairs of Cardinals, a lot of house sparrows, a lot of White-winged Doves, at last two pairs of House Finches, one or two American Goldfinches, 4-6 Inca Doves, a few White Crowned Sparrows, one Savannah Sparrow, four Blue Jays, a Mockingbird heard early this morning but not out there feeding, a few Carolina Chickadees and Black-crested Titmice...and that's it. Week before last we had a Downy Woodpecker and a Red-bellied Woodpecker, but not this week. Last week we had a Phoebe, but not this week.
Of the winter residents, we have only the American Goldfinch, White-crowned Sparrow, and Savannah Sparrow. I saw some Harris's Sparrows earlier in the winter, but none in the last 2 weeks. They may be starting north earlier. No White-throated, no Field, no Chipping, no Lincoln's Sparrows, all of which we used to get every winter. Climate change. Birds are moving nowth, it's said, over 1 km/year. What used to be migrating bat populations in Central Texas are now here year-round.
February 12, 2016
Progress minus...
So...I got sick. Now when I can't work on the computer, I can often knit (and sleep, then knit again...) so I continued to keep the socks in progress on the bed with me.
This led to...really stupid and first-time-ever errors. But here's some images of where the socks are now...
The other brown & green sock had to be ripped back several rows, and I don't have it back on the right needles yet (it's got the stitches held on a combination of a contrasting strand of yarn and a couple of cable needles. I've felt too unfocused to risk trying to put it back on the regular needles.)
This brown & green is almost to the heel turn; the heel flap is, as usual, in Eye of Partridge stitch as reinforcement. Once the heel's turned, I'll switch back to the brown heather to pick up the stitches along the side of the heel flap and then begin the gusset decreases. Like the ribbed cuff, the foot will be brown with green stripes, and then will have a green toe with a brown stripe.
The other mixed-colors sock is about an inch along.
This led to...really stupid and first-time-ever errors. But here's some images of where the socks are now...
The other brown & green sock had to be ripped back several rows, and I don't have it back on the right needles yet (it's got the stitches held on a combination of a contrasting strand of yarn and a couple of cable needles. I've felt too unfocused to risk trying to put it back on the regular needles.)
This brown & green is almost to the heel turn; the heel flap is, as usual, in Eye of Partridge stitch as reinforcement. Once the heel's turned, I'll switch back to the brown heather to pick up the stitches along the side of the heel flap and then begin the gusset decreases. Like the ribbed cuff, the foot will be brown with green stripes, and then will have a green toe with a brown stripe.
The other mixed-colors sock is about an inch along.
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