to all the US-based and ex-pats, hope your thanksgiving was great and you’re blessed with leftovers for the weekend so you don’t have to do any major cooking.
i avoided black friday sales/craziness (news says mostly happened on thanksgiving itself what with the insane/unnecessary early openings. don’t nobody need no new tv THAT badly to skip out on a high holy day, at least in my family.) spent today instead doing some light apres-holiday cleaning, including getting foodbank items ready for an event next friday, some leftovers, some yarn organizing, and now ready for some knitting. really want to finish those helical seahawks socks this weekend, afterthought heel and all.
i’m getting there… working on the ribbing at the top, but fighting my needles the whole way. i just got to the end of a round, so i’m going to switch from magic looping on 40" denise interchangeables to 2-circ method on metal 24"ers, and save myself some grief.
then i’ve seen a lot of people on various blogs suggest weaving in ends and washing and air drying BEFORE doing the afterthought heel. it’s supposed to relax and block so that picking up the heel stitches is easier. we shall see…
i’m getting there… working on the ribbing at the top, but fighting my needles the whole way. i just got to the end of a round, so i’m going to switch from magic looping on 40" denise interchangeables to 2-circ method on metal 24"ers, and save myself some grief.
then i’ve seen a lot of people on various blogs suggest weaving in ends and washing and air drying BEFORE doing the afterthought heel. it’s supposed to relax and block so that picking up the heel stitches is easier. we shall see…
scratch that, setback… on this last round, i managed to knit one side of sock 2 with sock 1’s yarn… lol… making it even harder on myself… pure genius here folks, pure genius.
ok, couldn’t just tink back because at some point i also split the yarn AND knit sock 1s working strand THROUGH the split onto sock 2… i amaze even myself ha ha!
so i frogged back about 8 rounds, until i exposed the live stitches from the leg (the 3-color helical portion). i put them on needles any way i could… regular, twisted, split, whatever… and then 1 by 1 fixed them as i came to them, with needles, crochet hook, fingers. i then started to re-knit the ribbed cuff (6 rounds finished so far), all last night.
and then had such a headache from the lateness, the squinting, the frustration, that it was bedtime. now today after gym, breakfast, errands, and lunch, it’s time to finish the ribbing while there’s daylight!
and then we’ll see about that afterthought heel. i’m running low on the bright royal blue, so i’m thinking of spiraling it with the navy… “double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bubble!”
I still want an explanation: How can it be afterthought when obviously it was premeditated? :mrgreen: Cutting into his knitting with malice aforethought. :roflhard:
I think you just explained why I’m not interested in giving barber pole stripes a run for the money.
if i can do this, everybody else should think it’s a cake walk…
plus, i have to figure it all out because i have so many single-color skeins that would work well together, or swirled with variegated skeins - i can’t stop now!
More fun than a barrel of monkeys. I’ve not heard that used in a while. I never knew why a barrel of monkeys would be fun, maybe that’s really the point.
You’ll know you’ve accomplished something really great when they’re done. I may never know the joys of an afterthought heel simply because it’s an ungusseted heel. Thank goodness.
Check into slip stitch color work or mosaic knitting, you might find something you’d like to try.
We the jury of your peeps find you guilty of aggravated knitting in the first degree. You are hereby sentenced to keep on knitting for the rest of your natural life. May The Frog have mercy on your soles.
i fell far behind this weekend, but a little progress is still progress.
seahawks socks (seasawks?) shown inside-out, front/back facings (or instep/heel if you like). yarn ends are basically the same on each sock, so everything shown, times 2. and THEN a quick wash, and THEN the heel.
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