Thank you dotty!!!
thanks for the compliments on the kids.
Dotty: were so glad to see you posting again!!!
no knitting for me till my wrist is better, moved the kids rooms yesterday (by myself-I’m invincible-jk) and now my wrist is swollen and sore-o well. i’m taking motrin and icing it and have it in a splint, had to shower and do everything with my left hand today-except I had dh snap my bra, couldn’t figure that one out. lol. that ought to put a smile on your faces. hope all is well…catch up with yall later
I’m working on my first sock, which is also my first real knitting project. (I made a couple of washcloths to learn knit & purl and then I made a wobbly swatch to get a feel for how increases and decreases are supposed to work.)
I’m using Silver’s DPN Sock Tutorial (with worsted weight yarn,) and I just finished my 20 rows for the heel flap. The next step says that I should have just done a right side row. Well…I just did a wrong side (purl) row. Does anyone know what I might have done wrong? Did I somehow start my flap in the wrong place? What’s the best way to fix this? (Afraid I know answer: 
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Any help is very much appreciated!
well hun,
you could tink back a row or you could just do an extra row and you would be on the appropriate side ( just think of em as personalized sox). Just remember how many rows you actually did for the flap and make your gusset decreases accordingly.
Knitpit, Fibrenut’s reply is right on. Just add another row so the next row is what the directions tell you.
Dotty, It’s so good to hear from you! I’m sorry things are so hard for you right now. Keep your chin up, girlfriend! We’re here for you! Still 
Remember I told y’all that my DH is knitting? He LOST a set of my KPO’s! GRRRRRRR! He had his first forray into the work of KIP and LEFT THEM at the Toyota Center in Houston!
Thanks, I’ll add another row and move on.
So sorry about your KPO’s.
OMG GJ,
Poor guy, prolly felt really bad when he realized what had happened…:noway: 
But you do have to admit though, it is kinda funny 
Hopefully you can get them back. And then, all’s well that ends well 
:out:
if you can’ tget them back then you get to order more! too bad though.
can you believe 2007 is over? where’d the time go?
On this last day of 2007, what is everyone wish for 2008 ?
I officially suck at socks. It doesn’t however, keep me from wanting to knit them. I frogged the toe up sock I was doing. I just knew I wasn’t interested in it and it wasn’t going to get done. And if by some miracle it DID get done, it would be a victim of SSS.
So, I took the other ball of matching sock yarn I have and started a new pattern. It’s in the Timeless Designs from Interweave Knits book and it’s the “Go with the flow” pattern. I’m only on the cuff still, but it’s going well (forget that I was cursing during most of pattern row 1).
I really really want to make socks and I’m not willing to admit defeat yet.
Go, alleusion ! You’ll get it yet !
Hi Jackie…:waving: …my hopes and wishes for the next year is that Mike will regain the use of his right hand and arm and be sanding on a new spoon by next Christmastime ! (and that disability awards our claim!)
good for you Jenny! you’ll win with an attitude like that.
my wish for - health, for everyone (& a good raise for dh) among other things, like time to knit more-which will come as Caitlin grows
Can someone please help me?? I am on my first socks, and am using Silver’s Tutorial. I am using the beginner’s one, and am using 4 DPN’s. I am trying to start the Gussett, but I do not understand this at all:
Take a good look at the SS(slipped stitches) along the edge. Find the first SS closest to the needle on your right. Insert your working needle through both sides of the V from bottom to top.Moving the needle that holds your turned heel, knit exactly half to the needle on the right(using the right needle already holding stitches),(What do I do with the needle that has the SS thru it??) slip the other half to the needle on the left. IMPORTANT!!! When slipping the other half, slip as if to knit, not purl. Insert the left needle into each stitch stitch as if you were knitting it, and slip it off. Now you will have all stitches on 3 needles. There will be 25 stitches on needles #1 & 3. There will be 32 stitches on needle #2.
I am completely lost, any tips would be appreciated!
Lori
Hi Lori, You’re doing the same sock I am, I had to figure this part out yesterday, and here’s what helped me. Basically, what you’re going for is sticking loops of yarn through the edges and onto a needle so you can knit from them.
First, if you haven’t already, watch the video on “working the heel of a sock” under Advance Techniques on this site. (http://www.knittinghelp.com/apps/flash/video_player/play/4/1) Fast Forward to where the time display is 04:00.
The demonstrator in the video just uses the needle that’s already in the work to pick up the stiches. Silver has you picking up the stiches with an empty needle and later transfering them to a needle that’s already in the work, so you end up with the same thing.
I tried both ways and found them both kind of tricky to do. It’s probably something that takes practice. I ended up using a crochet hook to help get the stiches onto my knitting needle. The next time I do this I might try using a smaller knitting needle and see if that’s easier to manuver.
Oh, LoriSax, that has got to be the most complicated explanation of picking up stitches that I have ever read ! Poor thing ! I have never read all the way through one of those tutorials, but I definitely would have been lost with that instruction !
Good advice, KnitPit ! Let me also suggest reading[SIZE=5]these instructions[/SIZE], too…as i always do ! It’s my most favored way of picking up those gusset stitches !
Thank You!!! I will get started on this right away!!
Happy New Year!!!
Lori
Lori and KnitPit…I’m sorry you’re having trouble with Silver’s tutorial. I’m also doing the 4 dpn tutorial for the first time, and I actually get it. I can totally visualize what she means. I don’t think I could explain it differently, though. I don’t know what that says about me, but hey what ever works.:shrug: We’ll see how it goes when I actually get there. Visualizing and doing are 2 different things. KnitPit, your crochet hook was a great idea, though.
My comment on my second ever pair of socks is this. I did a gauge swatch using size 1 dpns. It turned out to be 9 st/in.!!!:noway: So for my DH’s feet I had to cast on 96 stitches!! I found that size 2’s were to open for this yarn-- http://www.novayarn.com/nv/Catalogue/1155.html .
I have only done 1 inch of the cuff and I feel like I’ll be at this forever. :shock: But I really like how they are turning out so far. I did this toe-up pattern – http://knitty.com/ISSUEsummer06/PATTuniversalsock.html for my first pair and I liked it except for the bind off at the cuff. No matter what I did, the cuff ended up stiff and tight. I even use a bigger sized needle, but I didn’t like it a whole lot. So seeing how stretchy the socks are starting at the cuff, I think I’m hooked.
Ok, I got the slipped sts on my empty needle. Am I supposed to slip the sts from the heel, or from the one of the 2 needles in the front of the sock?? Do you recall how many slipped sts you had?? I have 17. I think I have one to many??
Lori
Lori it doesn’t matter how many sts you pick up on the gusset-sometimes I pick up more or less than it calls for, you just have to be sure that you’re back to your regular number of sts when you’re done decreasing the gusset. Once your sts are slipped onto the extra needle I’d slip them on to the needle holding your heel sts (as if to purl) and then knit accross the needles that will be the top of the sock. Make sense?
I think I am missing a couple of pages and that is the problem. I have to go back and look at the tutorial, and hopefully that answers the questions I am having!!
Thank You so much…Lori