now it’s my turn with another question. :teehee:
i followed the advice of this thread and picked up an extra st right under the working needle. since i accidentally needed to knit an extra heel flap row to end on the right side, do i need to pick up a total of 18 sts? (that’s the original 16 in the tutorial + the extra st to eliminate a hole + one more for my extra row of heel flap.)
here’s a pic of what it looks like right under the cuff. i’ve got 17 sts picked up.
I did it, but it is not right. It is not a square triangle like the pic. Mine is crooked. I have 26, 25, and 34 stitches. I have no clue how to take this out and get back to the beginning. Any suggestions??
Lori
besides 
, i can’t really help you much with that. i’m only on my first sock. :teehee: but i know that if you combined all the socks that have been knit by everyone in this KAL, it would probably be enough for every soldier in the trojan war to get a pair. so i have no doubts that you’ll get set right as rain in no time! 
I think I got it. It is not perfect, but working. Thank You Lady Violet for your help!!!
Lori
[FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=3][COLOR=teal]Sorry to have missed the SOS’s today, girls…I’m subscribed to this thread so that I get a reminder when someone posts to it, and it hasn’t ‘gone off’ all day ! I thought maybe everybody was gone for the weekend! Dumb ol’ computer![/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT]
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[FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=3][COLOR=#008080][COLOR=green]GJ, in my head, you sound just like my[/COLOR][SIZE=5][COLOR=magenta] mother :roflhard: ![/COLOR][/SIZE][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT]
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[FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=3][COLOR=olive]Lori Sax, hi ! :waving: and [SIZE=5][COLOR=red]WELCOME ! [SIZE=3][COLOR=olive]So sorry I wasn’t around to help earlier ! [/COLOR][/SIZE][/COLOR][/SIZE][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT]
[FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=3][COLOR=#808000]I’ve been playing around with my quilting program, EQ5, so I know the signal didn’t go off here ![/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT]
[FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=3][COLOR=#808000]It sounds like you got straightened out,though…[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT]
[FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=4][COLOR=darkorange]Way to go, socksters ! :notworthy:[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT]
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[FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=3][COLOR=darkorchid]LadyViolet, just knit one extra stitch first, then knit a couple of stitches on the instep needle; now, stop and look at that section, pull on it a little, and see if it looks ‘holey’…you’ll know if you need to add another stitch still ! Your photo looks like one might be enough, but photos can be fooling ![/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT]
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[FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=3][COLOR=magenta]GJ, I loved her severely, and miss her dearly…so you’ve found a good place ! 
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Hey everybody! You all are knitting such gorgeous socks!! :mrgreen: I haven’t posted much lately, mainly lurking around the forum, but wanted to just say that I am almost finished with my second sock of my first pair!!! I will post pics of the finished pair when I’m done. :woohoo:
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ya lost me. i am reading silver’s tutorial (for the first time) as i go along, so i don’t know anything about the instep yet.
:figureditout: maybe i should just knit everything according to the tutorial for the first pair and figure it out from there. oh yeah. can’t do that now what with the extra two rows on the heel flap. :wall:
ok. how’s this. it looks like there might be a hole in the finished sock between those two needles where you can really see the bar (just under the cuff). if i pick up a stitch there (for a total of 18) and then on the next time around k2tog at the bottom of the heel flap (leaving me with 17) is that going to mess me up with row/stitch numbers according to the tutorial?
just read your advice again, and all i have is a cuff, a heel flap, and a heel. i don’t know if i’ll be able to tell anything by pulling that on. the only thing that would be “on” is the cuff. :think:
I’m subscribed to instant email too Dotty, and I didn’t get an email all day either!
I am :waah: because I stayed up 2 hours last night working on MY socks and I gauged a swatch and according to more sensational knitted socks I needed to increase the toe to 80 sts for my foot, which seemed like a lot, but I thought with the pattern that maybe it had to be bigger, nope, had to it all this morning and then we were gone all day so I haven’t gotten back to it. But I’m now looking for another pattern to use.
??? Have y’all found that if you subtract 10% that the sock fits best, even with patterns? My foot is 9" around and I’m getting 9spi so that’d be 81, right? but then if I subtract the 10% I could probably do 72 just fine for a pattern, right? I think I usually knit 72 for my foot, but then again I’ve only been able to knit myself 1 pair. confused? me too. Dotty, any ideas?
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[FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=3][COLOR=olive]I need to just check it more often.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT]
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[FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=3][COLOR=darkorchid]Okay, LadyViolet, I didn’t say ‘pull it on’, I said ‘pull on it’ ! :roflhard: [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT]
[FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=3][COLOR=#9932cc]Now…when I said instep, I’m talking about the needle still holding all the stitches for the top of the foot…you know, [U]the stitches you HAVEN’T been working[/U]. After you pick up the stitches along the slipped stitches (up the side of the heel), yes, if you’ve done more rows than they said (why did you do that, by the way?) you [U]will[/U] have to pick up more than they say ! What I meant was, {after picking up a stitch in every slipped stitch…holding that needle in your right hand, and the needle with the held stitches from the cuff, in your left hand, is there more room between them than between two normal stitches? To experiment, knit the first stitch off of the held cuff stitches…now look at the base between that stitch and the one that was knitted before it. Can you poke your finger in there easily? If so, you need to tink that first instep stitch, and go back and pick up however many you need to do to close that hole ![/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT]
[FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=3][COLOR=#9932cc] I’m not familiar with the sock tutorials, but they usually tell you to pick up # on this side, knit across the held stitches, pick up # on that side, and then knit across half of the heel stitches. Then they have you knit a plain round and then a decrease round…(or vicey-versy) for # rounds. If you pick up an extra stitch or two, all you’ll have to do is repeat those two rounds once or twice more. [COLOR=red]The [U]number [/U]of times they tell you to do the two rounds is not important…what’s important is [U][I][B]doing the two alternating rounds until you get back to the amount of stitches you had when you started the heel ![/B][/I][/U][/COLOR][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT]
Hi late night Socksters!!
I’ve enjoyed catching up with all the posts and hello to all the new KAL’ers. :waving:
I probably can’t add anything to the “hole” issue, I’m a new sock knitter myself but as dotty described I also pick up a couple of extra stitches as needed. You may start out your gusset with more stitches over all than the tutorial, but it just means you end up kntting a round or 2 more on the decrease rounds to get back to the number of stitches you need to continue your straight knitting to the toes.
GJ, hope you’re knitting now and then with good result.
jberry16, my 2 pair of socks that I knit on size 1 dpn’s were on 72 stitches and both my daughter and my foot are about that size around. When I used size 2’s I went down to 64 stitches. But that’s the extent of my limited experience. I’ve only got as far as 3 pair.
yea knitwit628:woohoo: Looking forward to seeing your 1st pair!! I just finished sock 1 of a pair (pair 3) and I’m gonna’ post a pic anyway!! If I waited until I had finished pairs you’d only hear from me once a month. :teehee: In fact, I just cast on yesterday for the second sock to complete pair 2. So now I’ve got to finish that one before I can start a totally new pair. That’s my unwritten rule to avoid succumbing to SSS. 
So anyway here’s my Tofutsies Tumbling Block sock. This is the first time I’ve strayed away from Silver’s tutorial and the toe was a bit different on this pattern. It was called a star toe decrease. I thought I’d go ahead and do it and see what it looked like. It was just k2 tog with the spaces between decreasing for a set number of rounds. No kitchener stitch to finish, just cut and draw the yarn through. Like I’ve done on hats before. I think I like the toe decreases on Silver’s better so I’ll probably go back to that on my next pair.
What sock to knit next… mmm…:think:
[FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=3][COLOR=deepskyblue]jberry, I just now measured around my foot for the first time ![/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT]
[FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=3][COLOR=deepskyblue]It measures 9 inches too, and the biggest stitch count I’ve ever made for myself is 72 stitches…I think the Pomatomusses had 72, and I just looked…the 9 to 5’s did too. Usually I have to knit 72 stitches on size 1’s with really fine fingering weight.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT]
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[FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=3][COLOR=darkolivegreen]Yay, cinnamongirl, and knitwit ! Keep showing us those socks…one at a time is okay…heck, I have to share them atleast once before one is even finished ! [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT]
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[FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=3][COLOR=blue]I’ve been talking to my quilting friend this week, and feeling guilty for NOT quilting, so , since I’m between socks right now, I immersed myself in quilt design today. This computer and that design ate up the WHOLE day ![/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT]
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[FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=3][COLOR=#0000ff]Here’s what I’ve come up with so far…these are just the fabrics that are in the computer program…I WISH I had them…it’ll look quite a bit different when I make it with my stash. http://www.flickr.com/photos/dottycam/1349237908/[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT]
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glad i could be so entertaining. 
sometimes i think my brain is just dyslexic. can you imagine if i HAD pulled it on? :roflhard:
i’ll read the rest of your post tomorrow. seeing as how i read your earlier post wrong hours ago, i think i’m way beyond my safe-sock-knitting-post-reading point. i think i should probably go try to recover some brain cells now and save the :knitting: for later.
Aha…the choosing of the next sock-knit !
In the running are…
Donyale – http://black-dog-knits.blogspot.com/2006/11/donyale-beneath-garter-st-border_27.html
Chevron Lace socks – http://www.knittingonthenet.com/patterns/sockschevron.htm
just for a fun quick knit.
Rainy Day socks – http://www.magknits.com/Mar07/patterns/rainy.htm
(what to use? )
Ruffled Garden socks – http://www.magknits.com/Aug07/patterns/ruffled.htm
Eleanor – http://www.socktopia.net/patterns/eleanor-2.pdf[COLOR=red] [B][U] This one’s a pdf…don’t click it if they make your computer freeze up like they used to make mine ![/U][/B][/COLOR]
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[FONT=Arial][COLOR=black]6. Lacy Scallops socks – http://files.blog-city.com/files/aa/3830/b/lacyscallops.pdf [COLOR=red][B][U]another pdf ![/U][/B][/COLOR][/COLOR][/FONT]
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DONYALE!!!
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Has anyone use Cherry Tree Hill Supersock to knit sock Monkey (Cookie A) before ?
I vote for Donyale!