I’ve successfully been successful so far!:woohoo:
:yay: :yay:
If you can post a picture of what you’ve accomplished. I’d love to see.
I will shortly. I finished the toe … andthenIhadtofrogit! JK!
No, it’s going fine.:teehee:
I once again have cuffs for gloves. You’re frogging feet, I’m frogging hands. :hair: At least I’m not alone.
ETA just saw the JK, does that mean we’re both making progress?
This is as far as I’ve gotten. I am happy!:cheering: :happydance:
Do ya’ll like it?
:woohoo:
:?? What does that mean?
:woohoo: Means woohoo!
Means cool!
I’m celebrating with you. :woot:
I posted a pic of my glove cuffs in my blog thread if you want to take a look.
Aww thanks! I got alot futher last night so it’s more like halfway up my foot.
Those gloves are very cool! If you have to frog them so much, why don’t you just leave them as mitts?
I didn’t see the :woohoo: at first so you didn’t seem particularly exited.
Things are easy to miss. I saw it because I put it there. :teehee:
Are you doing a short row heel or something else?
I get what you said about the heel. There is something magical about toes and heels in sock knitting. I realized I like starting sox and knitting the toes, then it’s a matter of getting to the heel (whichever one I choose to do this time) so I can do it, then I have to finish the leg. 
One of these days I might find a short row toe to try. So far the ones I’ve looked at involve things like p3tbl. :evil: That’s not appealing.
I am determined to knit gloves with fingers. If they don’t work out on this pair I will finish them fingerless. I’m not frogging it all this time. I’m to the pinky fingers. Maybe this time will be the lucky time.
PS One thing I did notice is that I liked the look of the cuff down toe decreases.
I also like the cuff-down decreases so that’s why I tried to duplicate the look of it. I’ll probably do the short-row heel because that is what is on the pattern you showed me.
I like excitement in knitting so that is why I like knitting socks so much. I could never finish a scarf because all the sts were the same. I hope your gloves work this time!
Some people like short row heels just fine and you might too. They’re probably the best one to try first. My sox are a pastiche of patterns and how-to’s, videos watched and experimentation. It’s all good.
One pinky done and I think it’s OK. Onward.
:yay: :yay: :cheering: :cheering:
Why don’t they have cheerleaders on here?
:shrug:
:yay: :cheering: :yay: :cheering: :yay: :cheering:
Emoticon aerobics? I think of this one :cheering: as a cheerleader.
My pattern calls for knitting 1/4" in the round with the sts left after making the pinky finger, I’ve done that and so far see no holes. 
On to the index finger.
I’ve not looked at the Lifestyle Socks thing in a long, long time but seem to recall that I did not successfully complete my heels per the pattern and found another method. I’m not 100% sure. I was still fairly new to most things like short rows at the time and if I did it now might have no problems.
hmm… as i’m still working on mine with this recipe… and still new at it… i’m wondering about the short row heel… since i’m using magic loop method, am i going to leave the top stitches on the cord, and just work the bottom stitches, or will i need to put the top stitches on a holder, etc… i’m not to that point yet on either sock, but guess i should read ahead and figure it out…
What heel are you doing? I’ll try to run down a good video for you. Basically yes, you just let the other sock and a half hang out. Awkward at first but you soon get used to it.
You could move the other stitches to a holder but it’s such a PITA that I wouldn’t recommend it.
i hadn’t decided on a heel yet… the recipe/pattern from liat gat calls for a ‘faux heel flap’ which, i haven’t done or studied yet, and so don’t really understand.
but i’m open to just about whatever, with the one big exception of no picking up stitches. i don’t do that very well (frankie’s 10-stitch ribbed blanket fiasco, still OTNs). otherwise, i think i’m open to anything easy i can plug into the recipe. this being my first pair, worsted weight, etc, i don’t need to complicate matters. there’s plenty of time for learning better/faster/more stylish ways later on.
when i looked for ‘sock hEEL’ on you tube, i got 35,000 possibilities so i’m sure there’s something out there for me… 
(also, sock hELL gives almost 40,000 videos… hmmm… )
X, I’d say you have two options: The heel in Liat’s Faux Heel Flap pattern (she has videos for doing it, you don’t need to understand) or a short row heel (again, there are videos and you don’t need to understand) and the main difference is that for the faux heel flap you’ll need to increase to make a gusset. All heels end up having short rows for the turn as far as I know. You’ll love seeing the magical turn happen. It’s too c 
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I omitted the Fleegle Heel because it’s ugly. :mrgreen: In my way of seeing things, it’s a short row heel with a gusset.
Addendum: there is a pattern for a sock that starts with the heel which is round and you don’t do short rows for a turn, there is no turn. I’ve yet to try it but it’s on my list.
hmm… well, i thought maybe i wanted to do cat bordhi’s sweet tomato heel… except her own video of it left me all squinty-eyed and tongue-bitten, trying to follow along. i’m not sure how i’d go from front & back to front-back1-back2, with all those slipped stitches, and still keep my ribbing pattern, which is the whole front side… so, easier, yeah, i’m sticking with the faux heel or short-row, with the numerous videos, for now.
PS, looked for the heel-out socks, and didn’t find many options, except that crazy “double-heelix” one by a microsoftie who cures disease and conquers pestilence in her spare time… all my high school and college advanced calculus and trigonometry is gone by now, replaced with other more important lessons
argh… 3rd time’s a charm? really need to plug my laptop back in its docking station… i do hate the mouse touchpad on these newer models… anyhoo…
was going to edit my last post to add some stuff, but it’s a lot of stuff, so a new reply instead:
typed in ‘socks’ on ravelry and waited for the auto-fill responses to catch my eye, including ‘technique - start-in-middle’… which has 21 patterns, about 15 of which are actual socks (not just entirely different items made with sock yarn). they look… interesting.
one caught my eye just for the name and description - ‘string theory - …There is no need for a major in modern physics to knit these socks…’, which is my big bah humbug! perception with the ‘double heelix’ pattern i mentioned earlier. ‘string theory’ was also in knitty’s summer 2014 e-mag.
‘Escapology’ are a start-in-middle, and top-down, and toe-up houdini style sock, apparently created in a similar way to a cat bordhi style, unknown to the creators until after publishing, so now they’re making it free and encouraging everybody to go deep into cat-land for patterns, e-books etc.
‘Hyperbolic Hexagon’ ‘start at the point at which the foot meets the ankle at the top; works out in six (and later eight) directions; and ends with a long graft down the middle of the sole.’ and look very interesting with the seaming between the polygons.
‘Plantar Fasciitis’ (seriously, for a sock name?) is interesting because ‘…These socks have a squishy, padded garter stitch heel… begins at one heel gusset, works across the heel sideways, then decreases for second gusset… The toes are short row and also garter stitch. Due to the stretchy nature of garter stitch, these socks will fit a variety of adult sizes. They will also stretch for a while for a growing teen…’ GG, i thought of you and your grandson’s growing feet. maybe that’d buy you a few extra months in between pairs?
‘Grün ist die Hoffnung’ is interesting because you start by making a lace-pattern top panel, and building the rest of the sock around it,
there are more, of course, and i’m sure more that aren’t categorized as middle-out, but there ya go… link for the page with all of the ‘start-in-middle’ patterns is at http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/search#availability=free&pa=start-in-middle&photo=yes&craft=knitting&view=captioned_thumbs&sort=created
cheers, X 