Patons classic wool slipper socks dpn to circular needles question

How-to Questions
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  1. I am knitting patons classic wool slipper socks. The pattern is set up for 3 dpns and I am using 2 circular needles. Knitting the leg pattern went OK with sections A, C on 1 needle and sections B, C on the second with 35 stitches on each needle. When I get to the heel the cable pattern is not quite centered. The pattern says to slip the first 4 sts from 1st needle onto the third and slip sts from the 2nd needle onto the third to have 35 stitches for the heel and leaving 35 stitches on needles 1 and 2 for the instep. Should I have adjusted the stitches on the 2 circulars when I started the leg so the pattern would have been centered? I ended up shifting 4 stitches from one circular to the other and knitted those 4 stitches to have the yarn at the beginning.

  2. The heel starts on the WS with P stitches and decreases to 31 sts. then cont. for 2 1/4 inches ending with a P row. The shape heel instruction is to P 20, P2 tog, P1 and turn, then do a knit row. Since the previous section ended with a purl row and this starts with a purl row, it puts purl stitches on the knit side and knit stitches on the purl side. Is this right?

I appreciate any help you can give me.

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It seems to me that the position of the cable doesn’t matter while you’re knitting the leg. When you get to the heel, you can center it then and then set up the heel. Once you place the heel sts, the cable will then be set and either centered or not.
I’d end with a knit row so that you can begin to shape the heel with a purl row and maintain the stockinette pattern if that’s the way you would like the sock to look.

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Please, could you post a link to the pattern, or a picture of it maybe? I’d like to see what they look like.

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http://www.yarnspirations.com/slipper-socks.html This is the link to the pattern I downloaded. The picture at the link is better than the one on the instructions.

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Thank you very much. I will do that.

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Thank you! Those look soooooooooooooo cozy and comfy. I was over at their site and looked and looked and…you get the idea…and never found them.