sockin' it to ya

clearly this needed to begin with a pun.
i made my first sock!

ain't she perty? my favorite socks are dying. have a hole in the heel and they are a bit too thin for me to even contemplate darning. not to mention that seems a rather daunting task. so i looked at a ton of patterns online to see if i could find them. no luck. so then i stared at them for a long time. their heel did'nt look like the patterns i'd seen. this whole knitting a square heel and turning it held no allure for me. i liked the neat look of angled decreases. after reading a gazillion patterns from about.com, i learned that this was done through decreasing in short rows. which i will explain at a later date when i can do it properly. at this point i did it poorly, but it worked. and it's a hot sock.


here you can see the short row heel. no squares for me.

i decreased the toe in a similar manner. pattern: i used crochet cotton yarn meant for size 7 needles on size 3s. and it fits my size 12 foot. CO 51 st (i used three double points with 18, 18, and 15 st) rows 1- 2: k1 p1 rows 3-50: k2 p1 rows 51-54: k all put 26 st on 1 needle, 25 on another switch to contrasting color working 26 st needle, decrease 1 st at end of each row, for 16 rows (down to 10) increase back to 26 st rearrange stitches on three needles switch to original color k all for 52 rows pick up 26 st on sole put 26 st on 1 needle, 25 on another switch to contrasting color working on 26 needle, decrease 1 st at end of each row, for 16 rows (down to 10) increase back to 26 st join with original color
please note that the high difficulty is only because i had no idea what i was doing. the twin is proving far easier. note that the toe and heel are actually done the same way.

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