{"id":184,"date":"2008-02-23T12:09:41","date_gmt":"2008-02-23T19:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/2008\/02\/23\/feather-and-fan-socks\/"},"modified":"2008-02-23T12:09:41","modified_gmt":"2008-02-23T19:09:41","slug":"feather-and-fan-socks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/2008\/02\/23\/feather-and-fan-socks\/","title":{"rendered":"Feather-and-Fan Socks"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The working of these socks is a long, complicated story. In previous socks I’d knitted, cuff-down, I was plagued by either running out of yarn right at the end, or, with so much left over that I wished I had made the leg longer. So, I wanted to try a toe-up pair. I started out with a pattern I found on Knitty.com, with a lovely traveling-vine type of lace pattern and a short-row heel. Once I had a few inches of foot, I decided they were going to be very baggy. So I ripped out and reworked the lace pattern to have more stitches per repeat. As I tried them on, they seemed to fit sleekly and looked lovely. However, a few inches up the leg, I discovered the whole thing was too small and I couldn’t even pull the sock over my heel. At this point, I took a long break from working on this project!<\/p>\n

Looking through a library book, I found a lovely, simple, feather-and-fan lace sock. I decided to completely rip out the vine-socks rather than ripping out to just before the heel to try a different heel style since that would have been most of the sock anyway, and I wasn’t totally happy with how the varigated yarn was working anyway.<\/p>\n

I worked the socks as shown in the pattern, except from the toe up. This worked out fine, and I like the garter-stitch rows at the ankle and cuff.<\/p>\n

I really like the feather-and-fan stitch design. It’s enough detail to look pretty but the yarn is a bit busy so the two don’t fight. Also it goes quickly because only every 4th row is pattern, the rest is all knit.<\/p>\n

I did have some sizing issues with these socks as I was working them. I worked the heel-flap twice because the gauge seemed looser once I switched to knitting back and forth as opposed to in-the-round, and I wanted the bottom of the heel to be tight and smooth and durable! So I ripped back and re-knit with size 0’s.<\/p>\n

Then, when I was a few inches up the leg, I was horrified to see that again it was going to be difficult to get the sock on my foot, but I didn’t panic – I ripped back to those garter stitch rows and started the leg using size 2’s.<\/p>\n

The whole reason that I knit these toe-up was so that I could use all of the yarn. It was looking like that was going to mean knee socks, which I was delighted with, since knee socks are my stay-warm-in-a-cold-house strategy and I wear knee socks every day from October to April. But, the socks weren’t going to go over my calves. I was toying with the idea of adding stitches to each of 4 pattern repeats, but wasn’t sure how to do it gradually and was afraid it would be too many additional stitches. Luckily, it was Monday and I was at the Knit Night at Market of Choice. Several experts there advised me to insert a new repeat at the center back, adding stitches gradually. This totally worked! I added 2 sts on every “round 3” of the pattern, and worked the “round 1” pattern as new number of stitches allowed. Saved!<\/p>\n

I’m quite relieved to have this project done! It’s been a long time coming.<\/p>\n

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