{"id":2290,"date":"2014-08-05T21:36:34","date_gmt":"2014-08-06T03:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/?p=2290"},"modified":"2014-08-05T21:36:34","modified_gmt":"2014-08-06T03:36:34","slug":"skewed-from-topic-socks-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/?p=2290","title":{"rendered":"Skewed from Topic: Socks Again"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s a post on my LiveJournal<\/a> about the completion of the seventh “short” sock.\u00a0 With pictures.\u00a0 But to spare you having to click on that link, I’m putting a picture here.\u00a0\u00a0 Also because it’s time to brighten the place up again.<\/p>\n

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The order of making runs from the red pair in the front left counter-clockwise around to the newest, the gold\/mustard ones next to the first red pair.\u00a0 And they all have names.\u00a0 The red pair is “Play Ball,” followed by Rainy Day Roses and Sunny Day Roses, then Desert Canyon Sunset, Tropical Lagoon, Summer Meadow, and Fiesta.<\/p>\n

All the yarns used are worsted weight, cast on with #7US needles and then worked on #5US needles.\u00a0 The socks are sized to my feet, so I cast on 56 stitches, moved them to the size 5 DPN, and knit four rows for the rolled edge.\u00a0\u00a0 Then I add the top stripe color, and work 3\/4 inch (6 rows for me) of 2×2 ribbing, return to the first color and work 5\/8 inch of plain knitting.\u00a0\u00a0 Take the back 28 stitches (needles 1 and 4) and work the heel flap in a reinforced stitch–usually Eye of Partridge–and continue that stitch under the heel for extra padding through the heel turn (and sometimes a row or two beyond.)\u00a0\u00a0 Sometimes I do the “picking up stitches” row with the first color, and sometimes start a new color right next to the heel flap.\u00a0 But a contrasting color marks off the heel flap at least by the row after picking up stitches.\u00a0 The gusset decreases are shaped for my feet (could be slower, but not much faster) and come down to 54 stitches for most of the foot, then to 52 (those decreases off needles 2 and 3, to make a count of 13 on each) before reading the “knob” at the base of the big toe.\u00a0\u00a0 All my socks are R & L, because of the shape of my toes but the basic design would work with a symmetrical toe. \u00a0 Striping is purely “at will” on the foot–the same colors, but different widths, and no attempt to match the striping on the foot section.\u00a0 The toe reverts to the first color, with a single row of a contrast on the fourth row of the toe.<\/p>\n

As a way of using up leftover yarn, this has been both practical and fun to play around with.\u00a0 But I’m going back to plain socks now, because I need to replace regular socks that have worn out.\u00a0\u00a0 Also, I”m short of leftovers, except for green.\u00a0\u00a0 Making more regular socks will give me more colors of leftovers to use.\u00a0 These seven pairs will be enough to finish out the rest of the hot-weather bike-riding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s a post on my LiveJournal about the completion of the seventh “short” sock.\u00a0 With pictures.\u00a0 But to spare you having to click on that link, I’m putting a picture here.\u00a0\u00a0 Also because it’s time to brighten the place up again.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-beyond-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2290"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2292,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2290\/revisions\/2292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}