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Things I have been doing lately instead of writing, episode number infinity +1:
"Bee Girl", "Nadia", and "Barbie" -- LB "Wool-Ease", toe-up with short-row heels and toes.
"Superwash Wool Test #3", Mission Falls "1824 superwash wool", toe-up with short-row heel and toe.
"xWednesday's Night Out" (top) and "xBeeBaby" (bottom), LB "Wool-Ease", toe-up short-row heel/toe and toe-up increase-toe/short-row heel.
"xBlack, White & Red", LB "Wool-Ease", cuff-down with wedge heel and toe.
Funny story about that last one -- it originally had a square flap-style heel knit into it, which turned out to be way too big and floppy to walk around on, so I took it out and made a short-row heel, which was also too big and floppy to walk around on. So I ripped the heel out once more and simply decreased in pairs at the sides to match the toe, and now it fits reasonably well.
The Wool-Ease is fun to work with, especially now that I've settled on a pattern for it (the top three socks are built to the same specs) that fits just right and is relatively mindless to knit once I've planned out a stripe sequence that fits the multiple, but as you can just see in the scan of "xBeeBaby", which already has a hole in it, it might have wear problems -- but then again, part of why I got started with knitting socks in the first place was because I got tired of buying woolly hiking socks at $6 or $8 a pop only to have my floors eat them within a season, when I knew that for that much I could get a few balls of yarn and then have something mendable when the need arose. (And it's a when, in this house; I think what ate "xBeeBaby" was the rough spot under my desk where the previous chair gouged the floor all up when the right-front foot lost its rubber cap...)
"xWednesday's Night Out" actually has a bright-green picot bind off, but I think "xBeeBaby" blinded the scanner. :)
And no, I have no intention of making pairs of socks that match when they're just kicking-around-the-house-in socks anyway, so at the moment I am wearing "Bee Girl" and "Barbie". The effect is... questionable.
"Bee Girl", "Nadia", and "Barbie" -- LB "Wool-Ease", toe-up with short-row heels and toes.
"Superwash Wool Test #3", Mission Falls "1824 superwash wool", toe-up with short-row heel and toe.
"xWednesday's Night Out" (top) and "xBeeBaby" (bottom), LB "Wool-Ease", toe-up short-row heel/toe and toe-up increase-toe/short-row heel.
"xBlack, White & Red", LB "Wool-Ease", cuff-down with wedge heel and toe.
Funny story about that last one -- it originally had a square flap-style heel knit into it, which turned out to be way too big and floppy to walk around on, so I took it out and made a short-row heel, which was also too big and floppy to walk around on. So I ripped the heel out once more and simply decreased in pairs at the sides to match the toe, and now it fits reasonably well.
The Wool-Ease is fun to work with, especially now that I've settled on a pattern for it (the top three socks are built to the same specs) that fits just right and is relatively mindless to knit once I've planned out a stripe sequence that fits the multiple, but as you can just see in the scan of "xBeeBaby", which already has a hole in it, it might have wear problems -- but then again, part of why I got started with knitting socks in the first place was because I got tired of buying woolly hiking socks at $6 or $8 a pop only to have my floors eat them within a season, when I knew that for that much I could get a few balls of yarn and then have something mendable when the need arose. (And it's a when, in this house; I think what ate "xBeeBaby" was the rough spot under my desk where the previous chair gouged the floor all up when the right-front foot lost its rubber cap...)
"xWednesday's Night Out" actually has a bright-green picot bind off, but I think "xBeeBaby" blinded the scanner. :)
And no, I have no intention of making pairs of socks that match when they're just kicking-around-the-house-in socks anyway, so at the moment I am wearing "Bee Girl" and "Barbie". The effect is... questionable.
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