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Socks are finished 



I finished the black and white striped socks. I wasn't able to find a lot of online (free) references to afterthought heel instructions, so I made it up myself. The idea is that you knit some waste yarn into the sock where you want the heel to be (i used half of the total number of stitches). I discovered that the best place in the striping pattern to insert the heel and keep the striping is half-way through a stripe (a gray one in the picture below). Then after the rest of the sock is done take out the waste yarn, pick up the live stitches and make the heel. I tried to match up the yarn to half-way through the same color stripe so the pattern would continue in the heel. I also picked up a stitch on either end of the heel stitches so there wouldn't be little hole there. Then all i did was decrease 4 stitches every other row. Since i was knitting on two circular needles, i knit two together at the beginning and end of each needle. It is not a very fancy decrease, but it seemed to work well. I attempted a kitchener stitch to sew up the heel, but it ain't too pretty so there will be no close-ups of that.


 

Posted: Mon - June 13, 2005 at 02:13 PM           |

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