Hours I have spent. Videos I have. On the blog they are not.
I cannot tell you how many times I have tried to get pictures or video into my posts, but it just won't work.
At least I have my albums!
I did manage to add some pictures of some fun Laura and I had working together. I made some things and gave them to her to play with. You gotta see what she did, so cute! Click on the Artist Spotlight album, then click on the pictures to bigger-ize them.
When you're done there, go to the Project Pictures and check out that purty sock! Okay, so that one picture makes it look a bit like a creepy, drooly little monster with a big mouth and funky curlers in its hair. But it's mine all mine! That sock could not fit my personal foot any better.
You'd understand if you could see the video.
Ah, well. At least you won't all be subjected to my laugh. I'm just glad it sounds better in my head.
But, what I most regret is that you miss out on the actual cutting of the yarn. The snipping, if you will. A sort of a "sock bris". (Thank you, Jane, for that one!) It was so much easier than I thought it would be! Not painful at all, when you got right down to it. Those lifelines keep all of your stitches in tact.
So, the leg was opened and I was able to try my sock on and it is wonderful! I don't have a terribly thick foot, so I only needed one set of six increases through the middle of the foot. One thing I did differently than the book, though, was how I staggered those increases. Barbara had the idea and was testing it out on her second sock when we started the knit-along, and I thought it would work well for me.
When I felt it was time to start my increases, I just increased one stitch in the middle of the sole of the foot every other row until I had increased six times. That made it a more gradual transition than the three or six increases at a time suggested in the book. Really lovely!
And now I have moved on to the leg and am left with just one regret. A hole. Don't know where it came from, how it got there, why, why, why! It's right at the star, under the ankle, on the inside of the foot.
Ah, well. Again. Wabi-sabi.
All that remains is decoration. Do I follow one of Cat Bordhi's patterns or make up my own? I do like the Tessellated Acorns on page 50. Or I could find a stitch pattern that I like and use that. Or I am a big fan of cables, and wouldn't that be interesting? Didn't I see a picture of cabled socks somewhere recently? Of course, I still really like the idea of leaving it plain and doing a little embroidery. Still think that would be so cute for Spring.
What to do, what to do...
