I put my sweater aside and started on socks.
I have lost track of what number this attempt will be, but if I finish them, they will be my second pair of socks. The first pair I started before Sensational Knitted Socks came out, which I remember because I bought it since the reviews said it had toe-up and short-row heel instructions. (It does have both of those, but not to use together. It has every other combination except the one I wanted!) I had cobbled together my instructions from various online sources and thought it might be easier to make socks from a whole pattern next time since the toe instructions had different numbers of stitches from the heel instruction and back then most sites had you increasing for the gusset before the short-row heel would start, so there was a lot of backtracking. But the book did not help at all and I ended up thinking socks were very difficult.
This time I am using a pattern (Wendy Johnson’s “Generic Toe-up Feather and Fan Socks
“). I have checked my gauge and it is spot on. So far I have finished the toe and started on the main part of the foot. I might skip the lacework, I am undecided. But the short-row toe was interesting with good results (except for unzipping the provisional cast-on, no idea what I did wrong but it had to be laboriously picked out instead). Though I find the results similar to the Turkish Pocket method, which is easier.
The project has been named “Ceris Major” from the colors in the “Evil Stepmother” (clickable thumbnail, left) colorway of the Imagination (Knitpicks) yarn, cerise (red/pink) and majorelle blue. Projects that have names tend to get finished around here. Projects without names languish.
