Using two non-matching 50g balls of sock 4ply yarn from stash.
Started making socks with 1×1 rows of each colour but decided to make them with blue heels/toes and red/variegated feet/legs to show of my favourite-ever-but-now-discontinued Regia sock yarn.
A variation on the pattern: using the stitch pattern on my usual Wendy D Johnson toe-up sock with the basic gusset heel. Using a thicker sock-weight yarn this time than the ligh-fingering of the Wendy Happy that I used last time. I only have one ball of this yarn, though, and so this may end up being two very short anklet-socks or one longer prototype.
23rd April 2012
There was only enough yarn in this one ball for one sock. As a proof of concept it proved that the SKYP stitch pattern works on a toe-up sock and that I like this yarn.
Apr 7 2012:
The pattern is for sport weight yarn (which we cannot buy easily at the LYS in the UK). I am trying this out using a light fingering weight yarn (left-overs from another pair of socks) and a 2.25 mm needle (magic-loop).
If I manage to complete this it will be my first ever completed top-down (non-toe-up) sock!
/me crosses-fingers-and-toes
Tue 10 Apr 2012:
My blog post about these socks: I have finished one and started the second!
I find the row of purl stitches between the cuff ribbing and the leg portion of the sock pattern a little strange and, if I was to knit them again I might leave that row out. I might also use this stitch pattern on a toe-up sock pair using Wendy D Johnson’s “basic gusset heel” in the future as I am enjoying knitting it.
Reverse engineered from some photos on flickr of something someone else had knit. I will type up what I did and make a note of it in a private post on my blog for my future use. I will not publish this as a pattern because it will break copyright of the person whose pattern I reverse engineered.
I have finished my first ever top-down sock and started the second. I tried to knit one once as my first sock and could not get my head around the heel flap and gusset instructions. Since then my knitting skill has levelled up a LOT and I have knit many many different typed of toe-up socks albeit with short-row heel, heel-flap and/or gusset and so when I saw this pattern mentioned on a knitting video podcast (The Knit Girllls) I decided that I would give it a try with some left over Wendy Happy light-fingering sock yarn, even though the pattern (free, via ravelry, “Skyp Socks”) called for sport-weight yarn (a yarn weight I have yet to find for sale in a LYS in the UK.
Maybe that is what we call 6 ply? We call fingering-weight / sock-weight yarn “4 ply”, whatever spinning ply the yarn actually is.
Trying out stitch patterns for a thicker, colour-work (stranded) preemie hat.
Finished except for sewing in ends and working out how best to block it.
Sizes (in diameter): small (~22”), medium (~23”), large (~24”)
Surely the pattern means mean circumference not diameter? My head (pretty large) measures 23” in circumference which is a 7.3” diameter using the maths formula that circumference of a circle = pi (π) times the diameter and so diameter = measured circumference divided by π (where π = about 3.14159). I even checked Wikipedia for those formulae in case my memory for highschool maths was flawed and it was not.
I am going to assume that they mean circumference and knit the medium size.
This is how I knit and I started to knit this way having learned to knit English style (throwing) as a child and then more recently also learned to knit continental style so that I could knit two colours with both hands. My throwing developed into flicking (flicking is almost the mirror image of continental as opposed to throwing) after that.
I had been meaning to make a video or blog post about this but then, today, I found this video (youtube):
I am using left-over 4ply/fingering -weight yarn and this photo shows how close to the wire this square got: look at that tiny bit of yarn I had left! I think that I have worked out how to continue this into a scarf, taking into account my aversion to the wrong-side of knitting and what the wrong side of this technique looks like because of how I pick up stitches. I am hoping to make notes on my iPad so that I don’t forget my thoughts!
See also this project on Ravelry.
Also, no, I have not blocked this yet!
I made some mitts based on the twisted rib in the Nereid Mitts that I made over here but without the Pomotamus lace pattern – just twisted rip from cuff to fingers.
I cast on with 72 sts of a tubular in-the-round cast-on (youtube) on 2.5 mm needles and not start knitting tbl until the next row of ribbing (on 2.25 needles), i.e. row 2 of the ribbing.
Thumb in the same place as Nereid, increasing to 19 sts (instead of 17 sts for my chunky thumbs) before putting thumb sts on waste yarn and completing this 22 row repeat and casting off (tubular). Picked up 8 sts to complete thumb with. Purled first of reserved sts together with last of picked up sys to make an even number of sts for the twisted rib. 7 rows and then cast off (tubular).
