What’s Wrong With This Photo?
Over the weekend we spent a fair bit of time hiding in the basement trying to keep cool. There was much DVD watching - movies and TV series. If I wasn’t asleep due to the drowsiness of muscle relaxers I was knitting. I got the latest socks up to the heel and started Sherman heel attempt number one. However, there were two problems and at 3/4 of heel number one I realized the glaring error and decided it needed ripped out. Anyone know what is going wrong? I’ll admit the one error you can’t really see in this photo and the other isn’t as obvious as it could be if I had kept the entire sock in the shot.
The obvious problem that it should not have taken me 3/4 of a heel to notice is that I forgot to switch to the contrasting yarn for the heel as originally planned. Oooops! Let’s just blame that on heat brain and muscle relaxers, shall we? The other problem will be more evident below…
Holes in my short-rows! There will always be small holes in short rows. Some yarns will disguise them better than others. A mostly cotton blend would not be one of them. Even so, these are pretty bad holes and not ones that I expect will minimize with washing. I believe I’m picking up and executing the “purl encroachment” stitch incorrectly. Seeing as how this 3/4 of a heel is knit in the wrong yarn, it isn’t a big deal. I’ll just rip and re-do in the proper yarn and hopefully this second time it’ll go better. I haven’t ripped yet though as I’m not looking forward to picking up those tiny stitches in this rather splitty yarn (typical of cotton, and this is the best cotton sock yarn I’ve worked with so far). I’m hoping to find the patience to do so today. Wish me luck! ;-)
If you’re thinking about trying a different short row heel sometime, I am using a combination of the following three sites to guide me:
