More Progress!
Thanks to quite a bit of movie watching this weekend (Mystery, Alaska, The Big Sleep, Hudson Hawk, a couple episodes of FireFly and X-Files) as well as quite a lot of alone time yesterday with the House marathon on USA (6 hours to be exact, though I didn’t watch 6 episodes of House, my limit is two in a row so I sprinkled some other recorded shows in there) and I have a fair bit of progress to report since last you saw the knee highs.
I have to admit to moments of delusion when I thought I stood a chance of getting the knee highs done before midnight on Tuesday. Maybe I would have if Saturday hadn’t been almost free of knitting. I tried to knit during Hudson Hawk, but due to a projection system at the home where we watched it there just wasn’t enough ambient light and I screwed up within the first 30-45 minutes or so and decided it best to leave it until I got home and could fix it in full light.
I am still finding the two socks on two circs to be pretty pleasant. I wanted to do the heel flap on the bottom of the foot ala Simple Sox at Needletrax (PDF). So on Friday I traipsed around the area looking for two 24″ US1 Addi Turbos. I transferred the back of the sock to the longer needle when I started the gusset. When I got near to done with the gusset I transferred back to the 16″ circular for now. It fits into my purse/bag a bit easier that way. I know once I do too many increases for the calf I’ll want to switch to the longer needles though.
I’m really chugging along on these. I started them 8-9 days ago and I’m into the leg by a couple of inches - on two socks! Now, if I’m in a hurry I can whip out an entire sock at this gauge in one week. But I have more then half of two socks! I think I’ll be starting my calf shaping in a few more inches. I have the math all ready to go — measurements and stitch and row gauge noted etc. I just need to do a little more research into the method and rate of increase I want to do - just two sts on either side of the panel up the center back and do so more frequently, or do I want to increase 4 sts and do so less frequently? I’ll also wait to decide on the rate of increase until I have decided when I need to start them and thus know how many inches of height I’ll have to reach the maximum circumference of the leg.
While I’m quite positive these won’t get done by the end of Socktoberfest, I suspect they won’t take much more than another week or so. For one, Novemeber starts and with that NaNoWriMo. This means not only days home alone but at least one night a week and even when I’m not home alone I suspect I’ll have more than enough time to knit and read. This week it means last night and tomorrow night (kick-off party) and Wednesday night (regular write-in).
