Socks Soar on 2-Circs?!?!?
I’m not ready to conceed that socks soar on 2-circs yet, but it sure appears so when you compare yesterday’s post to today’s. I’m serious that the knitting post from yesterday was where I was at yesterday morning. This is where I am at as of this morning. I know, that makes it look like the 2-circ method must be incredibly fast. But, I must confess that I had *hours* of knitting time yesterday. DH stayed home from work trying to catch up on sleep that has been robbed by allergies, so since he was kind of in my way and messing with my schedule I threw it out the window and knit at Textiles a Mano in the later afternoon. Then, several of us SnB gals got together for Happy Hour at a local bar/pub and then out to dinner. Between all of that and then waiting for DH to get home from his writing group (which wasn’t until midnight) I got the heel turned and few leg rows completed.
If you look close, you can see my heels have tiny ears. I suspect this will somewhat remedy in blocking, but I suspect I could work one more set of short rows to get a slightly narrower heel next time. I’m not suprised. I have one of those kind of feet that could almost use a wide up front by the ball of the foot and needs a narrow in the heel.
Overall I did an *okay* job on the wrapped short rows. The stitches worked with thier wraps on the purl side (right) just doesn’t look as tidy and there was one there where I fubbed the pick-up of the wraps. Any tips on cleaning up that side when I pick up the wraps on the purl side so they match the other side? I’m certainly not going to rip back. This is very much a learning sock so some imperfections are okay. I actually enjoy pulling out my Spring socks and looking at the bad Kitchner and comparing it to my more recent socks to remind me of how much I’ve learned.
Now, as promised yesterday, I have a winner to announce! The moving to a new server kind of wreaked havoc on my comments to that post, but I went based on the order that I got the e-mail notifications as in some cases those came through hours before the comments actually appeared on the post. The magic number was 700 comments. That may sound as an odd marking point, but 7 is one of my all time favorite numbers so I was excited to see that I was close to 700 comments and decided to throw the contest. I’ll also be sending out a prize for the 1000 comment so don’t fade away! If you all keep commenting you never know, it might not be too long before that mile marker is hit!
The winner? Well, it was the wonderful Margene! The secret prize will be winging its way to the red rock region tomorrow and I’ll let Margene unveil what she recieves.
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