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Yarnalong: Droving and Sussex Downs Murder
Once Upon a Sock: Droving
Phew, is it really December?
It’s the first Thursday of the month, so time to talk about some socks!
Once Upon a Sock: Tube Operators
It’s the first Thursday of the month — that means it’s time for some sock talk!
And friends, I’m pretty excited because … I have some finished socks to share!
Once Upon a Sock: Smooth Operators
Hi friends, and happy Thursday!
As you can see, Thursday sock time is back, under a slightly different guise. After some chatting amongst the group of us who blog about socks on Thursday, we’ve decided to move sock talk to a once a month format. So stop by the first Thursday of every month for some gabbing about socks!
My Tube Operators, as I’ve taken to calling them, are coming along, slowly but surely. I’ve inserted the waste yarn for my afterthought heel (the lavender strip between the pink and green stripes closest to my needle) and have been working on them here and there.
Thursday Sockalong: Smooth Operators, continued
Well, it seems it’s Thursday again, with Friday swiftly approaching (hoorah!), so let’s talk socks!
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Thursday Sockalong: Hermione Heel and a Walk in the Park
It’s Thursday and, friends, I have some sock progress to share!
I was all ready to write another post where I told you all about how I wasn’t making progress on my socks. I was planning to cast on Asagi last night. But yesterday was … a day. And by the time I sat down with a little time to knit, I didn’t have the mental or physical energy to cast on for a new project. So I pulled out my Hermione sock and had some therapeutic knitting time.
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Thursday Sock-a-long: Afterthought Heels
Hi friends, and happy Thursday from Kapiti Coast! My Marigoldjen Socks are just a smidge (and by smidge, I mean one row of kitchener stitch) away from being done. Over the weekend, I put afterthought heels in them and took some pictures of the process, which I thought I’d share with you. This is by no mean a full tutorial, but it’ll give you some sense of how easy they are to work if you’re thinking about trying them out!
The last few pairs of socks I’ve knit, I’ve done afterthought heels. I started doing them because I wanted to knit socks two at a time, and I thought it’d be easier to not have to worry about how to work two heels at the same time. I think they’re great for a couple of reasons:
- Versatility: you work them the same way regardless of whether your sock has been knit toe-up or top-down.
- Portability: afterthought heels are great if you’re knitting your socks on the go, because you just knit a tube with a toe, and insert the heel after the fact!
- Ease: there’s no picking up gusset stitches! (or turning of heels, or short rows, or, did I mention you don’t have to pick up gusset stitches!) You just decrease stitches in the exact same way you do for the toe of a top-down sock.
- Aesthetics: If you’re working in a self-striping or other self-patterning yarn, your heel won’t interrupt the yarn sequencing on the front of foot.
- Wear: if you tend to wear holes in your heels, afterthought heels are suuuuper easy to replace.
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