Oh boy, where did yesterday go to! First off, yesterday morning started great. I washed and blocked the first pair of Spinning Ginny Original - Custom Ordered - Handspun - Knitted - White - Alpaca - Adult Ladies Socks - Size 6
Then because I'm waiting on the dye to arrive, so that I can do some dyeing this week. I took the left over yarn from this first pair of socks and started in knitting on a new pair of socks. This pair of socks will be different. You see, I had a customer mention that my handspun socks were a little loose on her feet, even though they were the correct size. So I decided to do an experiment. When I first started knitting socks, would knit patterns into them, but it took longer to knit them, even though they looked fabulous. So I started knitting plain socks and was knitting them up faster and just stuck with it. I like knitting both types of socks (plain and patterned) and want to please my customers. Well, anyways, I started in knitting on a new pair with the left over yarn and time got away from me.
I used the same number of stitches (60), but the pattern draws it in slightly. I don't know if you can tell from these pictures or not. The leg on this sock is finished and I have 4 1/2 rows completed on the heel flap. The pattern I'm using is a 4 stitch pattern with 6 rows that you repeat until you have the length you want. Since this pair is going to be a size 5, I only knitted 11 pattern repeats, plus 11 rows of ribbing and that gives me 6 1/8 inches for the leg.
Today I'll finish the heel flap, heel turn, and hopefully the gusset!
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