Dude! The Eight(ieth) Time's a Charm!

I lost my ability to read pattern instructions when it came to doing the yarn over heel on the Twinkleberry sock pattern, so I had to search the internet for help.

I sweated a couple of bullets looking at the instructions that popped up, but fortunately for me, I came across this link:

The easiest way to do a short row heel

This woman has saved me untold hours of sock heel making misery. I have recommended her two or three times already.

Thanks, Kaityvr!

It took me about 3 tries to learn the method, and a few more to make smaller holes and learn to recognize where I need to start knitting and purling the next slipped stitch.

If you try it, do your best to keep the yarn on the end loops close to your needle when turning and starting the next row. Also, keep count of where you are on each row. One easy way to figure out where you lost your place is to use a piece of yarn as a lifeline before you start the heel. Then you can count the number of rows you have worked to figure out how many slipped stitches are supposed to be on each side of the heel.

These double lines showed where I picked up the bar at the end of the row, which clued me in that I needed to knit that stitch, and pick up the bar for the next one.



I have had to frog back several times to make a decent heel with this sock, and having a lifeline saved me untold amounts of trouble.

My first yarnover heel

It looks like the pieces of this heel are not going to meet up, and I'm going to have big holes where the ankles should be. I'm going to ravelry for help. If I'm not back by Wednesday, please donate my pitiful stash to some worthy institution...

A closer up pic of the sock

Grits & Sticks picture

Knitting Group Meeting info:

For anyone interested, here is the schedule for the Crestview group for the next little bit:

April: 15th (this coming Tuesday), 29th
May: 6th, 20th
June: 3rd, 17th

We meet at 6:00 at Starbucks in Crestview every other Tuesday.

Think outside the sox contest

I'm going for it. I have no idea how I'm going to do it or what kind of yarn I'm going to use, but dudes, $6,000 is certainly worth an attempt.

If you want to design a pair of socks for the contest, or more than a pair (up to 5 pairs allowed), go to http://ThinkOutsidetheSocks.comfor the details and do your thing!