Some brief background: we moved, almost a year ago, back to the part of town I lived in prior to college, and I decided to take a trip to my former and now once again LYS to find one skein of sock-weight yarn to experiment with. While there, I spied a lovely multi-color tweed Lana Grossa Mega Boots (which can be found here: Lana Grossa) in shades of green, brick, mustard, and dark orange with a bit of black throughout. I couldn’t resist the temptation, so I grabbed it and some lovely olive sock yarn by Rowan. (Well, really, do YOU have control in the face of all that homeless yarn?)
Digression: Since I don’t have a decent digital camera (yet), I can only post what I have on CD. These images are from my handy little snapshot camera but don’t look so great because it is very difficult to get close-ups (the nature of snapshot cameras), and I am using Fireworks to modify the image size, but you get the idea.
Back to the knitting. Of course, I have no resolve, so when I saw this screaming out my name sitting patiently on the shelf it also came home with me.
What anyone can do with two underdeveloped small skeins of sock yarn is beyond me, but maybe I can use it for trim or toes and heels.
When I got home, I immediately cast on to make Merike’s Socks (my favorite from Nancy Bush’s Folk Socks), a pattern that I had been dying to try for several years.
After short spurts of knitting for about one week, I made it to the aforementioned toe, got annoyed, left it, looked at it, got more annoyed, then frogged.
Here is the reason why:
What is the deal with that heel?!?
It’s supposed to be the Shaped Common Heel, but it looks more like a Freak of Nature Heel or a cover-up for spike heels.
I frogged back to the heel turn, but was still unhappy with it.
I think a more severe frogging is in store for this sock—perhaps to the heel divide. I am definitely going to modify the pattern, but am not sure how. Right now I’m a bit uninspired. It’s possible that this unfamiliar pattern or the Lana Grossa (lots of elastic) is part of the problem. In the past, I have used 100% wool for socks, and although this makes for a nice and warm sock (cold winters here) it’s not always a sock that can be worn sans another sock underneath it due to its lack of elasticity. (Yes, it’s cold enough for layering wool socks in the winter.)
While I am avoiding contemplating what to do with this project, I will dig through my book stash, find my copy of Passage to India, and join a KAL.
