I thought they were finished in September 2008 - at last! Tried them on and all seemed well.
But, after wearing them around the house for 3 hours or so, they started to feel saggy around my ankles.
Don't they know that I throw socks away when they get to that sagging point? Did I do all of this knitting just to wear these socks for only 3 hours?
No, No, No!!! Sagging hand knit socks are not OK!
Fortunately, one of my knitting friends let me borrow a book which totally saved my socks, Sensational Knitted Socks by Charlene Schurch.
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In addition to containing many cool sock patterns, this book contains a chart that I used to figure out how big the various parts of my sock should be: cuff, leg, heel flap, foot and toe.
After measuring my foot and measuring the sock, according to this book, the only measurement that was off was that I made the foot 2 inches shorter than it should be. (In my defense, it was the size of my favorite pair of socks - which were not handknit.)
Easy enough to test......unravel the toe, re-knit the end of the foot and the toe and give it a try.
Lo and behold, the sock does not sag now that the length of the foot is longer! Yay!!
Even though the sock looks a little goofy with that long foot portion, I need my socks to stay up!!!
All I have to do is get the second sock to match the first one, and the project really will be done!
2 comments:
It's so neat to read about your socks. I just started knitting socks this year and it took me four pair to really understand them. I'm going to try the toe up approach for my next pair.
I feel like I'm practically at the 4 pair count on this same pair of socks - with all the unraveling and reworking I've done!
Although I can't claim to understand socks yet!
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