I cast on, and started the S-I-L sock
with great enthusiasm.
Day 1, 2.25 inches ribbing done.
Day 2, a solid 1.75 inches if the leg
done, getting the pattern established, and visible.
Day 3, (yesterday) 1.25 inches done...
Do you see the pattern? I love
knitting, but sometimes I get bored. There is hope though, I am now 5
+ some inches along on a 8 inch leg—and soon there will be a changes!
Most immediately, (3 rounds from now), the second decrease, and the
stitch count goes down to 76!
Hardy enough to notice, but I will,
just because. Then, not long after that, (just 3 inches away!) the
heel flaps and then the interesting gussets! Before that, 2 more
sets of decreases. The stitch count for the foot is 72
stitches—which is the same number of stitches I used in the pair of
socks I knit S-I-L last year.
So I have things to look forward to,
and my enthusiasm will return. And I am pleased as punch that I have
passed the half way point on the leg!
I might need a to work some additional
round, to make the increases work out evenly, though.
I am not using the suggested yarn—but
stash yarn, and while my stitch gauge (the really important one in a
sock!) is spot on, my row gauge is a bit tighter. I am supposed to
be getting 50 row per 4 inches/10cm—but I am only getting 44 rows--
This really doesn't matter much—It's easy (boring, perhaps, but
easy) to knit a few extra rounds to get the right length. I already
did that to some degree, and have a deeper ribbed cuff than the
pattern calls for. These sock do have some leg shaping, I don't have
to worry much about them being too tall, or too tight at the cuff
end.
I know from last year, when I knit
S-I-L socks from the same yarn, on the same needles, (and got the
same gauge) that the socks weren't too big—or too tight at the
cuff. Yes, those socks were ribbed, and ribbing does wonders and
make it easy to generate negative ease—but the bias panels, that
continue right down into the toe, do the same thing. They don't
generate as much negative ease as ribbing, but they do pull the
knitting in.
They change the gauge in effect. When
not stretched into the foam forms I used to photograph them, the
socks tend to have the back (already 2 stitches smaller than the
front) wrap to the front. The front fabric is tighter than the back—a
good sign.
