Lately I've been itching for fairly simple knits; things I can work on without constantly referring to a chart or a list of directions. I also realized that I've made a lot of socks for myself already (pairs numbering in the double digits in less than 2 years of knitting seems like a lot to me) and that I still have a lot of sock yarn left to go.
So, since the
Yellow Brick Road socks proved to be an easy pattern to memorize and travel with, I jumped on the 3rd quarter Socks That Rock Knit Along and cast on for a new pair of swirly socks (for someone else!).
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| toes with corrected gauge |
And they ended up oddly complicated from the start. Somehow, even though I used the same weight of yarn, the same needle size, and the same number of stitches as my socks from the
Edwardian Boating Socks, the toes for these seemed way too baggy and my gauge was 7 stitches instead of the recommended 8 for the pattern. I know that was February and this is now, but I still didn't expect such a difference. I let it go for a bit, but finally ripped both back and started over on US1 needles to get back to the progress shown above.
Now Xandermommy likes to point out that I'm a tight knitter, but it looks like she might be wrong. 8 stitches to an inch isn't a strikingly tight gauge for socks and I'm surprised I would need to knit Socks That Rock yarn on US1 needles to get it. I'm certainly not a loose knitter, but at this point she might have to agree that I'm just average!
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