Stacked Rib Socks

Gauge:  8 stitches to the inch in stockinette

Needles:  2.25 mm, US 1

Yarn:  50% superwash merino, 50% tencel, 380 yards of fingering weight.  Sample socks used aprox 320 yards.

Size:  Women's medium

Rib Pattern:  Rounds 1 thru 8 - (K2, P2), repeat to end of instep/round.

Rounds 9 thru 16 - (P2, K2), repeat to end of instep/round

Directions:  Using Turkish or Figure 8 cast on, cast on 32 stitches, 16 on each needle.  Knit 1 round plain.  Place marker indicating start of round.  The first 16 stitches are the instep stitches, the second 16 are the sole stitches.

Round 1:  (K1, Right leaning increase, knit 14, left leaning increase, K1), repeat for sole stitches.

Round 2:  Knit

Round 3:  Instep:  K1, Right leaning increase, knit to 1 stitch before end of instep, left leaning increase, K1.

                Sole:  K1, Right leaning increase, knit to 1 stitch before end of sole, left leaning increase, K1.

Directions for increasing can be found on Knitty, here.

Repeat rounds 2 and 3 until there are 60 stitches total, 30 instep and 30 sole.  To make socks larger, continue repeating rounds 2 & 3 until desired size is reached. 

Work 8 rounds plain.

Begin Rib Pattern on Instep stitches only. 

Continue in pattern until sock is approximately  1 1/2 inches short of desired length (a little past the ankle bone when tried on.)

If you wish to add extra ease stitches for the heel, add them to the sole stitches.

Work across instep stitches in pattern, then work short row heel on Sole stitches only. 

Row 1:  Knit 29 (or until 1 sole stitch remains), wrap the last stich and turn.  (Bring the yarn to the front between the stitch just worked and the next stitch, slip the next stitch from the left needle to the right needle, turn work around).

Row 2:  Slip first stitch as if to purl, purl 28 (or until 1 sole stitch remains unworked), wrap the last stitch and turn. (Move the yarn to the back betwen the stitch just worked and the next stitch, slip the next stitch from the left needle to the right needle, turn work around).

Row 3:  Slip first stitch, Knit to 1 stitch before wrapped stitch, wrap as in row 1 and turn.

Row 4:  Slip first stitch, Purl to 1 stitch before wrapped stitch, wrap as in row 2 and turn.

Repeat rows 3 & 4 until 10 stitches remain unwrapped. 

Next Row:  Slip first stitch, Knit to first wrapped stitch, knit that stitch, wrap next stitch as in row 1 and turn.

Next Row:  Slip first stitch, purl to first wrapped stitch, purl that stitch, wrap next stitch as in row 2 and turn.

Repeat these last two rows until only 1 double wrapped stitch stitch remains. 

Repeat Knit row only. 

I do not knit my wraps as I like the effect, so the directions do not include this step.

Resume knitting in the round. 

Work in pattern across 30 stitches.  Begin pattern on next 30 stitches on round 1 or 9 of rib pattern.

If extra ease stitches were added, decrease them away in the first 2 to 3 rounds.

Continue working in pattern until sock is desired length, ending with round 8 or 16. 

Work a Yarn Over bind off as follows:

Knit first stitch, (YO, K1, pass first stitch and YO over the last stitch worked), repeat until no stitches remain.

Weave in ends.

Copyright 2010 by rosegil.  Please use this pattern for your personal use and not for mass production.

Yarn used was handspun fiber from Fiber Optic in colorway "Honeysuckle Rose", 2 plies.

Schrodinger's Cat

may or may not be dead.

Gil thinks that his cat should have been more sensible and just smooshed in the top of the box. 

The Quantom Paratsox are done!  However, my feet have insufficient length to put a box on the foot.  If I had, the end of the box would have been at the toe.  The boxes were illusion knit in the round, with a technique that the Tsarina call "festive illusion".  Festive illusion is a method that does not involve weaving floats the entire way around.  I did 4 boxes, 2 on each tsock, 1 question mark and 1 cat per tsock

The Tsocks

A box

And the question is...

With a cat -- alive or dead?

Is the cat alive or dead?  Depends on how you look at it! 

But, everyone knows that Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead.

Fiber to garment

I finally finished the Brattleboro Hat (ravelry) and the Maine Morning Mitts (ravelry).  The pink yarn is 2 plys of the pink, 1 ply of the white and 1 ply of glow in the dark sewing thread.  I also held a second strand of the sewing thread with the yarn as I knit.  The plain white fiber I had gotten at Mannings.  The yarn is Navajo plied.

The camera was being VERY uncooperative, and wouldn't take a picture in the dark when the yarn was glowing, but trust me, it glows.

The Hat

The Pink Fiber

The Pink Yarn

The Mitts

This is NOT good

Knit Picks now has spinning fiber.

Weird, or is it Wierd?

I can never remember. Whichever it is, that's what this past weekend was.

At 3:56pm on Friday, I got a call from someone whose calls normally involve major thought. This one didn't. He was just calling to say that he appreciates what we do.

On Friday and Saturday, there were tickets in the bin for people who had the same names as people I work with.

Saturday evening, a guest asked me if I was a Girl Scout Leader because she'd seen me at Indian Echo Caverns that day.

On Sunday, someone at church said (to me) that "you girls are just growing so much". OOOKKKAAAY. Someone's hamster isn't doing well.

And, finally, the girl at Panera's had my order in the computer before I was even to the counter. Either I go there to often, or I need to change what I get.

Nightmare!

I finished the Nightmare Socks!!

They are the May Tsocks. More info on the pattern is available here.

I did 4 rounds between the gold lines on the cuff. I was trying the socks on as I went, and when I had done two repeats of the clock pattern, I felt that a third repeat would make them too long. (This ended up being incorrect, but I'm not frogging.) Another consideration was the fact that I need to make very long heel flaps.

My heel flaps still ended up a little short, mainly because I completely forgot how knitting shrinks vertically when I put the socks on -- this also played into the length of the leg.

Anyhoo, the socks are done. The bicycles are done. The clocks are done. The clocks are not great nor are they symetrical, but they are done. These tsocks are even safe from Mother. She said she didn't want them and that my bicycles did not have enough of a frame.

I didn't do any french knots because french knots and I have NEVER EVER EVER gotten along.

Now it's on to the evil mobius tsocks. mwahahah. Mother wants them, in a different color.

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the online Sorting Hat, I am in....



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