At 08:10 AM 2/26/01 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>>. . . -has anyone a really easy (and I mean really easy) sock
>>>pattern they would like to share with me? I have made baby bootees
>>>before but never attempted socks. I'm not too good with Dp needles
>>>but will persevere.
Elizabeth Zimmermann's "Moccasin Socks" -- "November" in _Knitter's Almanac_
-- are overgrown baby booties.
I only made them once, and don't remember how I made the length correct.
When I make my flap-heel socks, I try them on several times during the last
two inches.
Socks are intrinsically easy: a tube with a bend in it; all you really need
are clear instructions for making the bend.
The three most-popular ways to make a bend:
1. Knit a flap on half the stitches, then pick up stitches on the sides
-- a longer flap makes a sharper bend. There are several methods
of avoiding peaks at the corners of the flap; it's customary to make
a great deal of fuss about "turning the heel" but almost anything
will work.
The extra stitches picked up -- the "gusset" -- are
decreased away rapidly at first, then every other row until gone
or almost gone. I like to decrease the last few away slowly.
If you use a dense stitch -- slip-stitched or stranded --
on the heel flap, you must increase on the first dense row, to
compensate for the higher stitch count. I strand all my heels, and
knit every fourth stitch of the first row with both strands.
2. Work short rows on one-half to two-thirds of the stitches
-- more stitches make a sharper bend.
3. Leave or make a gap -- one-half to two-thirds --
and fill it with an extra toe.
Elizabeth Zimmermann sometimes made socks with no heel, then tried them on
the prospective wearer, snipped a stitch, picked the thread back to make a
gap, and used the extra-toe method. She called this the "afterthought heel".
--
Joy Beeson
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