Recently on a Friday, for #fofriday on Instagram, @ggmadeit posted a blog post that detailed her finished project that week. I thought that was a really neat idea and thought I’d try it myself. I’m not going to do it for all of my finished projects, just the ones that I really enjoy, feel like are an accomplishment or those that I modified.
This is my first installment of recording an #fofriday this way.
I made the Hearth Socks by DanaRaeMakes. The pattern is available on Ravelry.
I watched these socks on Instagram for a while waiting for them to come out. I knew immediately which yarn I would use for them. I had a sock set in stash from Leading Men Fiber Arts from June 2019. It is the “he will have his revenge” sock set with the contrast color being "poison apple".
I was also planning on taking part in the #fallingleavessockkal2020 and these socks fit the bill. For the KAL the socks have to be fall colors or some how speak of fall. The Revenge color way has a gray base and the hearth pattern with the gray looks like a stone fire place, a warm place for fall.
The yarn is like I said from Leading Men Fiber Arts, in their Show Stopper base and the “he will have his revenge” colorway, with a “poison apple” mini. The Show Stopper base is a 75% super wash merino and 25% nylon blend. I use this yarn often for socks. I do put them in both the washer and the dryer. They come out great every time.
I have recently learned that I like the look and feel of a 3 x 2 rib. I knit socks using the same needle size and similar yarn weight when I knit socks for me. It makes it easy and not too much thinking. I just add in the pattern from the design I have chosen. A few weeks ago on Patreon where I follow The Yarn Harlot and Franklin Habit, I learned that when choosing a ribbing and sock pattern to look ahead and make them flow together, I did so.
Here are the changes I made.
I cast on 75 stitches and worked 12 rounds of ribbing. Using a mini for cuffs, heels and toes it takes just a bit more than the 20g in a mini to do that, so I kept the cuff ribbing short.
I then shifted the pattern so that the slip stitches were in the center of my 3 knit stitches from the rib.
Then I was off and knitting. I’m a mirror knitter and sometimes things can get interesting and confusing. Thankfully that didn’t happen with this pattern. By happy accident, when I finished my heel flap, the place where I usually pick up an extra stitch close the hole on each side of the foot, was a slip stitch. I am very pleased with how this turned out.
Dana has the back of the heel to be very pointy. Honestly I don’t like the look. I finished the first heel and had worked a few rounds on the foot, saw how pointy it was and said I wasn’t going to do the other one that way. When I finished the sock, I was at Mom’s. I showed her how pointy the heel was. I then put the sock on... I made the second sock the same way. While the look off the foot is odd, the fit is great! I will be doing this for future socks.
This is the first sock where I have worked the decreases on the gusset so that the decrease lines can be seen. I have asked a company about making stitch markers that indicate which decrease to use, so that I can then place the marker on the side that needs that decrease.
My last round before the toe I chose to work as plain knit in the main color.
I did run just a bit short on the 2nd sock. My friend and neighbor, @coffeenapknit rescued me. She had a mini and I borrowed, used what I needed and then returned it.
I am very pleased with these finished socks and their fit!
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