The second pair of socks I decided to make from 52 Weeks was Gerste by Verena Cohrs. I went with the suggested yarn in the book and bought some naturally dyed, natural sock yarn from Woolly Mammoth Fibre Co.
And why learn-a-lot socks? Because I used lots of new to me techniques on them.
First up Judy's Magic Cast On and M1R and M1L in the toes.
This took a little while to get the hang of.
Next German short row heels.
(Quite tricky taking a photo of your own heel)
I love the look of short row heels, but get a bit confused with wrap and turn short rows. I enjoyed these, even more so when I kept a close count on how many rows I'd done (something else I'm learning at the moment).
Finally I learnt a stretchy bind off.
A real game changer when putting the sock on your foot, and also worth taking some time to make sure it's relatively loosely done to make sure the stretch is maximised.
Really keen to make some more toe up, short row socks soon, their fit is great.
All the new to me techniques were found on the Internet, mostly on the kitty or purl soho websites.
1 comment:
Nice work! And always helpful if you can get your foot in your sock
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