02/04/2005
Socks
Hot of the needles - pink striped socks. The second sock was knit twice, the first time I knit with fewer stitches than on sock-one despite actually having written the number down, but apparently I wrote the wrong number !!
Unfortuanately the tension is rather different betwen the two, perhaps I've become more relaxed between the two? :-) I don't know what the heel-type is called, but it's one where you knit 2 needles of contrast yarn where you want it placed and continue to the toe. The stitches are picked up along the contrast yarn and a heel is knit like the toe. This looks nice and easy, but I find that I spend about as much time removing the string as I do knitting the heel, so I'm gonna do a different one for a while.
What will be next, the April socks
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Hejsa!! Ja, jeg skriver altså på dansk til dig - det ER mit foretrukne sprog. :o)
Hælen hedder en "afterthought heel" eller en "bondehæl" på dansk, fordi den er så nem at udskifte, hvis der bliver slidt hul på hælen; bønderne i gamle dage sparede, hvor de kunne og genbrugte, hvad de kunne...de stoppede sokker, men IKKE i skraldespanden, som vi gør i vore dage. :o) Jeg synes heller ikke, den er så god, jeg bryder mig ikke rigtigt om designet, men nu har jeg også fundet "min" helt rigtige timeglashæl, så nu vil jeg veksle mellem den og en båndhæl, der for mig at se nu engang sidder bedst (men er meget langsommere og knap så pæn i autostribende garn, i mine øjne).
/Bettina
Posted by: Bettina Løhmann Lundgaard | 02/04/2005
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