Jofrog is Knitfrog!
June 10 2005
Under my WIPs list there is a new entry. It appeared about a week ago, and has no link to it... just the mysterious "Safari". Today is the day to fill you in. Aren't you excited? I'm obviously back into knitting socks. I really enjoy the flow. I especially enjoy the magic loop flow. I didn't expect to be a full convert, and if I were to do a pair of socks on a size needle that I had DPNs and didn't have a 29" circular needle, I wouldn't even think twice about it and I'd do it on the DPNs, but I do enjoy this magic loop! That said, Mike doesn't want me to make him any more sweaters. He's very picky, he doesn't wear sweaters often, and he doesn't want me to put too much effort into something that may not be worn. He will wear socks though, so socks I shall make him. Hey, I'm knitting socks anyways, why not be for him? The two of us took a trip to the yarn store for him to pick out his manly color and after one speckled, non-striping, non-patterning, non-interesting veto, he came up with this. Of course it's Lorna's Laces Shepard Sock. I've never had the perfect opportunity to knit with this yarn but I've always wanted to (especially in the Vera colorway... ahhh someday for me!). I had a good idea of what this yarn was going to do when I bought it and it's behaving very well. I just love knitting with it. The wound ball was a bit of a surprise and if it had come like that I never would have bought it but the skein and the sock look amazing so I'm willing to forgive the ball! Now, my question to you... If I do a normal heel flap heel I'll mess with the striping, right? I'll probably get it back after I finish my gusset decreases, and I'm okay with that, but if I do a short row heel will it all stay pretty much the same? I'm going to do the heel in the same yarn, and I'll probably run some reinforcing thread through it if I do a short row heel to get back the heel flap stability. Lorna's Laces veterans, help me out. Is it worth it, what would you do?You May Have Noticed
