I started this sock back in February of 2021 - February 15, 2021 - according to the project page. The pattern has only one size, and I had not gotten very far on the cuff before I realized that the size was simply too small for me. I could barely fit the cuff around my ankle. I put the project in time out while I worked on and finished some other things (36 other things, to be exact) and pondered how I wanted to approach this problem. I considered changing the pattern to work toe up instead of cuff down, as then I would be able to adjust the pattern on the fly, but I really just did not feel like making that big of a modification. Finally, this past Monday I was looking around for something to knit and I thought I would pull this one back out of the WIP pile. I decided to take some measurements of my ankle and calf and just cast on more stitches at the start.
I quickly determined that I needed a 10” circumference at the top of the sock and an 8.5” circumference at my ankle. I also decided that the length of the cuff for that stretch of my leg needed to be 4 repeats of the pattern, plus the 12 rows of the ribbing. But now I had to decide what to do about the patterning. Did I expand the patterning to fill up those extra 16 stitches? Create some cable pattern that would transform into the original cable? Expand the panel of star stitches? In the end I decided on simple. Both the cable and the star stitch are a bit of a pain to work in this sock yarn, and I decided I just didn’t want the extra hassle, so I just filled in those stitches with extra stockinette. I did chart the pattern with the decreases, just to make it easier for me to work. After I finished the decreases I worked an additional repeat before I started the heel flap.
My modifications resulted in 34 stitches per needle when I reached the cuff, as opposed to 32, but the modifications to the heel and gusset were straight forward. I did work 34 rows for the heel flap, instead of 32, and decreased back down to 34 stitches when working the gusset. I stopped the toe decreases when I had 12 stitches on each of my needles and Kitchener stitched them closed.
I am pretty well pleased with the fit. Looking back in my projects on Ravelry, the last time I knit socks was back in 2017, but I wore a pair of my hand knit socks two weeks ago when we were going out to dinner with friends and family and remembered just how nice they are to wear.
Pattern: Celestial Socks by Melanie Gibbons
Yarn: 1 Akasha Zeropoint Colorworks SW, N Quasi-Solido Sock
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