I finished up the first sock last night, but it was not without some challenges. There is a chart for the toe, and you have to pick the right spot to start it. I had seen comments on project pages about the fit of the toe so I was a bit concerned about starting that last chart in the “right” spot. My first attempt started the chart too early, and I ended up with too much toe left at the end of the chart. No problem, I thought, I can just work a few more rows and decreases and it will be fine. Well, it wasn’t fine, for a couple of reasons.
Yeah, no toe should look like that. And it doesn’t work any better on a foot.
At this point it was time to exercise, so I put it back in the project bag and went downstairs for my daily workout. While exercising I pondered my next move and decided to just rip back and try again, which I did, at which point I noticed another mistake that I had made way back when I started working the gusset.
See that column of purl 1, knit 2, purl 1 near the bottom of the foot? Yeah, it shouldn’t be there. That should just be knit. Don’t ask, I don’t understand how I messed it up, but I did. So, I dropped down those columns of purl stitches (they are on both sides of the foot) and picked them back up as knit stitches. Pretty easy, really. And then I got back to that toe. I worked a few more rounds before starting the final chart and everything was going great until I decided to check my stitch counts and discovered that I had one less stitch on the top of the foot than I was supposed to have. I checked my knitting and discovered that I had done an extra decrease way earlier in the chart. I thought about it for a few minutes and decided I was not going to go back and fix that one as I had already ripped back once. I just did an extra decrease on the same side on the bottom of the foot and called it good. I’ll repeat the mistake on the other sock, but do it on other side so that whichever way I put them on both mistakes will either be on the inside or the outside of my foot. Now I will go cast on sock two.
Pattern: Moderne by Janel Laidman
Yarn: Expression Fiber Arts Resilient Sock
Needle: US 1.5 (2.5 mm)
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