This is a terrible picture, but I’m too tired to try and take a better one. It will just have to do.
To recap, these are socks knit toe-up with one strand of Araucania Ranco Solid (green) and Koigu KPPPM (blue). I finally mastered Judy’s Magic Cast On for these, which pleases me. (Both the cast-on, and the mastering of it.)
Yesterday Orli asked about how I work the heel. I fell in love with the short row/mock heel flap found in the Baudelaire sock pattern. I just work it as it’s written, regardless of gauge.
My only modification is, after I finish turning the heel, I work 20 rounds of plain stockinette at the back of the foot. This completes the “mock heel flap” illusion. It also helps the sock stay on better, since it feels to me like if you have ribbing that far down on your heel, you walk out of your socks more easily.
Porch Cat Photo Bomb!
“Why take pictures of boring old knitting, when my dapper self is sitting right here, waiting to be adored?”
that cat defines dapper
It’s the tuxedo! Very James Bond.
He does have a point. I may have favorited him.
“Would madame perhaps like a picture of moi instead?” He looks very elegant with that white moustache!
Most dapper porch cat ever! Love the socks, too.
I’m going to have to try that baudelaire heel. (Though I think that’s exactly what I said last time you mentioned it…) (Note to self: must knit socks.)
I think that heel looks pretty similar to the Master Heels in Cat Bordhi’s New Pathways for Sock Knitters. If it is the same, you could use the charts in the book to customize the heel for any pattern.
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