I'm sorry this picture is as blurry-eyed as I am this morning, but as you can, I hope, see, no holes, no weirdness, just nice smooth sock! It was my intention to knit a few more rows, then turn a heel, but two rows of juggling all the stitch holders and small DPNs in order to knit in the round on a pair of SPs was enough. I'm sure I know what I'm doing now, and see no point in repeating it.
So what was the magic solution? Very simple - instead of worrying about that last wrapped and slipped stitch at the other end of the WS row, go ahead and pick up the stitches for the top of the sock from the provisional cast-on, knit across them, and work that last stitch on the WS row as a knit stitch now, then continue on knitting across the stitches for the sole of the sock. Simple, obvious, once it's pointed out - and a lesson in not overly complicating things!
So instead of juggling stitch holders, I started swatching for the first "real" sock! Memo to self - do *not* fall asleep whilst knitting on DPNs: the face making contact with the sharp pointy ends of all those things is not a pleasant way to reawaken! I'm swatching again, even though this sock is knit in the same yarn as the Baby Sockie, just a different color (Grape heather), because my tension has, I think, changed considerably. As the Great and Powerful etc. pointed out to me earlier, I was knitting very tightly, and I didn't realize *how* tightly until I did the ribbing on the Baby Sockie. I loosened it up considerably, so need to re-swatch.
I will be posting progress reports on the sock, but not in nearly the detail as this angst over the short-row technique. I'm going to try to establish some sort of schedule, so knitting posts will be one day, embellished crazy quilting another, cross-stitch a third, and so forth. (Is that laughter I hear from up there in the peanut gallery?)
Be of good heart - it's Tuesday, and you survived yesterday!
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Hee hee... oh, sorry, was the peanut gallery supposed to keep its giggles to itself?
Nice-looking toe, anyway. NB there is some potential confusion in the use of nomenclature - when you say "work that last stitch on the WS row as a knit stitch now" it might appear that you mean the WS should be facing, which of course at this stage it is not because you're back to working in the round. It's a piddly little (k)nit to pick, but of such is precision made: I'd suggest "what used to be the last stitch of the WS row" - or something more graceful but just as unequivocal....
Anyway, you done it, and you done it good!
Ooo, exciting! I have never learned to knit, although i had often wanted to learn it, for the purpose of sweaters.
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