Back to colorwork at the GPY sock club. Rather than using a mix of leftovers, I’m going with 2 leftovers and newly purchased coordinating yarn. I am going to use these three colors to create a planned layout.

Summary

• The staccato is a bit thinner than the tosh sock. It seems to be working ok, but probably not the best match for stranded colorwork when using tosh.

• Use of color: all of my horizontals, cuff, leaf band background are cousteau. Stripes are in fig and grant park. The leaves in the leaf band are grant park.

• My leaf bands alternate direction in each sock. The leaf bands run in opposite directions on the left and right socks

• Needles:
  

  • Cast on: US 1.0 (2.25mm)
  • Cuff: US 1.0 (2.25mm)
  • Leg: US 1.5 (2.50mm)
  • Leg, final striped section: US 1.0 (2.25mm)
  • Gusset, US 1.0
  • Heel turn, US 1.0
  • foot & toe, US 1.0

• The heel starts at the leg start of round -- the start of leg round becomes the center back of the heel. To make this easier, I shifted the stitches around so that I have the 32 instep stitches on one needle and all other stitches on the other needle. I have marked the start of round and the center of the instep (these are the the original needle positions).

• While I would have liked to end the foot with a stripe section (before a solid cousteau toe), the sock would have been way too long. So I ended the foot with a leaf band (before a striped toe).

• After ending with a leaf band, knit to end of sole stitches and reset start of round. Cousteau toe: D K D K D K D K D K D K D K (22 stitches each side); D D D D D D D D (6 stitches each side). NOTE: I ripped this toe out. There is a picture of the results.

• How I’m knitting a striped toe: KKD KKD KD KD KD KD KD (22 each side) DDDD (14 stitches each side) cut green and in brown one more D (12 stitches each side). Kitchener closed. Note: This is my final toe.

• I seemed to have used a great deal more yarn in this sock than normal. Its possible that my calculations are off, so I wouldn’t rely on these numbers for yardage used.

• Even though I eliminated one leg repeat, the legs are still pretty tall for me.

Journal

2016-04-10: Cast on with GTCO on US 1.0 (2.25 mm) needles. Complete cuffs 1 & 2. Switch to US 1.5 . Complete striped section on sock 1.

2016-04-11: Complete first leaf band on sock 1. Continue working on sock 2. After completing the stripes i discovered that I had cast on 4 stitches too few. I played with increases in the start of the leaf band, but didn’t like the results, so, I completely ripped out the second sock and I’ll start again.
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Cast on and knit second cuff again. Change needles to US 1.5 (2.5 mm) needles and begin striped section.
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Complete striped section and first leaf band on second sock. I’m using the direction opposite of the first sock. The leaf bands will be reflections between the socks.

2016-04-13: Complete striped section, leaf band; sock 1. Switch to US 1.0 (2.25mm) needles and complete the final leg striped section.

2016-04-15: Complete first leg. Start gusset. Complete first leaf band with increases; 16 stitches increased.

2016-04-16: Complete gusset increases, first leg. Complete heel decreases, first leg. Complete next round with remaining 2 decreases. Move back to second sock.

2016-04-17: Complete first increase leaf band, second sock; 88 stitches.

2016-04-18: Complete second increase leaf band, second sock; 104 stitches

2016-04-21: Complete heel turn, second sock.

2016-04-25: Complete foot, both socks.

2016-04-26: Complete toe in cousteau. I’m not fond of the results. Complete second toe in stripes. I like this one better, so I ripped out the cousteau toe. Complete second sock toe. Kitchener toes and weave in ends.

2016-04-27: Socks blocked, waiting for photos.