12-21-2021

Swatched (in the round but without blocking) and got 9 stitches per inch on size 1 needles.

Attempted and failed at a clamshell toe. Will start with Judy’s magic cast on and Crazy Monkey’s vanilla sock pattern tomorrow.

12-22-2021

Cast on 28 total stitches using JMCO and wooden DPNs. Following the pattern of increases in the pattern from here.

Row 5 will increase to 44 total stitches.

12-23-2021

Gauge appears to be more like 9.5 stitches per inch now that I’m into the sock. I’m going to knit to 8” and then start the heel turn. Using Roxanne Richardson’s tutorial it seems like the math will work out correctly to use 50% of the stitches for the heel. We shall see.

12-24-2021

12:30 am and realizing the heel turn part of the pattern doesn’t make any sense!

Says to end on a sl1 p12 row but the purl rows are always odd numbers. So did they mean sl1 k12 or sl1 p11/13??

1:17am update: http://luna-knits.blogspot.com/2007/07/sherman-heel.html?m=1
Will use this tutorial and cross my fingers

12-29-2021

Almost done with sock 1! The heel is…not amazing but it will do. I decreased to 72 stitches for the leg and am doing k2 p1 ribbing

Sock 1 done and bound off! Interlock bind off (https://knitty.com/ISSUEss11/FEATinterlock.php)
Switched to k1 p1 rib for the last strip and I don’t love it. The bind off also flares out.

Unblocked Measurements:
Foot: 4.1-25” across
Toe-Heel: 10.2”
Heel-ribbing: 3.06”
Heel-Cuff: 10.625”
Cuff: 2.5” across

For next pair of socks I would make the foot slightly smaller and longer, and start the ribbing higher up on the ankle (like 4.75” from the heel)

12-30-2021

Cast on sock #2 and finished the toe increases.

01-01-2022

Halfway through the heel turn. I didn’t really measure the second sock…I based things off the stripes.

01-02-2022

AM: Lol why tf did I not take good notes on how I turned the heel on the first sock

PM: Actually the heels turned out neater than the first except for a hole on one side. Just one color sequence left on the second sock

01-06-2022

10:20am: Redid the cuff and bind off for the first sock with the k2p1 rib all the way to the end, and EZs sewn bind off. The bind off is less elastic but still flares. Elastic enough though.

Both socks are bound off. Weaving in the ends on the cuff is annoying!