TERRIBLE POOLING also they’re so tall that they don’t really fit my calves properly. I may have to frog back and make them shorter.

I’m going to reclaim this yarn for another pair of socks, but I will try this pattern again with another, less likely to pool, wool. And also knit a shorter foot and less wide heel.

I wore these around for a couple of hours, and I’ve decided that I absolutely hate the heel situation. The heel flap is too loose, but would be fine worked in heel stitch. Also, it’s just too tall. Perhaps also remedied with heel stitch? The amount of stretch in the flap is simply too much for me and I will never wear these socks as is. It’s been so long since I worked on them that I have to review the pattern before frogging back to shorten the flap. GAAAAH!

Geez! I had 4 rows and BO in one sock and these sat for nearly a month unfinished! I just forgot about them~
Sock weights: 35.9 & 36.0 grams with 32.6 grams left over.

3/17 Update: frogged back to the 8th repeat of foot chart and started gusset there (4 1/2 inches long). Re-knit the foot and went up to 4 repeats on leg before starting sock 2 so I can knit the legs TAAT in the car.

I find this pattern is very confusing. My first time through was a disaster at the resumption of the cable. I read through the Chimera sock pattern before I started reknitting the gusset and it became clear. The gusset decrease instructions in Paper Moon are backwards. I had to swap the SSK, P2tog for the decreases to maintain P1,K2 in the flap side.

p1, k2, gusset rev st, k2,p1,heel flap,p1,k2,gusset,k2,p1
I placed the p1, k2 on the outer edges onto the other needle when I started my decreases. Each decrease is worked with I gusset stitch and 1 knit stitch from the k2,p1 adjacent to the flap. The decrease should produce a knit stitch on the right side of the sock. Therefore, a p2tog is done on the WS and SSK on the RS…which is opposite of the pattern.

There is a ‘gusset gap’ when working the first ITR row, so I picked up a stitch there as usual and decreased it on the next row, the cable crossing row, so it doesn’t show if the decrease is done in the back (3 stitches to CN, k2, k1 k2tog from the CN).

yarn usage notes toe uses ~ 3 grams
22 grams used when I finished the gusset decreases
30 grams used after 12 repeats on the leg

3/16 A days knitting wasted!

Why don’t I go with my first instinct? I would have more finished projects. Dammit! The gusset is too big, giving me a heel flap that’s over 3 inches long and a sock that’s at least 1/2 inch too long. I stopped knitting at the 24th gusset row and contemplated moving on to the heel at that point. However, I decided that I just wasn’t smart enough to do all the figuring blah blah and spent all evening working the short rows(I HATE WRAP AND TURN) and the flap and the decreases. Poopola.

The sock fits great and feels great up until the last 2 inches of my foot, so I will set aside and contemplate a complete or partial frog since it can’t continue as is. Also, the leg is just too big at 60 stitches with all the garter stitch. The cables don’t pull in enough to make up for the garter, which means it gapes around my leg. I wonder if I can ‘fix’ that by knitting a taller leg and relying on my calf and the ribbing to keep it up? I’ll experiment. I am the Frog Queen, after all!