The GPY sock club is back knitting a claire sock. I was hoping to have a sock where I could use this particularly intense fuschia yarn.

Journal

2016-02-01: Cast on 64 stitches - US 1.5 (2.5mm) needles, GTCO. The pattern calls for 1x1 rib. My 1x1 rib looks sloppy and normally I would use K1tbl, P1 ribbing. Looking at the pattern, I decided traditional twisted rib wouldn’t work well in this sock, so I’m doing the more fidldly K1, P1tbl so that the K1 stitch column will look clean.
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Complete first cuff (14 rounds). Start second cuff.

2015-02-15: Complete second cuff.
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Ack! I realized my second cuff was on a US 1. I’ve worked through about 12 rounds of the leg. I tried it on and it fits. So, I’m going to have to rip out the original cuff I did on a US 1.5 and reknit it on a US 1 (2.25mm).

2016-02-17: Complete second cuff, again. Move back to first sock leg.

2016-02-26: Complete first leg. after trying on the leg I decided to stop the leg with round 16 instead of with round 22. I think I can make up these rounds by extending the pattern into my toe. We’ll see.

2016-03-01: Complete Heel flap & turn, first sock.

2016-03-02: Complete sock 1 gusset.

2016-03-18: complete second sock leg.

2016-03-22: Complete second sock heel flap, turn & gusset.

2016-03-24: Complete second sock. Weave in ends and block.

Summary

• I am using US 1 needles.

• There is an error on Row 1 of the heel flap. It should read “S1, P30” because you are knitting across 31 stitches total; one stitch is not knitted - it is moved to the instep.

• Heel flap: Repeat 4 row pattern 8 times then repeat rows 1 & 2 one more time. Total 34 rows; 17 slipped stitches to pick up.

• I extended the pattern into the toe. I created a chart to follow for the area of the toe which goes beyond the pattern’s chart.

Preliminary Pattern Length Calculations

Using my basic sock recipe, I normally need the following: 11 cuff rounds, 61 leg rounds, 34 gusset rounds, 34 foot rounds and about 20 toe rounds (which I’ll ignore for now). <p>
For this sock, I have 14 cuff rounds so that means I have 58 leg rounds available for a total of 126 pattern rounds (not including any toe stitches). The pattern repeat consists of 36 rounds so I have 126 rounds / 36 rounds for a total of 3.5 repeats. Perfect! I want to end my foot on the point -- around round 15. I’m going to continue the pattern in round 16 through the toe.
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I will start the heel flap after round 22.

Next Time

• Shift the cuff over by 1 stitch. Either start with a purl or shift one stitch over. This way, the knit column in the purls will line up with a knit in the rib.

• Use vertical stranding on the knit stitch that runs up the middle of the purls