One of the Sam socks is down, now to hurry and get the other finished. I have a class on Friday with Cat Bordhi, so I want to whip out one more of her socks from the New Pathways books. To be honest, I might only get it started at best. I have a large to-do list this week so I'm not sure how much knitting will get squeezed in. That tends to make me a little grumpy, so I'm sure I'll find some time each day or ignore my to-do list so that I'm kind to my family.
Quick Question: any tips on making the last two stitches on your kitchenered toes of your socks not look strange? (i.e. loose, baggy, not lying flat, just plain annoying.) The tension is perfect on the rest of the kitchenered stitches. I'm sure there is some handy dandy technique out there for making these stitches behave. I know I can always get rid of it when weaving in my ends, but just wondering.
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3 days ago
6 comments:
One possibility is the you can knit those last 2 stitches together, bury the yarn tail on the inside of the sock, turn sock inside out then weave the yarn tail in.
I asked Meg about this at camp a few years back. She suggested, before kitchenering, to pass the edge sts over their adjacent sts. Then kitchener as normal. It helps a lot. There is also Lucy Neatby's Toe Chimney technique which I think she covers in Cool Socks, Warm Feet.
Here's Lucy's technique. http://www.lucyneatby.com/tbsoctoe.html
I always slip my sts over like Jessica suggested. It makes each end of the toe a little smoother, I think.
Cat's workshop sounds very cool - can't wait to hear all about it.
Never thought about the kitchnered to "lumpies" - I finish and then poke my needle through the to to the inside, pull the yarn tight and weave in. Never had a problem. One knows, but me anyway.
Ditto Jessica's technique mentioned above; I think I even learned that from one of Lucy Neatby's classes. Someone calls them dog ears (the end bits that stick out). Or was it Charlene Schurch? Whoever it was, the technique works.
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