Socks for Mom (母の靴下) (aka Tabi Monogatari v48)

The (original) pair of socks I made for my mom fit! 🥰🎉🧶 And now she wanted a "few more".

So, armed with a template of my mom's feet and using my 4" & 3" Chiaogoo Interchangeable US 0 needles & all of my pink and purple sock stash, here's how her sock stories went: 

1. Cast on a Provisional cast on with a total of 44 sts.
2. K 1 straight row on each side, then join in the round.
3. K 15 rows in the round as part of the foot portion.
4. Then I started the toes: with 22 sts on each side, splitting it up for 11 sts for a swirl toe (16 rows, ending with 4 sts).
5. Then I went back to the bottom of the provisional cast on and picked up the stitches to start the foot.
6. Row 17: pick up a st from the “front” side and put it on the “back” side; pick up a st from the “back” side, bringing it behind the st picked up from the “front” and put it on the “front” side. K these 2 sts together. Then k in the round. There should be 22 sts on each side.
7. Row 19: Pick up 1 st from below on the 1st and 2nd to the last st on each side to add 2 sts for a total of 24 sts on each side
8. Row 20-23 (4 rows): k, maintaining 24 sts
9. Row 24: Pick up 1 st from below on the 2nd to the last st on each side to add 1 st for a total of 25 sts on each side
10. Row 25-28 (4 rows):  k, maintaining 25 sts
11. Row 29: Pick up 1 st from below and the 2nd to the last st on each side for a total of 27 sts (on each side)
12. Row 30-71 (41 rows): k

Including the initial 18 rows, this came out for a total of 13 cm (5 1/4").

With the foot done, I started on the heel portion using the Fish Lips Kiss Heel method.  Since the method is copyrighted, here's the changes I did to make it work for me:

   13. Row 72-103 (22 rows):  Follow the Fish Lips Kiss Heel method until you have 9 twin stitch (ts) knits & purls sts on each side and 9 regular sts
   This came out to 3.5 cm (1 3/8”). 

This came out perfect! 🙂  *yay* 🙂Turning the heel is always magical and never gets old.

 

With the heel done, I finished off the a very short leg and cuff:
   14. Row 104-118 (15 rows): k in the round for a total of 27 sts for each side.
   15. Row 118-142 (25 rows): complete cuff using 1x1 ribbing, for a total of 27 sts             for each side.
   16. Bound off using a variation of the Estonian bind off, in which I picked up a                 stitch from the row below then used the Estonian bind off technique. 🙂

The total length of the leg and cuff was 9 cm (3 1/2").

Look at all these finished pairs! 🎉 *Yay*! 🙂🙌 Now, she hasfive (5) pairs! 🎉

 

Her first pair came out longer because I couldn't count.  I made 45 rows when it should've been 41 rows.  Obviously, I didn't use my foot template to double check! 😳🙄🤦‍♀️ So, I did the most reasonable thing:  I ripped it back to the foot and used my template so that it would be the right length and redid the sock.  Here it is in all of its redone glory:

And here's her Irlanda socks, using the corrected instructions and the template! 😉🙂

For my Watermelon Head socks, I only did 31 rows for the foot since my gauge seemed so much greater than normal before turning the heel.  Then I only did 10 rows for the leg and 19 rows for the cuff before binding off:

For her Grandma's Flower Garden socks, I did 22 rows for the foot before turning the heel; then 10 rows for the leg and 25 rows for the cuff before binding off:

For her Pink Granite socks, I did it exactly like her Grandma's Flower Garden sock since it was the same yarn brand:

Now, my mom should have about a week's worth of socks.  I hope she enjoys them all!🥳🤞🙂🥰