I've been eyeing out this sock pattern for ages and I finally decided to take the plunge to purchase it. And, to top it off, I decided that it would be the first pair of colourwork socks that I would make for Hubs. If there's enough yarn leftover, I also plan to make a pair for myself.😁🤞🍀 So, with my Knot House Yarns Sock in Romeo and Kim Dyes Yarn Sourdough Sock in The Heart Remains a Child and my Chiaogoo 2.0mm (US0) needles, here's how my adventure went:
7. Then I went back to the bottom of the provisional cast on and picked up the
1. I started with a Provisional cast on with a total of 36 sts. I found that my Knot House Yarn was really, really stretchy so, my "normal" cast on for his socks just wasn't working. 😳🤷♀️😱🤦♀️
2. K 1 straight row on each side, then connected in the round
3. K 7 rows in the round as part of the foot portion
4. Started the toes: with 18 sts on each side, splitting it up for 8 sts for big toe, 10
2. K 1 straight row on each side, then connected in the round
3. K 7 rows in the round as part of the foot portion
4. Started the toes: with 18 sts on each side, splitting it up for 8 sts for big toe, 10
sts for remaining toes
5. Big toe:
- Row 1:
- Front: k to the 2nd to the last st, pick up 1 st below, for a total of 9 sts
- Back: k, pick up a st below, k to the end for a total of 9 sts
- Row 2:
- Front: k, pick up a st, k to the end, for a total of 10 sts
- Back: k to the last 2 sts, pick up a st below, k for a total of 10 sts
- Row 3-10 (8 rows): k
- Row 11:
- Front: k to last 2 sts, k2tog for a total of 9 sts
- Back: SSK, k to the end for a total of 9 sts
- Row 12:
- Front: SSK, k to the end for a total of 8 sts
- Back: k to the last 2 sts, k2tog for a total of 8 sts
- Row 13:
- Front: k to last 2 sts, k2tog for a total of 7 sts
- Back: SSK, k to the end for a total of 7 sts
- Row 14: k
- Row 15:
- Front: SSK, k to the end for a total of 6 sts
- Back: k to the last 2 sts, k2tog for a total of 6 sts
- Row 16: k
- Row 17:
- Front: k to last 2 sts, k2tog for a total of 5 sts
- Back: SSK, k to the end for a total of 5 sts
- Row 18:
- Front: SSK, k for a total of 4 sts
- Back: k to the last 2 sts, k2tog for a total of 4 sts
- Row 19: same as row 15 continuing to decrease 2 sts, total of 3 sts on each side
- Bound off using the Kitchener stitch
6. The rest of the toes:
- Row 1: k, picking up 4 sts on each side, for a total of 14 sts
- Row 2: k
- Row 3:
- Front: SSK, k to the end for a total of 13 sts
- Back: k to the last 2 sts, k2tog for a total of 13 sts
- Row 4: k
- Row 5:
- Front: SSK, k to the last 2 sts, k2tog for a total of 11 sts
- Back: SSK, k to the last 2 sts, k2tog for a total of 11 sts
- Row 6:
- Front: SSK, k to the end for a total of 10 sts
- Back: k to the last 2 sts, k2tog for a total of 10 sts
- Row 7:
- Front: k to the last 2 sts, k2tog for a total of 9 sts
- Back: SSK, k to the end for a total of 9 sts
- Row 8: k
- Row 9:
- Front: SSK, k to the end for a total of 8 sts
- Back: k to the last 2 sts, k2tog for a total of 8 sts
- Row 10: k
- Row 11:
- Front: SSK, k to the end, for a total of 7 sts
- Back: k to the last 2 sts, k2tog for a total of 7 sts
- Row 12: k
- Row 13:
- Front: SSK, k to the end for a total of 6 sts
- Back: k to the last 2 sts, k2tog for a total of 6 sts
- Row 14: k
- Row 15-18: same as Row 13-14 for 5 & 4 sts
- Bound off using the Kitchener stitch
stitches to start the foot with my Chiaogoo 3.25mm (US3) needles
10. With the leg done, it was time to cuff; Hubby said he wanted shorter ribbing this time (*yay* homestretch!); so with my Chiaogoo 2.00mm (US0) needles:
- Row 16: *k, M1R, k3, M1, k3, M1, k4, M1, k3, M1, k3, M1L, k* in the round (added a total of 12 sts). There should be 24 sts on each side (total 48 sts)
- Row 17-40 (24 rows): Follow the Colourwork Chart (starting with 2nd stitch), maintaining 24 sts on each side, repeating the chart for a total of two (2) times, until it's 11 cm shorter than desired length of foot
- Including the initial 7 rows, this came out for a total of 9.5 cm (3 3/4 in)
Top side
Bottom side
Note: I'm no longer using my Kim Dyes Yarn Sourdough Sock as it was just too muddy looking with the Knot House Yarns Sock. I had switched it out with my arimisu Trek in Actiniite yarn and it looks so much better.
8. With the foot done, I started on the gusset and heel portion:
- Gusset Row 41-64 (24 rows): pick up a sts below on each side of the middle strip, adding 2 sts on each side twelve (12) times for a total of 48 & 24 sts on each sid, 72 total stitches; be sure to continue maintaining the chart, repeating it twice (2) more & ending with completing the gusset to the BOR center marker
- This came out to 8 cm (3 1/8 in)
- Row 65-72 (8 rows): complete the short rows, adding another 8 sts (56 & 24 sts per side, 80 total stitches)
- K to the last st before the gusset market, twrl1, k1, turn
- P to the last st before the gusset market, twrlp1, p1, turn
- *K to four (4) st before last turn, twrl1, k1, turn
- P to four (4) st before last turn, twrlp1, p1, turn*
- Repeat * twice (2) more
- Row 73-82 (10 rows): complete the heel portion, decreasing a total of 20 sts (36 & 24 sts per side, 60 total stitches); I opted to use the Eye of Partridge pattern instead of using the pattern's heel flap
- With the gusset and heel flap, the total foot came out to 20 cm (7 7/8 in)
- This came out perfect! :) *yay* :)
9. With the heel done, I finished off the leg:
- Row 83-117 (36 rows): Following instructions for the leg, continue to follow the chart, starting with the 1st stitch on chart, ending with the 5th stitch on chart, doing the 2 MC sts, then finishing with the 8th stitch through the end of the chart, repeating chart three (3) times, maintaining a total of 60 sts
- Total length of the leg was 12 cm (4 3/4 in)
- Row 118: decrease 2 sts on each side for a total of 28 sts per side (total 58 sts) and begin a 2x2 ribbing, starting with a k , p, *k2, p2*, until the last 2 sts, p, k.
- Row 119-126 (9 rows): complete cuff using 2x2 ribbing (29 sts on each side) for a total of 2.5 cm (1 in) of ribbing
- Bound off using Jenny's Stretchy Bind Off. :)
Yay! Another finished pair! 🎉
Thoughts on this sock:
- Boy, it was a major brain buster!😳😱🤯😔🤦♀️🤷♀️🙇 Since my gauge was totally off from my "normal" sock pattern, it was even harder to make it work with the pattern. It took a few trial and errors to simply get the toe portion correct much less the foot portion!😳😱🤯😔🤦♀️ But, I must say, despite it all (and the amount of frogging I had to do & the math I had to do), it was definitely a "learning" project.
- Thankfully, when I started this sock, the maker was also having a Sockalong (which I joined). It has been super helpful and fun seeing, reading, and sharing advice on socks. It also helped me know that I was not following the chart pattern correctly so I could self-correct before getting too far ahead on my sock!😳😱😳😁👍
(following the Chart incorrectly)
(following the Chart correctly - see that there's a "line" now)
- The "other" learning item was my colourwork colours itself. After doing two (2) chart repeats, I realized that it was really hard to see the pattern and it looked "muddy". While the yarn itself looked "nice" next to each other, it definitely "melted" in with each other - it was too close in colouration.
In the end, I decided to rip it out and use another yarn: arimisu Trek in Actiniite.
- The other thing I kept having trouble with was remembering which yarn should be on "top" and which should be on the "bottom" which determines which yarn should be the background colour and which should be the actual colourwork colour. When I started my right sock with my new yarn, I got it mixed up and ended ripping back out (again) to get it "right".
Here;s the colourwork done "backwards"
Here's the colourwork done "correctly"
- Never have I ever thought I'd ever need a lifeline in a sock! 😳😱🤯😭🤦♀️ But, boy, oh boy!! did I ever need a lifeline for this sock with all the ripping back I did just for the foot portion alone!! 😳😱🤯😭🤦♀️ And after learning how much a lifeline was really such a lifeline, I also used it for the gusset and heel as that was also another trial and error portion of this sock!
- Learning how to actually do the heel flap, in and of itself!, was also quite a big learning curve for me in addition to learning how to actually do the Eye of Partridge heel flap itself!😳😱🤯🤦♀️🤷♀️ What I'm very glad about this pattern is that the heel flap incorporates the decreases as you create the "flap", very much like a regular Fleegle heel so that was nice that I didn't need to pick up stitches or had any "holes" along the heel. (for the most part).
- Overall, I liked this sock pattern. It was definitely a "learning" sock and depending how it wears, I am open to make more socks like this. 👍🙌🎉🥰
