Re: Idle sock question

[spampot]

WOW. That sounds way cool, but I think I'll experiment w/toes for a
while first (am knitting DH a pair of wool-hemp mixture socks). I got
several EZ books for my bday, will look up socks when I have a minute.

SlinkyToy wrote:
> You can do better than simple right- and left-toe construction - you can
> make -footed socks! Elizabeth Zimmerman discusses the method in one of her
> books (don't ask me which, I don't recall offhand), and it is also in Meg
> Swansen's Knitting, and MAY be in Vogue Knitting American Classics as well.
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> What makes them -footed? Instep shaping, of course :)
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> "spampot" > wrote in message
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>>...or rather, idle question about socks. Has anyone here ever made
>>right-footed and left-footed socks? You know how most sock toe ends
>>resemble a cone or a snipped-off triangle (or a trapezoid; does a
>>trapezoid have to have a right angle, or is it enough that it has two
>>parallel sides?)? Well, most people's toes (not mine, but that's
>>another story) are closer to a right triangle with the hypotenuse
>>forming the outline of the toes -- the big toe being the shorter leg of
>>the right angle -- aren't they? So, has anyone tried doing the toe
>>decreases only along the little-toe edge, and thus coming to the
>>"snipped-off triangle" at the top of the big toe? It seems logical to
>>me that the socks would fit better.
>>
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[spampot]

Aha! Maybe I'll try that for the second sock for DH. My toes are an
odd shape, they're perfectly straight, more like fingers than toes, so I
should really hardly decrease at all for my own socks -- certainly on
the big-toe side. Thanks for the advice, Sue.

Sue wrote:
> Hi,
> I just had to jump out of lurkdom on this one. I've only knitted one pair of
> socks ever - bedsocks in aran weight yarn. I knitted the first one with the
> standard symmetrical shape toe, and found that it pressed my big toe
> sideways. Not comfortable. I made the second one the exact shape of my foot
> by drawing round my foot on to graph paper and doing the calculations
> needed. I ended up with only 3 rounds of decreases on the big toe side (the
> last 3 rounds) but started the decreases on the little toe side earlier
> than for a standard sock, and these decreases were of the K3 tog variety.
> The result was a sock that fitted the shape of my foot just right, so I
> tinked the toe of the first one and did a mirror image to match. The great
> thing is that the grafting at the toe was over only 6sts.
>
> Sue in the East of England, UK
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> "spampot" > wrote in message
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>>...or rather, idle question about socks. Has anyone here ever made
>>right-footed and left-footed socks? You know how most sock toe ends
>>resemble a cone or a snipped-off triangle (or a trapezoid; does a
>>trapezoid have to have a right angle, or is it enough that it has two
>>parallel sides?)? Well, most people's toes (not mine, but that's
>>another story) are closer to a right triangle with the hypotenuse
>>forming the outline of the toes -- the big toe being the shorter leg of
>>the right angle -- aren't they? So, has anyone tried doing the toe
>>decreases only along the little-toe edge, and thus coming to the
>>"snipped-off triangle" at the top of the big toe? It seems logical to
>>me that the socks would fit better.
>>
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