Twisted Loops

I think this project may contain my slowest knitting ever.  As it stands today, I am thirteen rows into the gusset on sock one.  I think I’m beginning to understand why Eunny only ever posted one sock on her blog.  Perhaps it’s that she never could bring herself up to the challenge of knitting a second sock.  Overall, I’m thrilled with the way the twisted stitches look.  I find the patterning very beautiful.

This sock, however, eats up the yarn at a fairly alarming rate.  Since I worried about this from the beginning, I only did half the number of suggested rounds of ribbing (7 instead of 14).  I also opted only to do three repeats of chart D on the leg.  At that point, the yarn in the sock weighed slightly less than half of the total.  In past sock knitting, I ususally try to keep the yarn used in the leg to around a third of the overall total yarn weight.  I’m hoping that since the foot is plain stockinette that I’ll make it to the end of the sock.

As I got to the heel flap, I had mixed feelings about it.  While it was nice to have a small break from the patterning of the leg, the heel flap just seems so plain.  While the stitches flow nicely from the patterning into the slipped stitches of the heel, I’m still underwhelmed by the whole thing.  My goal is to try and finish the gusset today.  We’ll see how it goes.