Little triumphs

I'm feeling very pleased with myself. I had put Garter Waves in timeout, not sure if I should continue or frog. Instead of doing either of those things, I opted to tink back and try again. I tinked all the way to the beginning of the heel flap and instead of knitting the heel flap first , I knit three repeats of the pattern first and THEN started the heel flap.
I don't know why I just didn't do that in the first place.
Part of the problem is that I was knitting on 3 needles instead of 4, and doing an entirely different heel from the short row heel in the pattern. Originally, I did the heel flap from another pattern that also called for 60 stitches, and the heel flap was to be 27sts, which leaves 33 sts for the instep/pattern. the pattern is made up of repeats of 10sts. All fairly simple if you actually think about it-which I clearly did not.

So this time I looked through patterns until I found a sock that had a 60st cast on and used 30sts for the heel flap, because no way was I going to wing it again and  tink this bloody sock for a 3rd time.

 (I'm just going to mention again that I'm knitting this sock with Dream in Color Smooshy and it's held up really well despite my tantrummy  ripping back of quite a few inches of work. Twice. So yes, great yarn! And beautiful colour)

Okay, so pattern works, did the heel flap (a new one, but I don't know the name for it, I'll include it at the end of my post and maybe someone can let me know what it's called) picked up the stitches and now am doing the gusset decreases while keeping the instep in pattern. It's irritating to know that I wasted so much time on one sock and it's not even finished.  But it's all learning right? I won't make this mistake in any of my future socks (HAHAHAHAHA-yeh sure).





This was the only upside to B being home from school yesterday. He had a gastro and was throwing up pretty much from the time he woke up, poor kid. Around 2pm, he actually napped (that's how you know he's sick-napping) and that's when I worked out my Garter Waves issues. I also chose my next two sock projects! One is a pattern by Crystal Palace yarns called  Silky Drops socks, the other is called Birdwalk that I found on Ravelry (by Allison Gray) I also want to knit the Vanilla Latte socks at some point...I <3 socks.


Heel Flap
row 1: K3 *Sl1, K1* K3
row 2: K3 *purl* K3
row 3: K3 *K1, Sl1* K3
row 4: K3 *purl* K3