Sock #1 finished!

I just finished this morning my first Firestarter. The pattern was fun and was easy once I understood what I was doing. It was really cool to learn a new type of toe-up heel as I always do short-row heels nowadays.

I was concerned that the sock was going to be too long as my feet are 21cm and not 24cm but due to my different row gauge it worked out perfectly and the sock fits perfectly well.

I'm A Total W&T RETREAD!!!

Okay, I had to express my frustration with the whole wrap and turn thing. It's driving me crazy. I'm okay with wrap and turn as a concept, but recognizing a wrap and turn on the purl side with a multicolor yarn is making me batty. Plus, my purling the stitch with its wrap looks awful. Eeeek. I've ripped my first sock back twice now and I'm putting it down so that I can up my worsted EZ EPS raglan. Ahhhhh. Stockinette. I'm going to try again but I think I'm going to try a solid yarn. Any other sufferers out there? Am I the only short bus student?

Just Finished.....

I enjoyed working this pattern and will do it again, But I am not pleased with the yarn. I'll go for reds next time!

Yarn: Lorna's Laces Sock, Safari - Can you believe I still have 50g of this yucky yarn left over????

Needle: 1 40" circular in 2.5mm (and the 3mm)

Here We Go!

Well, I have finished the toe (using Lorna's Laces Hawaii)! Now for the hard part- following that chart! I have gone through the first 9 rows and one side looks right but the other doesn't. Maybe I can get some better pictures and someone can spot what I am doing wrong. I know how to work the traveling stitches, but I just don't really understand when I am supposed to do them- when the arrow is coming out of a stitch or when the arrow is pointing to a stitch?? Does that make any sense?

Everyone's work is looking beautiful! What an awesome pattern!

Progress - no pics though

I have done four pattern repeats and am measuring my foot and calculating to determine when to start. I think I can do a fifth repeat and then start increasing for the gusset. I know I will likely not need all the extra gusset rows. My foot measures 20 cm and the pattern is 24 cm. I am just under 10 now.
I discovered on the start of my 3rd pattern repeat, that I forgot a row. Either row 2 or 8, but I skipped it. Happily, due to my smallish foot, this will work out as otherwise I would have to have started the gusset now. It looks okay and I think I will just call it a design adjustment (planned it doncha' know!!!)
Love working with the Yarntini and the pattern makes cabling lickety split fast (except when the stitches pull out and...)
This is a fabulous knit!!!

Progress

Hi all just wanted to stop by and show some progress. I am just about to start the increase of the leg. It's slow going now because I have so many other projects on the needles. My own fault, I can't help casting on another project when I get lovely yarn in the mail. Anyone else like that? I love this pattern though and can't wait to knit myself a pair! Hope that you are all having a lovely weekend. Happy Knitting!

Frog It!

I am posting a picture just so you know that I really am working on this. Yea, I figured out the toe and then what a downer...Look at that toe. I am shoe size 10 extra wide. Those sizzling 60's that had us alternating between 3 inch spike heels and Birkenstocks gave many of us of the "Boomer Generation" such "great understanding". There is no way this is going to fit my foot. This would fit my skinny teenage granddaughter who wears size 8 1/2 or my four year old granddaughter who also has a wide foot but I am sure I would have strangulation of the large toe. I used the larger needles and by no stretch of the imagination could you say that I am a tight knitter. The next step is to pull it out again and work with a pattern that tells how to enlarge to fit a BIG foot. Once I get that figured out I can return and hopefully figure out how to apply this pattern.