Because you’ll get to the toe, and you’ll be merrily kitchenering along, doing a fabulous job keeping tension even and the like, and you’ll get to the end and discover you have quite a few more stitches on one side than on the other.
It turns out that what I thought was an allergy attack on Saturday was a full-blown cold. I feel like crap; yesterday I stayed home from work and today I thought I’d go in in the afternoon, but since I get out of breath walking to the bathroom, it’s not looking good.
When last I wrote I was trying to figure out how to make a single leaf. Part of the complication was that I didn’t want the background of the work to be reverse stockinette, and I wanted the appearance of shaping on the leaf on both sides of the leaf. Late on Sunday, I finally made it work.
Perhaps it’s a side effect of the allergy medication I took this afternoon, after hanging out at a cat house last night sent me into a sinus frenzy all day. I slept for 4 hours this afternoon! So tonight I was trying to catch up on my planning for this next pair of socks.
Here’s the deal: I want to make a leaf. Just a single leaf, on an angle. This delightfully soft sock yarn, from Hill Country Yarns, is called “Indian Summer” but has me thinking of leaf-peeping and falling leaves. I’ve been in the mood for pumpkin pie for days now. I decided the “easiest” way to figure out how to make one nice leaf would be to find a pattern and steal a single leaf from it. But of course, I needed to chart the whole pattern in order to pick out the single leaf and still keep all the decreases and yos even. So I did that. For a few different leaf patterns. Then I decided I needed a straightforward swatch before I tried experimenting with leaves.
Many thanks to Jeanie for pointing out an omission from the Anastasia Socks pattern.
When working the pattern from the chart, odd-numbered rows are knit.
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