Friday, June 22, 2012


All’s well.

You see what I mean, about the brightness of the yarn. And it's perhaps slightly too large, in the sense that’s there’s not much if any negative ease, but I’m not going to double back. The heel was perfectly straightforward, and rather interesting in that there was no short-rowing. It sort of turns itself.

Once the gusset increases are done, you take the centre 16 stitches and knit a wedge back and forth by decreasing at the beginning of every row until 4 stitches remain. That's the little yellow bit. Then, right side facing, knit across those 4 stitches, pick up 14 down the edge of the wedge, (knit across the instep stitches), pick up another 14 up the other edge. Those 32 stitches now form the heel flap, which is knit back and forth taking in one from each side on each pass until you are back down to the original number.

Those numbers are for a 64-stitch sock.

I don’t think this is one I want to add to the repertoire, but I’m glad to have done it. It looks very neat, I think – and there’s no sign of that maddening little hole in the corner between heel flap and gusset.

I thought I had nothing else to say today, but I’ve just stumbled on this in Mason-Dixon Knitting. Can it be true? I’ve spent a moment with Ravelry, and the answer seems to be, yes. Here’s the full text in all its astonishing absurdity. I’ve got the tee-shirt for a similar (but less serious) silliness some years ago – Free to Stitch, Free to Bitch. I’ll have to get this one, when it’s issued.

I thought I disliked the Olympics as profoundly as they could be disliked – London bus drivers are on strike today because they aren’t getting enough extra lolly for driving during the Games. But this adds an extra notch.

Non-knit

Was that Midsummer’s Day, yesterday? Nothing colder, wetter or darker can be imagined. I love this time of year, except for the dread it breeds of the darkness to come. This is the view from our kitchen window on Wednesday evening, just after 11 as I was finishing the washing-up.


9 comments:

  1. The yarn harlot has got a good post about the ravel-ympics drama... http://www.yarnharlot.ca/blog/archives/2012/06/21/now_that_you_ask.html

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  2. I thought you had sent all the wild, wet, windy weather our way!

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  3. In all the guff about what the O******cs represents the one thing they forgot to mention was MONEY.

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  4. The O******cs is amazingly sensitive for such a corrupt organization. I found the apology more offensive than the original letter. "We insulted you so send us some free stuff". I'm not a fan either

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  5. I don't esp. knit during the olympics, but I do wonder sometimes how much time is spent on such stuff, when there are so many more important issues! the olympics have been around for thousands of years - how to they claim the right to anything now? and what do the athletes think, do they actually care? what about all the pillows that were made to greet athletes in the uk with??? are they going to be thrown away because most of them are handknit? I'd say it's more a case of having lawyers, who need justification for their job:((

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  6. I don't esp. knit during the olympics, but I do wonder sometimes how much time is spent on such stuff, when there are so many more important issues! the olympics have been around for thousands of years - how to they claim the right to anything now? and what do the athletes think, do they actually care? what about all the pillows that were made to greet athletes in the uk with??? are they going to be thrown away because most of them are handknit? I'd say it's more a case of having lawyers, who need justification for their job:((

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  7. sorry for the double-click:(

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  8. Anonymous5:20 AM

    The modern O......s have only been around since the late nineteenth century (first games in 1896, in Athens, but some earlier gatherings and planning meetings). It's all the brainchild of Pierre de Coubertin (whose heart is buried, separate from his body, at Olympia). It is rather rich of the Committee to try to claim something that antedates them by 2,672 years (using 776 BCE as the traditional date for the first ancient games at Olympia).
    Ludicrous. It's almost enough to incite trips to London this summer for the sole purpose of protesting. Almost, but not quite.

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  9. Anonymous8:23 AM

    what a lovely view you have. It would almost make it worthwhile to do the washing up. and I'm pleased to find out that I am not the only one who leaves the dishes for later.

    Barbara M. In NH

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