Ok, so I took a break from the Twisted Flower to knit another sideways sock using nona's pattern.





I made a few changes to this one.

1. I knit 4 sts between the heel increases and decreases. This gave me a 6 st diagonal at the heel. I think in the future 2 sts between (for a 4 st diagonal) will be good.

2. I knit 2 sts between the toe increases and decreases giving me that 4 st diagonal.
Both of these changes look good and produce no laddering effects as with doing the decreases immediately next to each other. Additionally, the increases don't seem as tight and bunchy as when they are next to each other. The only problem is that toe diagonals are not sitting perfectly at the sides of my toes, but that's really more of an aesthetics problem.


I also eliminated 30 sts in the leg portion (and the short rows) to get an ankle length sock. I'm absolutely thrilled with the length of the sock. For some reason when I knit ankle lengths from the toe up, I never seen to get the perfect ankle length (usually because I get lazy and just cast off).


Now of course, I have yet one more lonely sock without a mate. Maybe if I'm up to it tomorrow, I'll take a picture of all of the lonely socks.