But it's a doozy of a sock.  This picture may not look like much, but trust me on this.  (Plus, there are better pictures further down.)

Continue reading "Possibly the Laziest Smartest. Short-Row Heel. Ever."

Table of contents for Sock Design 101

1. Sock Design 101: Part 1
2. Sock Design 101: Part 2
3. Sock Design 101: Part 3
4. Sock Design 101: Part 4
5. Sock Design 101: Part 5
6. Sock Design 101: Part 6

OK, I admit I got a little off track, and sort of forgot I had this sock design series going.  Apologies to both of you who have been sitting on the edge of your computer chairs, waiting breathlessly for the next post in the series.

Continue reading "Sock Design 101: Part 4"

Table of contents for UFOlympics

1. UFOlympics! the Summer Games
2. UFOlympics! the Decathlon
3. UFOlympics! the first event
4. UFOlympics! the second event
5. UFOlympics! the third event
6. UFOlympics! the fourth event
7. UFOlympics! the fifth and sixth events
8. UFOlympics! the seventh event
9. UFOlympics: the eighth and ninth events
10. UFOlympics! the tenth and eleventh events

Yes, you may well have been questioning why there is a total of 12 UFO's on my UFOlympic "decathlon" list.  (Actually, there are 13, because I had to add one UFO #0 that I forgot about when making the original list.)  But it's a good thing.

Continue reading "UFOlympics: the eighth and ninth events"

Table of contents for Short Rows & Sock Heels

1. Short Rows, Deconstructed
2. The Double-Stitch Short Row Heel – aka the “yo-yo” or “jo-jo” heel
3. Roomier Short Row Heels
4. Sasquatch Report

Hey, we’re back from our trip to Sasquatch over the Memorial Day Weekend.  And it was an interesting weekend.

(BTW, this post really does include something pretty interesting about sock heels too, although that bit’s way at the end.  Just skip down there if you must.)

Continue reading "Sasquatch Report"

Table of contents for Short Rows & Sock Heels

1. Short Rows, Deconstructed
2. The Double-Stitch Short Row Heel – aka the “yo-yo” or “jo-jo” heel
3. Roomier Short Row Heels
4. Sasquatch Report

OK, even I can admit that this short row heel obsession thing may be getting a bit out of hand.

But there’s another little gem of genius here worth sharing, in my efforts to eliminate the inelegant flap-and-gusset-style heel from the face of the earth.

Continue reading "Roomier Short Row Heels"

Table of contents for Short Rows & Sock Heels

1. Short Rows, Deconstructed
2. The Double-Stitch Short Row Heel – aka the “yo-yo” or “jo-jo” heel
3. Roomier Short Row Heels
4. Sasquatch Report

So — a few weeks ago, I wrote about sock heels.  How I don't really like flap-and-gusset style heels, and how the EZ afterthought heel usually seems too small for me, and how I'd been checking out all kinds of short row heels, in my search for the Best Short Row Heel of All Time.

Continue reading "The Double-Stitch Short Row Heel – aka the “yo-yo” or “jo-jo” heel"

Table of contents for Short Rows & Sock Heels

1. Short Rows, Deconstructed
2. The Double-Stitch Short Row Heel – aka the “yo-yo” or “jo-jo” heel
3. Roomier Short Row Heels
4. Sasquatch Report

So, while I haven't been blogging much in the past week or so, I really have been busy.

One of the things I've been working on is a sock pattern for my friend Deb, whose blog lives over at www.fearlessfibers.blogspot.com.  She dyes bee-you-tee-full yarn and sells it on Etsy – which if you haven't visited is a very fun place — her shop is at http://fearlessfibers.etsy.com.

Continue reading "Short Rows, Deconstructed"