I kind of thought tearing out the heel last night would save this sock. But it doesn’t look anymore hopeful to me today. I’m most likely going to frog it and start over.

I was trying a bunch of different stuff here:

1. First time using Two Circs. That went pretty good, although I’m not sure it’s any faster than my DPNs. It does have the advantage of being able to do 2 socks at once. That’s the reason I’ll try it again.

2. Toe up. I’ve done one toe up sock before and like it. I like not having to worry about if I’ll have enuf yarn for the length of leg I want. Just knit til I’m almost out of yarn. I used the Turned Toe from Socks Soar on Two Circs by Cat Bordhi. I really liked this toe. It was a bit of work, but it turned out very nicely.

3. Gaugeless, percentage based sock pattern. I like this idea very much. I’m tired of wanting to knit with a great yarn from my stash, finding a cool pattern only to have it call for a different guage. On this sock for instance, I really like the fabric I get from using size 2’s. I ended up with 8 stitches per inch after I settled into the foot, but it was nice not worrying about it when I started. I want to use the is idea again.

4. Adapted a stitch pattern from somewhere else into all of this. I like this too. I think my mistake was using a stitch pattern that starts with a purl and that caused ladders. I tryed moving a knit stitch over to start with and that made the sock look twisted, didn’t fix the ladder much and just generally wonked it out. It’s likely that all would have been fixed in the blocking, but it was just too much to take after the heel disaster.

5. Short row Garter Stitch Heel. I like the concept but it’s just do damn much fiddling and worry about those gaps. I like the look of turned heels and I enjoy doing them, so why bother with this?

Well, back to the drawing board I guess. *sighs*