Sasha Knits!

Last week we were subjected to a bit of a nasty surprise.  We were hit by the residuals of typhoon Melor and had quite a bit of flooding in our house.  At one point, our backyard was under about six inches of water and instead of draining out into the street, it came inside through the walls.  All four bedrooms, the kitchen, and the garage quickly became soggy and then downright puddly.

We have spent the last week and a half replacing carpets, preforming mold prevention, and just generally putting things back to normal.

Amid all the recovery, I snatched a few moments here and there to work on a sock.  I used the basic gusset heel sock pattern from Wendy D. Johnson’s book, Socks From the Toe Up, as it was both small and something that I could pick up and put down quite easily.  Unfortunately I wasn’t able to get online to check for errata and got to the short rows where things went terribly wrong.  I ended up frogging the hot mess completely and started over.  By the time I got back to the gusset again, I was able to get online and see that it was a pattern error and not a knitter error.  A bit annoying, but these things happen.

The yarn is Patons Kroy Socks Stripe in Cyan Stripes.  Kroy Socks is a bit stingy with the yardage, unfortunately, but even with my 10.5″ long feet, I was able to get a decent leg length.  I cast-on using Judy’s Magic Cast-On method and cast-off with Jeny’s Surprisingly Stretchy Bind-off in conjunction with Cat Bordhi’s technique for a seamless edge.  I am such a tight knitter that the bind-off really wasn’t all that stretchy and I have a little bit of difficulty getting it over my heel.  This is entirely my own issue and not something that can be blamed on the method.

Hopefully now that we are mostly back to to normal around here, it will take me far less time to complete the second sock.