Monday, July 28, 2008

Trying to learn short-row heels

I finished the Vandyke lace panel socks this weekend so in preparation for Ravelympics 2008, I decided to learn to do short-row heels. I've tried several times in the past, without success, but I found this video tutorial showing Priscilla Wild's no-wrap, no-yarnover technique. It looked easy! It seemed easy while I was doing it! But somehow I ended up with more stitches than I start with. That shouldn't even be possible, because you only ever make a new stitch after knitting two other stitches together. You create one stitch for every one you reduce away--no more, no less. It's like you have a basket of 30 apples. Every time you take one apple out, you put another apple in. No matter how many times you do this, you should theoretically still have thirty apples. Not thirty-two, as I did.

I ripped the whole thing out and will try again tomorrow. Or maybe the next day, because tomorrow I have to concentrate for work a little.

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I think I know what you did. When you were going to purl 2 tog.you had your yarn in front and made like a yarn over. Ask me how I know. I've now done 3 socks using this method and I love it.

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