Argh!

[oyceter]

Have I mentioned that I love knitting? I take it back! I hate knitting! I particularly hate my stupid toe-up Jaywalker that has 68 -- yes! 68! -- rows for the gusset increase and the heel turn. My gauge is 10 rows/inch! That is a 6.8 inch heel turn! Minus 1.5 inches if you assume that half of the heel turn will be on the leg side, but still! I would have to start increasing 5.3 inches from my heel!

I mean, my feet are big, but even so, having a heel that is actually longer than the foot of my sock seems a little weird.

Ok, I don't actually hate knitting. I sort of more hate myself for not carefully charting out all the rows required for the gusset increases beforehand while knitting two socks at a time and making pretty damned good progress, if I say so myself.

Of course, that is all moot, now that one sock has been torn back to the toe and the other lies there forlornly, waiting for me to decide if I should tear it back or not.

And because I was doing two at a time, I really do not want to wait to relax out the kinks in the yarn. So now my reknit sock is less pretty. But I am too irritated to start over for the billionth time. But I waffle because it is my beautiful Blue Moon Socks That Rock yarn. But -- billionth time!

In conclusion: #$(*&$@#)(#$!!!!!

Comments

[jinian.livejournal.com]

Woe!

That heel-turn length seems very excessive to me, but I routinely make double-decreased gussets for my narrow feet, so I don't really know what it's supposed to do. Sorry.

Socks That Rock is probably worth waiting for. Did you already know not to machine-dry the eventual resulting socks? (You may have had more sense than me.)

[oyceter]

Hrm, yeah. I think I have figured out how to adjust the length of the gusset for my feet, so I will just keep increasing until it feels comfortable and there's still room for the heel turn.

(hee! Um, I have not though as far as to drying! But I will take note)

[kintail.livejournal.com]

Huh, I am also doing a toe-up Jaywalker!

However, I think (I started it months ago and I've forgotten just how I came up with the version of the pattern I have printed; I'm on the leg of the first one now) that I recalculated and replaced the gusset part of the pattern completely because my gauge and/or foot size was considerably different from the pattern, using this (http://tiajudy.com/soxform.htm) generic form of the toe-up pattern that the toe-up Jaywalker was based on. Maybe it will help you, too?

[oyceter]

Awesome!

Of course, things are not being made easier because my gauge is larger than the pattern's, so I am compensating by knitting a smaller size than I would usually wear. I just went and recalculated the whole thing too, based on that generic pattern.

[kintail.livejournal.com]

Yeah, between using different yarn at a different gauge and my own weird foot size, I think I also changed the number of stitches (added or took out a stitch between each double-increase and double-decrease) per repeat to get it all to work properly.

I never use the exact yarn a pattern calls for, so I usually rewrite the pattern into something barely recognizable by the time I've figured out how to make it work for me.

Glad the pattern link helped, I hope they knit up better for you this time.

[oyceter]

Oh wow! I am impressed by your pattern-rewriting skills! I usually do a sloppy attempt at a swatch, figure my gauge is waaay off, try and work with a smaller size, and then completely futz stuff up.

[ginny-t.livejournal.com]

Voice of experience here … After you turn the heel, check to make sure that when you go into the leg, there's enough give for your foot. (Although I did short row heels, so that might be a difference.) I did over the knee jaywalkers for the knitting olympics (didn't make it :( ) and got a couple inches past the heel turn before I discovered that I would have to do a wicked stepsister (cut off heel) to wear 'em. *sigh* tinktinktink *grumblecry*

I do like Jaywalkers, though. ^_^

[oyceter]

Ooooo. Thank you for the tip! I will leave more room for the heel turn.

I am so tempted to switch to short row heels! Except I will persevere!

I adore the Jaywalker pattern; the increases and decreases are so lovely and well-thought-out!