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atherleisure) wrote2019-07-01 10:56 am
atherleisure) wrote2019-07-01 10:56 am
Too Many Stockings
I've gotten a bit bored with knitting stockings. They go on and on and on, and I have two pair in progress right now. So what do I do but knit two more.
These only took about an hour apiece. It was a nice break from hundreds of rows.
Since I haven't mentioned them in awhile, here's the current status of the other stockings projects:
18th century wool stockings - I'm ~40 rows into the foot of the first stocking. That makes me about 80% finished with the first stocking.
Late 19th century cotton openwork stockings - I did not account sufficiently for the lack of stretch in an openwork pattern. I was 20 rows short of splitting for the heel when I decided to try it on and found that it wouldn't stretch over my heel. I had to rip back 55 rows to get it on. Over the weekend I redid all of that and now am only half a dozen rows short of splitting for the heel. That was depressing, but I'm glad it's over now. (That was the real driver for making the little ones.)
And now back to more stocking knitting and cross-stitching.
These only took about an hour apiece. It was a nice break from hundreds of rows.
Since I haven't mentioned them in awhile, here's the current status of the other stockings projects:
18th century wool stockings - I'm ~40 rows into the foot of the first stocking. That makes me about 80% finished with the first stocking.
Late 19th century cotton openwork stockings - I did not account sufficiently for the lack of stretch in an openwork pattern. I was 20 rows short of splitting for the heel when I decided to try it on and found that it wouldn't stretch over my heel. I had to rip back 55 rows to get it on. Over the weekend I redid all of that and now am only half a dozen rows short of splitting for the heel. That was depressing, but I'm glad it's over now. (That was the real driver for making the little ones.)
And now back to more stocking knitting and cross-stitching.