Comments on: Oh lord. http://kayray.org/2007/01/23/oh-lord/ Wed, 31 Jan 2007 15:48:02 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.9.11 By: Kristin http://kayray.org/2007/01/23/oh-lord/#comment-3338 Wed, 31 Jan 2007 15:48:02 +0000 http://kayray.org/2007/01/23/oh-lord/#comment-3338 Yeah, I read through the instructions and realized they weren’t what the link pointing me to them said they were.

]]> By: kara http://kayray.org/2007/01/23/oh-lord/#comment-3324 Wed, 31 Jan 2007 03:54:06 +0000 http://kayray.org/2007/01/23/oh-lord/#comment-3324 Hmm. The first pattern is an ordinary short-row heel. And the second has the gusset in the normal place (foot rather than ankle) as well. I don’t see that pretty triangular ankle gusset in any of those patterns. It’s like a mitten-thumb gusset… Maybe Annie will be able to fill us in on the general method of construction pretty soon :)

I made a mock-up and got *something* like this heel, but I think I need to space the inc. rounds further apart. But it was close! I’ll try again.

]]> By: Kristin http://kayray.org/2007/01/23/oh-lord/#comment-3322 Wed, 31 Jan 2007 03:28:33 +0000 http://kayray.org/2007/01/23/oh-lord/#comment-3322 I just happened to be looking up toe-up sock heel patterns, and I found a couple patterns that reminded me of these socks. I wonder if it’s a toe-up heel done like the pages linked below explain…

http://web.archive.org/web/20040413083713/http://flor.trix.net/eclectic.htm

http://mysite.verizon.net/vze8mnnp/lollipopsocks.html

]]> By: kara http://kayray.org/2007/01/23/oh-lord/#comment-3144 Fri, 26 Jan 2007 22:07:43 +0000 http://kayray.org/2007/01/23/oh-lord/#comment-3144 Ooooooo yes keep us posted!

]]> By: Annie http://kayray.org/2007/01/23/oh-lord/#comment-3134 Fri, 26 Jan 2007 14:01:50 +0000 http://kayray.org/2007/01/23/oh-lord/#comment-3134 I just realized that the farm that raises these sheep and sells the kit is in Missouri and then I saw your encouraging posts so I figured that was enough for me! They don’t accept credit cards so I emailed them for details on payment. I’ll keep you all updated.

]]> By: kara http://kayray.org/2007/01/23/oh-lord/#comment-3120 Fri, 26 Jan 2007 06:46:46 +0000 http://kayray.org/2007/01/23/oh-lord/#comment-3120 Go for it, Annie!
Haven’t had energy enough to fiddle with the heel mock-up…

]]> By: Kristin http://kayray.org/2007/01/23/oh-lord/#comment-3117 Fri, 26 Jan 2007 04:48:08 +0000 http://kayray.org/2007/01/23/oh-lord/#comment-3117 I say go for it Annie. I mean, that’s how you get better at things, by doing them! Why not get the pattern to try it, or perhaps at least to read over to get an idea of the skills you want to master first.

]]> By: Annie http://kayray.org/2007/01/23/oh-lord/#comment-3114 Fri, 26 Jan 2007 00:34:31 +0000 http://kayray.org/2007/01/23/oh-lord/#comment-3114 How did the experimentation go last night Kara? The heels are very graceful, far less blocky looking than most hand knit sock patterns. I am going back and forth between trying to convince myself to buy this (Yarn Harlot logic, it would be unpractical to not buy it) and trying to convince myself to wait until I’m a bit better at these things. But then doesn’t the Yarn Harlot also say we should have at least one book or kit with patterns we think are too hard for us to inspire us?

]]> By: Kathy http://kayray.org/2007/01/23/oh-lord/#comment-3108 Thu, 25 Jan 2007 17:19:23 +0000 http://kayray.org/2007/01/23/oh-lord/#comment-3108 They are beautiful.

]]> By: kara http://kayray.org/2007/01/23/oh-lord/#comment-3082 Thu, 25 Jan 2007 01:00:28 +0000 http://kayray.org/2007/01/23/oh-lord/#comment-3082 Nope, it’s none of those, as near as I can tell. That ankle gusset is unique! I spent quite a long time googling for various kinds of heels and never found anything even slightly similar to these. Tonight I’ll try to work up a fake heel based on what I *think* is going on, and see what happens :)

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