Personal growth through knitting

These socks represent personal growth.  This is the third try at the short row heel.  Normally I don't forgo forward motion in my knitting for much of anything.  But as I've become a more mature knitter, I'm a little more willing to frog.  This heel I frogged twice.  I just wasn't getting the short row heel to look right.  There were holes.  I hate that.  And if I were a better blogger, I'd have thought to photograph said holes before frogging. 

Anyway, then I found this post by Misocrafty about how she picks up the wraps on her short rows.  Lo' and behold: no holes!   

And the other side:

I'm quite pleased with myself.

I finished the Norwegian hat for a friend of VK's.  I have a handy device for making lovely, uniform pompoms, but I couldn't find it.  So we have this rather pathetic pompom instead.  I have a heck of time getting pompoms to be tight against the hat.  This one wobbles around a bit, but I think it will be OK. 

 

I'm going to sign up for an online html and css class tomorrow.  As we all know, a little knowledge can be dangerous and that's exactly where I am.  I do the library's webpage on Frontpage, but I'd like to know how to do more. 

Gotta run!  Time for the traditional Sunday afternoon nap.

Comments

[Jenn]

Arrrg - comment eaten!
To sum up - good for retrying, and I have the same pompom troubles. I like the hat!

[Carol]

Love your socks and the hat! I have the same problem with pom poms! your knitting is superb!

[Brigitte]

I love your socks! Nice yarn too... Congrats on a great short heel. I just finished my first top-down sock last night - I always do toe up.

Great hat by the way - I want to make myself one next year. What yarn did you use?

[Heather]

Wow, the hat is so sharp, very striking.

I recently accepted frogging as less of a defeat and more of a part of the whole knitting deal. I will be looking at that tutorial asap, thanks!

[twig]

I can't do short row heels without holes. I will have to give that tutorial a good look.

Your fair isle stuff always looks so good.

[Zonda]

Great job on the Short Row Heel! I'm still trying to conquer it myself! The sock is looking great!

Lovely hat too!

[Lorraine]

Hey Sonya- That heel is a work of art- I've never quite gotten the hang of wraps- I'll keep trying.

[Rebekah]

Love the new blog, in fact I'm thinking about changing over to typepad myself.

And that's a great looking heel, I'd be very proud!

[Debby]

Your socks look great! As a non-sock knitter, I can really appreciate your quest to eliminate the holes. The hat looks wonderful too!

[Karen]

I've had the same problems with short-row toes myself, and that tutorial really did help. Isn't funny how as our knitting improves, we are more apt the frog. I guess when we know how good we can knit, there is no excuse for sloppy work!! Hurray for your new courses, I'm slowly working my way toward those too, but had some prerequisite courses to get out of the way first. A little knowledge can be wonderful!!

[Rachel]

Good for you for persevering with the short-row heel. I remember my own turning point with figuring out a short-row method that worked for me. (Ah, memories...) And when it works, it really looks good, doesn't it?

[Ruth]

Beautiful heel, congratulations! The hat is lovely, too.

[elizabeth]

So glad I checked your blog today! I was just upstairs working on a Socks That Rock sock(fire mountain colorway) and was fighting with trying to pick up the two wraps and knit them along with the stitch. Thanks for the advice!!

[Macoco]

Traditional Sunday afternoon nap? That is a tradition I'd like to start in my house!

Your sock looks beautiful. Great work on the short row heels!

[Carrie K]

I think I'm taking the Traditional Friday nap at my desk.

I'm a lot more willing to frog now. In fact, my mother thinks all I do is knit and frog.

The short row heels look great! I'll have to check out the tutorial.

[Pat]

Hey - I left a long comment here last week all about the Lusekofte hat being a favorite and my envy of your Happy Valley socks....where did it go?? I must have messed up ....either that or you are deleting my comments :-)

[melanie]

I do our library's website in FrontPage, too - if I didn't know a drop of html, I'd be lost - but I'd like to learn more, myself, especially since the host server won't use FP extensions!