Lombard Street - second cuff

Lombard Street - second cuff
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Another evenings knitting produced a second cuff.
There are five full repeats and the heel is started after the 5th row (of 8) so thats.... 45 rows plus 15 for the picot edge... 60 rows!
Might not be a lot to some people but to a slow-poke like me it's an enormous achievement :o)
Tonight i hope to finish the heel AND gusset decreases so i can start the feets both at once on ML tomorrow! Bloke is out so it should (theoretically) be possible and i won't get distracted by Waking the Dead either ;o)

Lombard Street - down to the foot!

So here's a progress report so far :oDOn Saturday night i did the heel flap.

Lombard Street - heel
Originally uploaded by franneyk.

I used the "eye of partridge" heel directions from SKS (where else!) and i've carried the back cable down into the heel. I'm not entirely sure i like it though, it gets a bit lost in the slip stitch pattern of the heel, i think i should have left those six cable stitches as knit stitches to stop it getting drawn in. I do really like the garter band i think it gives it a nice tidy edge and picking up the gusset stitches was quite easy too :o)

Lombard Street - gusset
Originally uploaded by franneyk.

For the sole i am doing a reverse stocking stitch, or as Charlene Schurch calls it a "princess foot", it's a pain to work, i hate doing purls in the round, i always get in a tangle on the first stitch and i also get a ladder there too. Hopefully once it's washed and blocked(worn *lol*) it'll even the stitches out a bit more :o)
Tonight i will cast on the second sock and hopefully see the same progress which means i'll be doing the feets on Thursday, if i work quicker i might even have them finished and ready to wear to the craft show on Friday! That would be cool :oD

Do excuse the crap photos, the camera on my "new" phone isn't very good :o(

Lombard Street socks

Lombard Street socks
Originally uploaded by franneyk.

Here is my first sock started last night for February. One evening's knitting produced a whole cuff!! GO ME! *LOL*
So far i have followed the pattern but tonight when i do the heel i will make some changes ;o)
I'm using the lovely merino that Toni sent me in the bagswap on Townies, it is really soft and springy to knit with, a little splitty but i can cope with that. The one thing i am not sure about is whether i should stretch it as i knit it or leave it at the same tension it is spun at, if that makes sense? So far i have been "not" pulling it tight and i have a nice dense fabric, i think if i pull it ithgt it will make it thiner and harder, the fabric i have now is thick and soft - yummy! I can't wait to finish them!
I'm doing the sock down to the end of the gusset decreases on magic loop and then i'll start the other one then finish them both two on one so that i don't have to count rows so dilligently when it do the feets :o)