I am so loving this sock yarn.

Last night, as I was watching Time Team and enjoying the straight-forward, self-striping delights of this sock, it occurred to me that if I kept going with the instep increases the stripes were going to get skinnier. And that heel flap socks don’t always look that great with contrasting heel yarn.

Next thing I was ignoring Time Team as I forced my sluggish brain to come up with a solution. It was this: I kept the five instep increases I’d done, and launched straight into short row heel, wrapping 12 times each side.

And it worked perfectly. The extra ten stitches made a heel big enough to fit my wierd feet. I then decreased in line with the instep increases to get back to the foot circ stitch count, to fit my ankles. (See little yellow triangle doodles above.)

It wasn’t a flash of brilliance so much as blindingly obvious, really. I think someone has suggested it to me before, too. Yes, that must be it. My brain is too befuddled by this wierd energy-draining virus at the moment to think up anything useful, let lone clever.

Have I mentioned how much I love this yarn?