Yesterday I set up the loom again and wove this:

Using the same slubby weft, but a with black 4ply warp instead of red. I made the scarf a little wider, too. I like the combination of two different colours better than the same colours.

I still have a ball and a half left of the slubby. It’s going in with some red yarn I’ve been collecting for a big knitting project that I think is going to turn into a big weaving project… but that’ll have to wait for another post.

This morning I took my old 8ply sock pattern, did the math, got it wrong, frogged, tried again and got it right. I now have a pattern for 4ply toe-up socks that have the more complicated instep gusset and heel done in two sections (the flat bit and the turn) rather than a short row heel.

The recent sock talk on Wendy Knits!spurred me into converting my pattern to 4ply (and fixing up the shonky short row heel turn I wrote before I really understood how short rows are supposed to work, with wraps and stuff). From the comments Wendy copied into her posts, it seemed visitors believed there were only two options: top down with the complicated heel or toe-up with a short row heel.

Well, obviously you can easily do a top-down sock with a short row heel, but why would you? There are so many advantages to knitting toe-up, the best being that you can make the socks as long as you want, or the yarn lasts. But has anyone else written a pattern for a toe-up sock with the three step complicated heel?

As soon as I’ve finished this sock, I’ll write out the pattern and post it.