It’s amazing how long heels, toes and cuffs take when you do them all together.

Pattern: Bakerloo Socks from Magknits July 2006
Yarn: The Knittery Merino 4ply in ‘chocolate’ and Cleckheaton Cocoon colour 0007.
Needles: 2.25 mm bamboo straight needles and dpns
Comments: Because stocking stitch doesn’t have much stretch top to botton the ‘tube’ didn’t fit over my ankle. I added ten rows to the leg side of the sock and they fit perfectly.

I also put a ten row 2×2 cuff on them. The pattern suggested you could just leave them as they are, but stocking stitch rolls inward at the sides so that didn’t seem like a good idea.

You could also put a garter border at the cuff edge as you knit the main piece. I kind of wish I’d thought of that. But this is about following patterns as closely as possible.

The ridges where I picked up stitches weren’t obvious when I tried them on, but I haven’t tried walking around in them for a day yet, so I’ll reserve judgement on that until I have.

Conclusion: I love ’em!

Guess what else I’ve been doing? Yes, I’ve been sewing up Red Blanket. Once I started, I got into the swing of it, and I had it all in one piece by the end of two days.

Now I just need to level up the bottom ends. One down side I’ve found with making blankets in strips on the loom is that it is very hard to tell exactly how long you’re making them. Though you might set up the warp the same way each time, things like how much tension you put on the warp yarn, the effect the different weft yarns have on it, and forgetting exactly where you stopped last time all contribute to strips of different lengths.

I’m planning to undo most of the ‘fringe’ knots, add some extra weaving to the third strip from the left, and then remove the weaving on the rest of the strips until they all match. I expect adding is going to be much harder than removing!