Idle sock question

WOW. That sounds way cool, but I think I'll experiment w/toes for a
while first (am knitting DH a pair of wool-hemp mixture socks). I got
several EZ books for my bday, will look up socks when I have a minute.

SlinkyToy wrote:
You can do better than simple right- and left-toe construction - you can
make -footed socks! Elizabeth Zimmerman discusses the method in one of her
books (don't ask me which, I don't recall offhand), and it is also in Meg
Swansen's Knitting, and MAY be in Vogue Knitting American Classics as well.

What makes them -footed? Instep shaping, of course


"spampot" wrote in message
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...or rather, idle question about socks. Has anyone here ever made
right-footed and left-footed socks? You know how most sock toe ends
resemble a cone or a snipped-off triangle (or a trapezoid; does a
trapezoid have to have a right angle, or is it enough that it has two
parallel sides?)? Well, most people's toes (not mine, but that's
another story) are closer to a right triangle with the hypotenuse
forming the outline of the toes -- the big toe being the shorter leg of
the right angle -- aren't they? So, has anyone tried doing the toe
decreases only along the little-toe edge, and thus coming to the
"snipped-off triangle" at the top of the big toe? It seems logical to
me that the socks would fit better.

Aha! Maybe I'll try that for the second sock for DH. My toes are an
odd shape, they're perfectly straight, more like fingers than toes, so I
should really hardly decrease at all for my own socks -- certainly on
the big-toe side. Thanks for the advice, Sue.

Sue wrote:
Hi,
I just had to jump out of lurkdom on this one. I've only knitted one pair of
socks ever - bedsocks in aran weight yarn. I knitted the first one with the
standard symmetrical shape toe, and found that it pressed my big toe
sideways. Not comfortable. I made the second one the exact shape of my foot
by drawing round my foot on to graph paper and doing the calculations
needed. I ended up with only 3 rounds of decreases on the big toe side (the
last 3 rounds) but started the decreases on the little toe side earlier
than for a standard sock, and these decreases were of the K3 tog variety.
The result was a sock that fitted the shape of my foot just right, so I
tinked the toe of the first one and did a mirror image to match. The great
thing is that the grafting at the toe was over only 6sts.

Sue in the East of England, UK


"spampot" wrote in message
...

...or rather, idle question about socks. Has anyone here ever made
right-footed and left-footed socks? You know how most sock toe ends
resemble a cone or a snipped-off triangle (or a trapezoid; does a
trapezoid have to have a right angle, or is it enough that it has two
parallel sides?)? Well, most people's toes (not mine, but that's
another story) are closer to a right triangle with the hypotenuse
forming the outline of the toes -- the big toe being the shorter leg of
the right angle -- aren't they? So, has anyone tried doing the toe
decreases only along the little-toe edge, and thus coming to the
"snipped-off triangle" at the top of the big toe? It seems logical to
me that the socks would fit better.