my happy socks are growing nicely. i love how the colours play together. there is a rather visible line down the middle of the soles where i change the colours but i don't mind that so much. once the socks have been worn and washed it will hardly by visible any more.
as you can see, i've put in lifelines for an afterthought heel already. i came across this video by Cat Bordhi that shows a brilliant way of inserting an afterthought heel. (actually she shows how to do an afterthought leg in the video but i thought i would try it for the heel of my socks.)
wish me luck for i have never cut into my knitting before... but it will all go well - i think...
it did go well:
i had a moment of terror there when i discovered that i had dropped three! stitches only when i had just closed the heel on the second sock. (it was rather late already.) i managed to pick them up and lift them back up to the bind-off where i darned the stitches in with quite a lenght of yarn. the heel is a bad place for this and i hope it holds up and does not wear out too quickly... but one advantage of an afterthought heel is that it can be replaced with comparative ease.
now i can go on and use up all the rest of my yarn leftovers on the leg...
happy knitting everyone!