{"id":82,"date":"2008-12-03T08:43:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-03T13:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/blog\/2008\/12\/03\/just-a-little-tweak\/"},"modified":"2008-12-03T08:43:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-03T13:43:00","slug":"just-a-little-tweak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/blog\/2008\/12\/03\/just-a-little-tweak\/","title":{"rendered":"Just a Little Tweak…"},"content":{"rendered":"

After I’d done these<\/a>
\n“diamond moss stitch” socks, I chided myself for not having adjusted
\nLesley Stanfield’s stitch pattern (for the diamonds) to work in the
\nround.  You can see the “disconnect” between the segments of welt
\nhere:<\/p>\n

\"diamond<\/p>\n

\nI decided to make that adjustment and use the same motif in the current
\nsock project (which uses Tess
\nSuperSock yarn<\/a> — nice tight twist and excellent for stitch
\ndefinition).  As I was at the point of beginning to knit the ankle
\npatterning, I bravely threw down a revised diagram to work for, and set
\nto work as soon as the ferry pulled away from the wharf.  And
\nbefore the ferry docked, I knew I was in trouble.   
\nIt’s just not so simple as all that…<\/p>\n

If you look at the original stitch pattern sample in the book, the
\nstockinette diamonds are in isolation in a sea of moss stitch. 
\nI.e., there is no horizontal hookup.    As I spent the
\nnext while trying to get the start of one (moss stitch) diamond to line
\nup with the end of the last, I began to understand why.  The 2
\nstitches of travelling welt throw a monkey wrench into the whole
\npattern evolution.  Compared to the result in the picture above,
\nthere need to be 4 rows to to accommodate the progression of the welt
\nsmoothly from one vertical repeat to the next.  I fumbled around
\nand eventually made that work, WITH the moss stitch diamonds aligning
\nin successive vertical repeats.  But, the stockinette segments are
\nno longer diamonds — they’ve been pulled into generic
\nparallelograms.    <\/p>\n

I think<\/span> favouring the moss
\nstitch as the most visually apparent item is the right choice.  If
\nnot, perhaps I’ll make another sock and let the moss stitch go wherever
\nand keep the stockinette diamonds intact.  Or, maybe I’ll just go
\nfind another pattern to beat on \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

I’m trying hard not to think about the fact that this is another case
\nwhere some judicious swatching at the outset would have saved some
\nheartache and ripping back.  It would have.  Swatching is
\nimportant.  It’s just that socks are supposed to be the easy “just
\ndo it” projects, and there is rarely time for swatching as I’m headed
\nout the door and grabbing yarn to make sure I don’t run out of stuff to
\nknit while on the road.<\/p>\n

Oh, you want to see<\/span> the
\ncurrent efforts?  Well, presently…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After I’d done these “diamond moss stitch” socks, I chided myself for not having adjusted Lesley Stanfield’s stitch pattern (for the diamonds) to work in the round.  You can see the “disconnect” between the segments of welt here: I decided … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all","category-knitting"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7dQdt-1k","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}