They look like they were knit for different sized feet! I eventually loosened up on the first sock, right about when I decided to pick up each yarn as I needed it instead of carrying one in each hand. So I haven't quite picked up all of the intricate details of this new technique, but I'm enjoying the process.This should give you some idea of how tight my knitting was on the first sock. I'm wearing the first sock in this picture, with some very stressed out stitches:
And here are the stitches while I'm wearing the second sock:
Ah, much better. For a while I had a grand scheme which involved knitting an extra sock top, cutting and picking up live stitches in the first sock, and then grafting a new top half to the old bottom with the proper colors for each stitch. Danger. Excitement. This grand scheme has, however, been rejected. At this point I have decided to either (A) frog down to the point where my stitches loosened up, and then knit back to the top as if I had begun from the toe, or (B) frog all the way down and start over. The attractiveness of option (A) is not having to knit a sock from the complete beginning. The problem is that I'm not sure how well I will be able to line up the patterns between the rehabilitated first sock and the second sock. The attractiveness of option (B) is being able to fix all of the mistakes I made the first time around and ending with a nearly identical pair of socks.Now that I've loosened up my stitches the stocking will fit around the circumference of my calf, and so these will officially become knee socks. Here's one last laugh for you.
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"At this point I have decided to either (A) frog down to the point where my stitches loosened up, and then knit back to the top as if I had begun from the toe..."
Recently I read about this technique (as in, it was on some blog and I don't remember which one) where it was pointed out that the technique doesn't work for colorwork. Reason: When you switch directions from top-toe to toe-top, your loops are between the stitches you originally knit, so you'd have a half-stitch jag in your pattern (unless you managed to start again on a monochromatic row).
Thanks for the tip, that makes so much sense. Option B it is!
I recently had the opposite problem on a pair of gloves as I was rushing to finish them. (And now they've languished unfinished for four months..) The second is sized for a five year old and the first fits my (just slightly larger) hand.
Good luck. My main avoidance of frogging is because it black!
I wish you the best with this term.. mine has been quite interesting thus far.
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