Sock Madness Round 4

 

These socks looked deceptively manageable. Most of the sock is plain knitting, but there are two panels of brioche; the rib knitting, not the bread. They are worked intarsia style. The main color goes all the way around each round, but the contrast works once each round forwards or backwards.

 I did get tired of flipping the sock around for just five stitches at a time, so I started working the stitches in reverse, then placing them onto the working needle. Eventually, I figured out how to throw with my left hand (I’m a “continental’ or “picker” knitter - hold the working yarn in my left hand). This improved my speed and felt more comfortable than switching around and around, potentially dropping stitches.

Finished and approved.

Brintarsia by Renee Strouts

Thoughts on cup shaping for a person with a rounder torso

 Had a thought, wanted to bounce it off you, might be a run away train with no destination yet.

- My torso is basically flat on front, where my breasts start, then slants back. This is made most obvious by the way my breasts point out about 90° to each other when wearing a bra made for “typical” breasts (straight out in front on flatter torso). You know the one? You lay down the bra and the wires are flat and two perfect mounds look great sitting there. Not me.

- My wire has to be larger than someone with a flatter torso because it is not just going across, but also back. Think of the cross edge of a right triangle, it has to be longer than the two edges to join both points.

- The wire basically is meant to be worn across a flat torso. What size would mine be if set across parallel to the front? (Way smaller!)

- Therefore my pattern should also have a long flat area in the cup side. If I use two wires to help build the cup pattern itself, then perhaps it should be the smaller one used to set that smaller portion of my breast balanced, as I was initially instructed to get a balanced even cup (which resulted in nips pointing out, rather than forward).

Then, I can add back in the portion between the two wires to support the side of my breast which would be added to an already shaped public side of the cup.

Thoughts?

Sock Madness 2025 Round 3

The socks this round seemed straightforward. A well charted pattern that started off tricky, but was quickly rhythmic. After closing up the toes, I noticed that I had dropped a stitch, causing one sock to have 5 stripes of ribbing, whereas the other had six. I had to open the toe and drop a couple stitches back to fix the error.

Finished and approved.

Itamaraty Socks by Anna Zuravleva