A bit more "orange hot" than really red, but I wanted orange yarn anyway. I love the self striping colors, too. You can't see them very well in this bad photo, but I'm in a rush and wanted to post SOMETHING.
I am doing my own "pattern." My niece says that Zach wears size 2.5 which seems HUGE for a 5 year old. She says, yes, he has monster feet.
Here is my "Knitting Math" for these socks:
Size: 2.5
8 2/3 inches foot length
7 1/4 in width around cuff
gauge:
8 stitches/in
10 rows /in
Circumference 7.25 in x 8 st/in = 58 so
100% = 58 I'm going with 56 It's easier if there are even numbers on the needles and when you divide 58 by 2 you get 29.
50% (stitches on each needle) = 28
75% = 42
25% = 14
X = desired total sock length = 8 2/3 8.67 in
Y = # rows in gusset and heel cup (75% circumference-1)= 41
Z = rows per inch = 10
X - (Y/Z) = TGL
8.67 - (41 / 10) = 4.57 inches
4.57 in x 10 rows/in = 45.7 in rounded up to 46 rows from tip of toe to gusset.
the toes will increase each row so casting on 8 on each needle
12 rows of toes (11 increases + 1 row of just K)
34 rows of foot
This last part in bold is new. I have discovered a potentially fatal flaw in the socks I made for Allie. The formula given in Toe-Up 2 at a Time Socks give a Toe to Gusset length. I was thinking: End of the toe section to gusset! But on re-reading the book, it is from the tip of the toe to the beginning of the gusset!!!! O! no! I believe the socks for Allie are about 1 1/2 inches too long. Exactly the length of the toe section =( I will have her try them on after they are blocked (still waiting for my new blocking toys ... I mean tools), and then if they are uncomfortably long, we can decide if I should just remake them. The pattern is easy, and it took me about 2 weeks of knitting. I won't mind taking them apart and remaking them. Or I can donate them to charity, and some person with long skinny feet can have a pair of hand knitted socks!
I tried to check for some rule of thumb for how quickly/slowly to increase the sides of the toes and couldn't really find a nice formula. One blog I found said that if you increase every row, you will get wider toes, if you do an increase row followed by a straight knit row, the toes will be longer and more narrow. Also, there was no real formula saying how many stitches to cast on. So I decided to just cast on 8 stitches on each side. Then I increased each row until I had 28 stitches on each side.
I figured out how many rows of toe increases I was going to use from 8 stitches to 28 is 11 rows (I did one straight row) then added one more straight row, so 12 rows of toes, then subtracted those rows from the total Toe-to-Gusset number. 46 - 12 = 34. The foot of the sock will be 34 rows.
I am just using a simple 4x2 ribbing for the top. Because the 28 stitches to a needle is a bit of a weird number for dividing, the actual sock ribbing for the leg, will not be completely even.
The top (or instep, or front) of the leg ribbing will be:
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and the back will start with a K then repeat the pattern 4x2 , ending with an extra K:
| K | X | X | K | K | K | K | X | X | K | K | K | K | X | X | K | K | K | K | X | X | K | K | K | K | X | X | K |
So there will be 5 knits at the sides, but this will center the ribbing a bit more.
For the foot part, I will do the instep ribbing and just knit the sole. I think a ribbed sole can feel lumpy.
I am excited.
C. A. Losi
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