Subbing and Socks

Good morning:

I am just about to run off to knit at Crossroads with the Fiber Friday group of Eastside Stitchers.  I didn't post yesterday, so I thought I would get a quick post in before I left.

I've substituted three days this week, and wow, I am so happy I didn't get called in today.  Ha ha ha!  Three days of working and I'm exhausted.  I will say that on Tuesday when I didn't substitute, I met with two of my new students at Bellevue College for tutoring, so I have actually worked four days.  I still sound pathetic, though.

Wednesday, I subbed in a pre-kindergarten class, and one of the girls whispered to me that she was secretly a princess.  Yesterday, I subbed for a Kindergarten teacher.  I asked the children to tell me their names.  One boy said, "I am Michael," and he paused, then continued, "But my Lego name is 'Titanic.'"  Wha???????????

I brought the Lady Isgraine socks that I am knitting for the Bleeping SockGames Group.  I wasn not able to knit much during the days, as this school does not have "specialist" teachers, and I had to do recess duty.  So, there were not many breaks.  I have to admit I love subbing at schools where there is a dedicated Gym teacher, a Music teacher, a Librarian, etc, and you spend a lot of the day walking the kids down the hall to those rooms, and then returning in 20 or 30  or even 45 minutes to pick them up.  However, do those schools have a real princess and a boy named "Titanic?"

I am so close to finishing the socks.  I need about one more inch on the feet, then the toe decreases.  However, since these socks have an opening in the legs, after the toes, I will have to figure out how to crochet on the special decorative button closures, and sew on the buttons.  Thank goodness I am comfortable with crochet.

This is what the socks looked like on Wednesday:

It looks so sloppy at this point because of the opening in the side.  The heel is an elongated Eye of Partridge.  Well that is what I am naming it.  For a regular Eye of Partridge Heel, the rows are:

1.  *s1 k1*  repeat across ending with a k1
2. purl back
3. s1, *s1 k1* repeat * to * across ending with a k1
4. purl back

This heel was an eight row repeat with:
1. *s1 k1* repeat across ending with a k1
2.  purl back
3. repeat row 1
4. purl back

5. s1, *s1 k1* repeat * to * across ending with a k1
6. purl back
7. repeat row 5
8. purl back

I had to tink many times as I either switched too early, or thought I had already switched so I didn't switch, and it was starting to look like a traditional slip stitch heel. 

Anyway the heel looks a bit like this:

 You can see a possible few rows where I went three times with k1 s1 before switching to the  sl k1.  Oh well.

I need to finish getting dressed and it's off to Crossroads!

Peace,
f1bercat
shaping the planet with almost sort of close to finished socks.