Lost in the swirling Coriolis
Last week, I cast on some Socks that Rock and started a pair of Coriolis socks from Cat Bordhi’s new book, New Pathways for Sock Knitters. After I knit the toe and started looking at the rest of the directions, I realized that I really wanted to do the swirling Coriolis but I had done a standard toe instead of the whirlpool toe required for the swirling Coriolis. I frogged and started over. Things were going well. I was well into the Coriolis part on Saturday night and sat happily knitting along while watching tv. Sunday, I realized that I had added a stitch several rounds back. I couldn’t figure out how to rip back and pick up the Coriolis so I ripped back to the end of the toe and started the Coriolis again. Zipping right along . . . by last night I was almost done with the Coriolis arch expansion section and figured I would try on the sock. Hmmmm . . . it seemed rather long. Now I know when I knit the heel it will pull in quite a bit but it still seemed too long. I measured my row gauge again and set about figuring out the length of the toe again. How I can screw up the toe calculations every time I knit a sock from this book is beyond me! My original calculation was 4.25″ for the toe . . . I couldn’t be more wrong . . . I did the calculation again . . . twice . . . and got 3.25″. So I ripped the toe yet again back to 3.25″ and am once again knitting the Coriolis arch expansion. Ugh! I think these socks hate me.
