Staying up late, I finished the top of the foot, or the instep, of Anna Zilboorg’s Half-Stranded Socks.
I think I’ve mentioned before that I knit much tighter than I purl. So much so that I use a larger needle for knit rows than purl rows. For these socks, I’m using a 2.75mm needle for right-side rows and a 2.50mm needle for wrong-side rows. This keeps my stockinette looking even. (When I work with interchangeable circular needles, I put different size tips on each end of the cable.)
You might want to try this trick if you find your stockinette has a stripy appearance from the stitches being different sizes on alternate rows.
That’s a wonderful tip, thank you for sharing it! And I think your sock looks fantastic 😉
My purl stitches are also looser than my knit stitches. Thank you for the tip to use different needles sizes on interchangeable circulars. Really helpful.
I find that taking the yarn aound the needle in a clockwise direction makes for looser stitches and taking it around the need counter cockwise makes for tighter stitches. This might be a solution for you. It’s way easier than keeping track of different size needles.
Hello, I was wondering if you could explain how you picked up and knitted the cast on stitches when they were upside down?