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Things have been a little stressed in the ‘deia household lately… realising we haven’t had a holiday in nearly a year we decided to spend last weekend in Brussels. I only had a few days to do some travelling research (e.g. posting on Ravelry to find all the decent yarn stores), as a result I never did find a yarn store! But I did find great beer, mussels and of course chocolate!

Tags: Brussels, Travel

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Remember way back at the beginning of March I mentioned a KAL… well as hard as I tried I just could not finish these socks in the 31 days! In fact I only just managed to finish one sock by the 2nd of April.

When I tried the sock on, I realised it didn’t fit. The foot was too wide, the heel was too tight and I couldn’t get the sock past my ankle. I decided to set the sock aside and wait for my Sock(topus) Club parcel. But then fate stepped in as I had a long tube journey, so I picked up the sock and headed out. I am pretty use to knitting on the tube, however frogging was a new experience, although no one said anything, all the looks I got were shock!

I was making the 9 inch versions on 64 stitches, I ripped back to the heel, re-doing the short row on 38 stitches (I thought I would leave the foot a little baggy). Once I got to the heel I amended the pattern to add some extra stitches into the pattern (adding an extra 8 stitches).

Amendments are worked in the extra ribbing on the side of the pattern, starting on row 1 or 9

For size 9.0″:

Rnd 1 : k1, p1 * p1, k1, M1
Rnd 2: k1, p1 * p1, k2
Rnd 3: k1, p1*  p1, k1, M1, k1
Rnd 4: k1, p1 * p1, k4
Rnd 5: k1, p1 * p1, k2, M1 purlwise, k2
Rnd 6: k1, p1 * p1, k2, p1, k2
Rnd 7: k1, p1 * p1, k2, p1, M1 purlwise, k2
Rnd 8: k1, p1 * p1, k2, p2, k2, p2, k2

* See pattern for details.

Tags: malabrigomarch, Socks

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