And then there were socks

Most of my knitting day yesterday was spent working on Cassie's sweater.  It is moving along quickly.  The gauge I am working at means knitting two rows makes a real visible difference.  

My hands were just a wee bit tired of working with the chunky yarn so I decided to work on something different.  I could have worked on my Kauni yarn cowl, but I wanted to make some socks grow.  

I pulled out my Fiesta socks.  They were getting to the point where I wanted to think about the heel.  The last couple pairs of socks I have finished had toe up heel flap heels.  I like doing that construction but for this pair, I wanted to do a garter stitch short row heel.  The problem with a short row heel is that there is never quite enough stitches  to give the room for an easy to put on fit.  Oh, they cup my heel marvelously, but they are sometimes tough to get on. I do use a tool to help get socks on, but the socks are sometimes just a bit shy in the ankle and put great stress on the tool.  I broke two recently and put that down to poor construction of the tool rather than socks that are too tight at the ankles.   Still, I know how tight at the heel some of my socks are.  

So...

  

You can just make out the tiny gusset increases I made on each side of the heel stitches of this pair.  The heel will be made across all of the stitches and then the extra gusset stitches will be taken out after the heel is complete.  

With luck this will resolve the problem and the sock assist tools will not be under quite so much stress.  

Back to Cassies sweater for this mornings work and maybe socks when it is time to give the chunky yarn a rest.