{"id":1534,"date":"2012-05-31T12:48:35","date_gmt":"2012-05-31T11:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/?p=1534"},"modified":"2012-05-27T12:57:55","modified_gmt":"2012-05-27T11:57:55","slug":"i-dont-like-toe-up-socks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/2012\/05\/i-dont-like-toe-up-socks\/","title":{"rendered":"I Don&#8217;t Like Toe Up Socks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/wendy-happy_medium-150x112.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"Wendy Happy\" width=\"150\" height=\"112\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1358\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/wendy-happy_medium-150x112.png 150w, https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/wendy-happy_medium-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/wendy-happy_medium.png 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/> I tried another toe-up sock pattern a few weeks ago and ended up frogging the sock at the heel in pure frustration.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not the toe-up part that I have a problem with. I can easily do a provisional crochet cast-on and then graft the toe later. No &#8212; it&#8217;s the short-row heel that I hate. All of those wrap and double-wrap loops drive me nuts and I think the whole heel just looks lumpy compared to the nice, neat, heel on a toe-down sock.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In this case, it probably didn&#8217;t help that I was using a bamboo sock yarn that tended to split if you looked sideways at it, so picking up the double-wraps was pure hell. In the end, it got to the point where I wondered &#8220;Why am I putting myself through this?&#8221;, so the needles were pulled out and the horrible thing was frogged in a temper.<\/p>\n<p> I&#8217;m now knitting a pair of ankle-down socks using a lovely (recycled) merino sock yarn as a form of therapy &#038; I&#8217;m pleased to report that the patient is improving nicely. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I tried another toe-up sock pattern a few weeks ago and ended up frogging the sock at the heel in pure frustration. It&#8217;s not the toe-up part that I have a problem with. I can easily do a provisional crochet cast-on and then graft the toe later. No &#8212; it&#8217;s the short-row heel that I hate. All of those wrap and double-wrap loops drive me nuts and I think the whole heel just looks lumpy compared to the nice, neat, heel on a toe-down sock.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1358,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[19,21],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1534"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1534"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1543,"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1534\/revisions\/1543"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}