2025-11-22 Gyllengrans event After court I switched to nålbindning, as I knew the feast hall would be lit by candlelight. I started a new pair of blue nålbinded short socks for me of a thick yarn.
This time I decided to start from the ankel and work down. I used whatever the variation of Finnish stitch where you have only one loop around the thumb at a time, but take the needle through both it and the previous loop, from front to back, twist them and pass the needle through what will become the new thumb loop. I did this stitch all away atound the first pass around the ankle, working one sock left handed till it was long enough to fit, then did the other sock right handed to the same point, so I could be certain they were the same length. I even picked out the first couple of stitches which are always a little wonky compared to the rest of the row, and tightened the beginning to a nice looking taper. When I was happy with both starting rows, they were the correct length to fit me and they were the same (other than working direction), I started spiraling, but for this second row I switched to grabbing only the loop from the thumb for the twist, which makes for a more open texture pattern that I think will look nice as a pattern change. After that row had come all the way back to the starting point I switched back to the first stitch, as the denser pattern will be better for the socks themselves. By around 21:00 I had gotten the third row of both socks to the point where it opens up to leave room to later attach the heel spiral, taken one of them long enough to start attaching that row to the far side of the foot, and on the other sock about half of the distance before attaching it to the far side of the foot. From here the plan is:
- Spiral down to the toes, decreasing diameter as needed to fit
- fill in the heels with spirals, possibly the opposite direction I ran out of the dark blue after doing the feet, do switched to a lighter blue for the heels, which wound up bigger than needed On 2026-05-20 I fixed a toe that had opened
