Keep on Sockin....

One more sock - In a new and different way. (For me, anyway.)
I've done some cuff down, a couple toe up, and now an "afterthoughts on a tube".
I got the idea from my favorite sock resource, Twisted Sister's Sock Workbook.
I started a plain tube from some yarn that I spun from some hodgepodge roving bits when I was visiting my grandmother last spring. It had alpaca, a multicolor marino and some bamboo in it - a slubby, thick and thin single. I'd started knitting it up into some leg warmers which turned out so ugly I frogged them back out (Rip-it, rip-it) and divided the yarn into two equal balls. The tube was just the right size to stash in my purse, so after two Christmas programs and a boring meeting or too, I'd knitted the yarn all up. The fragile mismatch of fiber won't hold up to high abrasion areas of a sock, so I grabbed some blue faced Leicester yarn left over from last year's mits. I made a round toe (don't like it so much, next one will be wedge.) and split the tube part way to knit in an "afterthought heel". Worked great! Can't wait to do the other one. The soft tube doesn't have any ribbing, and it's a pretty drapy sort of yarn, so the leg's going to sag, but I think that's okay. I could rib the other one, but I think for once I'll try making two socks that actually sort of match. (with the exception of the toe... )

I learned:
How to do an afterthought heel! Cutting into the middle of something you've knitted is intimidating, but not that hard.