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Achievement unlocked!
I have Knitted A Sock! It's the "basic sock" pattern out of Folk Socks. It only took five and a half years!
I am actually feeling much prouder of the accomplishment than I expected. And, unexpectedly, it even fits! My left foot is warm. Unfortunately I made it out of some strange yarn I bought at a thrift store that's no longer in business, and there's not quite enough in the same color to do a second sock (there's some almost-the-same-color of the same yarn, though.)
And I still haven't figured out the SSK decrease, but, eh, it feels fine, it just doesn't quite look right. :P
And now I don't have any unfinished knitting or crochet projects kicking around and I'm at loose ends.
I am actually feeling much prouder of the accomplishment than I expected. And, unexpectedly, it even fits! My left foot is warm. Unfortunately I made it out of some strange yarn I bought at a thrift store that's no longer in business, and there's not quite enough in the same color to do a second sock (there's some almost-the-same-color of the same yarn, though.)
And I still haven't figured out the SSK decrease, but, eh, it feels fine, it just doesn't quite look right. :P
And now I don't have any unfinished knitting or crochet projects kicking around and I'm at loose ends.
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Um, knit the other sock out of the pair (even if you will have to use a slightly different yarn color)
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Start one of the 19th century patterns out of the book, to wear for cosplay, which was the original plan once you had leveled up Knitter of Socks five years ago.
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Start one of the non-sock knitting projects you've been saying you will once sock was done, like that Icelandic sweater you bought all that lopi for.
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Good now finish up all your unfinished sewing/embroidery/quilting/naalbinding/spinning/weaving/mending/electronics repair/painting projects before you start something new.
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Ticky.
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SSKs are overrated imo.
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However, I still can't tell SSK from K2TBL. So... whatever works.
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I really do like the result better than what I got when trying to do it American-style, though. I though it was because I was doing it wrong, but maybe it's just worse. :P
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I had the same issue, but I think I must have been using a different heel turn technique--I made a pair of socks that way that had a wonderful spiral twist all up the ankle, but the heels still worked out.
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I think so? I took a "basic" class from a German woman (who did apologize to us for probably confusing us for life!) who was teaching some version of continental, and then I spent many years (pre-youtube) messing around without patterns or from very old books, and then when I decided to try to level up and knit things that were not just tubes or rectangles with very simple increase/decreases, I was using Icelandic patterns. So I think I default to something similar, but not identical to, combined knitting. I tried to teach myself American style a few years back, but I'm not sure I was doing that right either, so I stopped before I learned a different set of bad habits. And I found it a lot harder on the wrists and fingers, too, so I wasn't super invested in retraining.
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To me usually K2TOG looks like one column of stitches got eaten by the other one, while SSK looks like two columns smoothly merged into one, but I think that's mostly because I'm usually better at SSK because slipping makes the stitches a bit looser so it's easier to get in there and knit them together. So the two connected stitches lie a little more flat, and any bunching that happens is mostly on the wrong/purl side of the knitting.
But it doesn't really matter as long as you have a decrease.
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(I have the same problem with increases, and a sweater which has been stalled out for years because of it--I can't find a formula for bust darts that doesn't rely on being able to make right- and left-slanted increases.)
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Yep, that's exactly what all the books say too! But I don't have a twist in the yarn at that point so it doesn't do anything. I was mostly worried on the sock that it would be the wrong kind of lumpy, but I think, based on the way my sock pattern was using them, that ssk/k2tog are inverses, such that if you do one at one end of a row, and one at the other, your result will be symmetrical? So I have a very slightly non-symmetrical toe and it's fine. Unfortunately some of the fancier historical patterns in my Folk Socks book actually use the increases/descreases as part of the pattern, so if I want to keep going in the book, I should probably figure it out. If I decide to do it right I may just end up doing a sampler with all the increases/decreases in the book and messing around until I manage to get something that looks right for each one, which is pretty much the only way I learn motor skills anyway.
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But I suspect that even when it's part of the pattern, the fact of the decrease is more important that what it looks like.
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For a lot of stockings with knitted "clocks", the heel shaping is the pattern, and the way you do different increases/decreases is part of what makes it fancy clocks rather than a shaped heel. But I think they're using fancier decreases than ssk for those, too. And some of the Scandinavian colorwork socks work hidden decreases into the color pattern (like in a sweater yoke, but more confusing) although I think those mostly just use k2tog.
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IDK what just happened but i think it's time for bed.
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I think you get better results if you google clocks stockings, but most of the results seem to be for fancy embroidered ones rather than knitted-in (it's the same idea though, the embroidery disguises the heel shaping.)