The first pair is just a simple top-down pair with a deep ribbed cuff, a French heel, and a round toe:
The yarn is from deep in the stash; it is some old Regia Multi-Effekt. The color is called "Kastanie" which I think translates to "Chestnut."
I didn't plan to make the colors match - I had started the first sock at a place that wasn't easy to figure out on the second sock (like at the very start of a stripe) but they did kind of wind up "entraining" after the cuffs starting out a little bit offset. It always makes me happy when I can get a pair of socks out of the self-striping yarns to give the same pattern at the same place.
I particularly like how I got the "blocks" of darker color on each heel.
These socks are less orderly:
But they are the first-ever pair of toe-up socks I have knit. They use the pattern from "The Eclectic Sole" that is called "Biological Clocks" but I left off the little cable detail (which is a DNA cable...BIOLOGICAL clocks, get it?).
They are less orderly because for the first sock, I used up nearly every inch of the yarn, so I had to start the second sock "wherever" in the stripe pattern so I'd have enough - and then after the first inch of knitting, realized that the second ball was wound in reverse to the first. So the first sock goes, dark pink, light pink, brown, grey and the second sock goes grey, brown, light pink, dark pink. (I have cleverly minimized its appearance in the photo by putting the socks top-to-toe so the stripes look like they are going in the same direction).
As I said, my two "issues" with this toe up pattern are the tight, tight cast on, the heel flap (as written, both the knit and purl rows contain slipped stitches, which make the flap very short at tight. I might try a second pair sometime but have the purl row JUST purl, which I think will make the flap deeper AND make it far less tight to knit. I also think I might make more "gusset" stitches than the 12 the pattern suggests...I suppose I could consider my typical cuff-down socks and figure out how many gusset stitches THOSE have.), and the bind off.
But I might use the pattern again, especially if I can modify the heel flap. It is kind of interesting to knit a sock "backwards."
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i use a different toe for toe-up socks. i do a short-row toe (like a short-row heel) where i cast on half the # of stitches on one needle. then i work the "heel," when i've got itdone, i pick up the stitches from the cast on (did isay it wasa provisional cast on?). then iknit the foot, do a shortrow heel, then knit the leg. to keep the cast off stretchy, i either use a larger needle to cast off, or double the yarn in the cast off ala cat bordhi (makes it look like a braided edge)
i have to do a shortrow heel because flaps make the sock too deep for my heel. i have duck feet, sigh.
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