My friends despair with me. I was about two pattern repeats from the top and finishing widdershins when I tried them on. I know I should have done so earlier but you get complacent! I could get them over my heel but I needed my foot to be able to breathe in to get them off. So out they came.

I have worked out how to increase the number of stitches in the round and still be similar to the pattern but I'm now playing with how to follow the heel pattern with more stitches. It is a reverse round heel so it looks like a traditional top down, heel flap and gusset. If any one has experience of this sort of heel and knows how to make it bigger I'd like to hear your views. If I can't work it out then I may have to knit them on a larger needle.

Oh not to be a perfectionist.:confused:
P.s. I have tried to contact the designer through the Knitty page but the link doesn't work on my computer and hubby tells me we already have javascript enabled. Sounds like I know what I'm talking about but I don't:hihi:

My friends despair with me. I was about two pattern repeats from the top and finishing widdershins when I tried them on. I know I should have done so earlier but you get complacent! I could get them over my heel but I needed my foot to be able to breathe in to get them off. So out they came.

I have worked out how to increase the number of stitches in the round and still be similar to the pattern but I'm now playing with how to follow the heel pattern with more stitches. It is a reverse round heel so it looks like a traditional top down, heel flap and gusset. If any one has experience of this sort of heel and knows how to make it bigger I'd like to hear your views. If I can't work it out then I may have to knit them on a larger needle.

Oh not to be a perfectionist.:confused:
P.s. I have tried to contact the designer through the Knitty page but the link doesn't work on my computer and hubby tells me we already have javascript enabled. Sounds like I know what I'm talking about but I don't:hihi:

Aw no - my first sock I fully completed (except the kitchenering) before I realised it was too tight for my foot and frogged it - so I understand your anguish:( Um could you knit with the next size up needle - Im sure I knit tight when knitting in the round.

Commiserations! How maddening to get that far and then have to go back to square one. Afraid I have no advice, not being a sock knitter, but sympathy in quantity :sad:

Turra21, have you had a look on the Knitty Coffeeshop (http://www.knittyboard.com/) board? They have a section about the Knitty patterns where folk share their progress and discuss any problems. I haven't had a look for anything about that pattern myself, but you might be in luck and find some suggestions. You'll need to sign up with a username and password, but it's well worth doing it.

As for the link - you mean the one to the designer's email address, where it says 'contact Brooke'? If so, if you hover the cursor over the link and look in the bottom left-hand corner of the task bar, you should see the email address displayed there.

The problem appears to be that there's a superfluous '00%' on the end, so your email program might not recognise it as an emal address. It seems to work for me in Thunderbird though :huh: .