Slip fix and love of lace

The heel flap on the Emskets is much improved. The original was done in fair isle style, alternating the light and dark colors to produce the vertical stipe. In the reworked version, I used the "mosaic" technique. The first row set up the stripes and was done with both yarns alternating the colors (k1 dark, k1 light, k1 dark, k1 light...). On subsequent rows, only a single color was worked at a time with the yarns alternating on each row (row 2 dark, row 3 light, row 4 dark, row 5 light...) To form the vertical stripes, on each row I knit (purl on the wrong side) the stitches from the previous row that were the same color as the yarn being used in that row, and slipped the stitches of the "wrong" color.


Somehow doing the heel with the slip stitch method seems to give me more rows per inch than the fair isle method, making the picked up gusset stitches (1 for every 2 rows) fit neatly into the heel flap instead of puckering. Unfortunately, I didn't think to measure the rows per inch of both versions of the heel. Someday I'll have to do this exercise again and collect the appropriate data.

It probably won't show up well in photos, but here are the before (top) and after (bottom):




Before working up enough will power to rip the Emsket heel I did a little productive procrastinating and got these done.


Pattern: Summer of Love Lace (RSC 2007 - August pattern)
Yarn: Socks that Rock - Flower Power
Needles: Addi Turbo US#1 (2.5mm)