4/XI/2015
Not ten repeats total. Nopety-nope. But 8 it will be.

29/X/2015
Both heels are finished and I’m already almost done with the 6th repeat. I had planned to knit 7 repeats total (3.5 on the foot, 3.5 on the leg), but after adding the heels I had 51 grams left (!!!), so I can easily do more.
My math (see below) is still correct – it takes 4 grams per sock for one repeat, so technically I could do 6 more repeats, having a total of 12. But that doesn’t factor in the ribbing, which is about 1 repeat.
So, 5 more possible repeats. But (again), I want to keep some yarn for darning purposes, which would equal the heel plus some. One heel took about the amount of 1 repeat.
To sum up: I will do 4 more repeats. In total: 10 repeats. A round number.
… we will see if I get to actually do this.

25/X/2015
I started the first heel, yay! Okay, to be honest, as I’m typing this I’ve only just picked up the stitches. But I tried it on to see if I need to add some stitches for the leg & I took a pic.
These are soooo pretty. I hope I get them done until the 31st.

1/X/2015
It’s time for some math. This part will be edited if necessary.
After 4.5 repeats, I have 66 grams left for both socks, including the afterthought heel.
This means I have already used up 34 grams, 17 grams for each sock. 17/4.5 g = 3.7777 grams/repeat/sock, rounded to 4 grs.
Hypothetically, I could do 12,5 repeats on each sock (100 grs / 4g / 2 socks). If I take 1 full repeat fort he heel, and 0.5 for the ribbing, I’d be able to get 11 repeats out of the yarn!

I’ll reassess the numbers after 5 repeats.

27/IX/2015
After I realised I was short before placing the heel placeholder, I knit until I got that done - 3.5 pattern repeats done! I’m now on the leg and in the 4th repeat. After placing the waste yarn I decreased a few of the gusset stitches because my ankles don’t need the extra room crated by the gusset. Hopefully this doesn’t prove as a fault, meaning I can’t get my feet into the sock. We’ll see.
I don’t want to break the colour pattern, so these will be true afterthought heel socks. Still pondering how long I’ll make them, though. There will probably be enough yarn left for the actual heel.

22/VII/2015
Had to put them on hiatus because other projects required my full attention, even at work in my lunch break. But since my latest project is a lace shawl, which i can’t knit at work (too complicated, too much distraction), I pulled them out again. Almost at the heel now.
The fugged up beginning of the cable pattern oesn’t bother me still, the gorgeousness of the yarn makes this easily to forget.
I also managed to loose a stitch in the cable part, but I managed to put it back up almost fine. See above about the yarn and the mistakes.

28/IV/2015
Yep, I had to jump onto the bandwagon and make these.
It took me the first half of the initial repeat, so I fugged that part up, but anyway, now I have understood it and it’s coming along nicely.
Already sooooo in love with these.