TARDIS Socks
Finished
March 27, 2013
May 25, 2013

TARDIS Socks

Project info
TARDIS Socks by Keladry B
Knitting
Feet / LegsSocksMid-calf
Me
Standard—but came out too big even on size 0, and I have BIG feet!
Needles & yarn
US 0 - 2.0 mm
386 yards
Dale Garn Baby Ull
153 yards in stash
0.15 skeins = 27.0 yards (24.7 meters), 7 grams
5137
White
ImagiKnit in San Francisco, California
Dale Garn Baby Ull
153 yards in stash
0.15 skeins = 27.0 yards (24.7 meters), 7 grams
3440
Black
ImagiKnit in San Francisco, California
Koigu Premium Merino (KPM)
18 yards in stash
1.9 skeins = 332.5 yards (304.0 meters), 95 grams
20
Blue
ImagiKnit in San Francisco, California
Notes

Sadly, my TARDIS socks are bigger on the OUTSIDE. They fit perfectly until I gave them a Eucalan bath and blocked them, and now they have bagged out of control, so I’m thinking about cautiously trying to shrink them a bit or sewing in some elastic thread to keep them up.

I think I need to get ahold of some sub-zero sock needles for the future.

5/25/13: So the socks seemed DONE… all ends woven in, they seemed to be fitting just lovely, I used duplicate stitch to touch up the lettering etc. But… see above.

4/3/13: I’ve started knitting the TARDIS panels and I hate the long slip stitches—they seem like they’re really going to snag badly. I think I’m going to unravel and try this suggestion from other Ravelers:

Rnd 1: sl 1, k8, repeat around
Rnd 2: k1, p8 repeat around
Rnd 3: sl1, k8, repeat around
Rnd 4: knit all stitches
repeat rnds 3 & 4 until 14 rnds total. Repeat rnds 1-14 2 more times.

I also found that even knitting with size zeros they were too baggy around the ankles for me, so I did quite a bit of decreasing — by 16 stitches total—in the last TARDIS panel to tighten up the ankle and foot. Didn’t want to mess with the charts above. Probably should have, though.

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May 25, 2013
 
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  • Project created: March 26, 2013
  • Finished: May 25, 2013
  • Updated: May 27, 2013
  • Progress updates: 5 updates