#I think soon i'll make a start on some winter socks... currently seeking advice on how to make those

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Socks!

The main yarn is West Yorkshire Spinners Signature 4ply in Passion Fruit Cooler, with Regia 4ply in Yellow as the contrast yarn. I managed to perfectly match up the stripes which is so pleasing and I think they look great!

This time I decided to make the socks a bit snugger by reducing the number of stitches and used the Rye Light on Ravelry, as it has quite a few different stitch quantities.

I went down to 60 stitches for the foot, with gauge 9st/inch on 2.75mm needles, and made the foot 22.5cm long with worked out to 63 rows + 17 toe.

Now the weirdness on these socks is that 60st cast on is too small to fit over my heel, so I actually cast on 70st, then decreased 1st per row on the cuff. It looks kinda weird, but it works. I was really struggling to find any information online about how people deal with this issue, because with Old Norwegian cast on it simply isn't stretchy enough.

After wearing these for a day, I think these feel a bit better in terms of fit, although I feel like it's still not quite right... but quite frankly I'm almost tearing my hair out trying to figure out exactly the right method to get the fit just right. These socks seem to fall down off my heel slightly, which I've read means they are too short, but they are actually longer than recommended (which is 10% less than foot length).

The funny thing for me with my sock knitting is that I seem to use such a tiny amount of yarn. I've made 2 pairs out of this WYS yarn (admittedly using contrast yarn for cuff & toe for both and the leg is quite short) and I STILL have about 30g of yarn left (that's about enough for another pair!). What is going on here??

Hey where tf did that HOLE in the side of my sock come from???