Knitting socks cuff-down is a fad horror movie.
The first pair of socks I knit, I knit toe-up, from no real pattern. I did a figure-8 cast on five times until I got it right, then increased until the proto-sock fit over my toes. Then I knit like the dickens until the larval sock fit over my foot to the point where the top of my foot turns into my shin. Then I turned the heel (3 times was the charm for this feature) as per the Pine Tree Sock recipe. Then I decided said pine tree pattern was too sharp and prickly looking to go with my self-striping Laugh-In Regia Ringel (though I do want to try it in a tweedy fir-in-shadow green or fish-scale gray yarn), so I switched to the Firefighter Sock pattern. Lucky for me my socks were of a multiple-of-3 circumference already, and all was smooth sailing.
Then, rather than get stuck in a deep (TWO sock!!!) rut of toe-up-ness, I figured I'd learn how to knit the other way 'round. (Do they knit clockwise in Australia?)
I am now the Blair Witch. The first two rounds of a sock cuff are a fetishistic tangle of bent twigs, crow's blood and sheep hair. They look nothing like a sock. To be fair, neither do the first couple of rounds of a toe-up toe, which resemble a weirdly yonic god's eye. (Weird because it's a solid object in empty space, rather than the other way around, which seems more like what a yoni should be. Maybe it's a yarn hymen?) But after a few more rounds, the wool-and-bamboo marionette starts to look like a sock. I still think I prefer toe-up.
Next up: an eyelet-and-rib pattern for the Blair Witch sock.
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