Socks : Fixing a Felted Cuff - 30 September 2024
Back in June I wrote a post update about the bright yellow socks I knitted and gave to a friend. She put them in the long wash and the orange ribbing cuff shrank. This meant that she couldn’t wear the socks anymore because they were too tight.
Before and After
As I’ve had the socks in my ‘to fix’ pile for a while I thought I’d better tackle them and try to fix them.
The first step I took was to identify where I was going to cut the knitting. I used a recent post where I was trying to lengthen a sock cuff. The principle is the same and luckily I used two bright colours so it was easy to determine where I should make that first cut.
I can only imagine how difficult this process would be had I used the same colour or a very dark colour. I only needed to cut a couple of times and then with the same knitting needle I started pulling each orange stitch out. This was only difficult because that colour had felted because it was 100% vintage wool.
I continued pulling the orange colour stitches and releasing the first row of the yellow stitches slowly but surely.
You can see the felted cuff in the background
The yellow stitches ‘behaved’ well and so I didn’t have to struggle to put the same size needles into each stitch.
I soon had the right number of stitches distributed in the three double pointed needles (dpns) and was ready to continue with the ribbing. This time I used a 2 x 2 rib and used yarn I had available but it wasn’t a solid colour - it was definitely not wool either.
I used a stretchy cast off method I learnt here :
Although the sock doesn’t look as bright and new now, it still has a few months of life left in it. I call this a successful upcycle.
I used the cardboard blockers I made again so they looked a bit less creased
Here are the other posts I've written about this pair of socks:
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