{"id":513,"date":"2010-11-01T22:49:06","date_gmt":"2010-11-02T05:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gknerd.com\/?p=513"},"modified":"2010-11-01T22:49:06","modified_gmt":"2010-11-02T05:49:06","slug":"never-doing-that-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/?p=513","title":{"rendered":"Never Doing That Again"},"content":{"rendered":"

Four months ago, I decided to give flap heels a try<\/a>.\u00a0 From the get go, I knew I wasn’t going to like the resulting socks – a good part of the reason I decided to try the flap heel on this pair is because I already didn’t like the yarn, so if the heel turned out badly, I wouldn’t mind too much.\u00a0 And yet, somehow, the reality is worse than I could have imagined.\u00a0 I now know, without any shadow of a doubt, that I will not ever knit another flap heel.<\/p>\n

Why?<\/p>\n

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Because the damn thing tickles<\/em>!<\/p>\n

I’ve always had super sensitive feet.\u00a0 I resisted making socks for years<\/em> because when I tried my first pair (on size 2US\/2.75-3mm needles) the purl bumps hurt my feet when I walked on them.\u00a0 It wasn’t until I tried again on size 0US\/2mm needles years later that I finally figured out what all the sock fever was about in the knitting community.\u00a0 Even on the small needles I’m using, though, I still avoid cotton yarns most of the time due to their stiffness and the way the stitches hold their definition against my feet.<\/p>\n

But flap heels!\u00a0 They have ridges!\u00a0 On the inside of the foot!\u00a0 And OH MY GOD DOES IT TICKLE.\u00a0 I can’t imagine willingly wearing these socks anywhere or for any period of time.<\/p>\n

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Not, mind you, that I would have anyway – the colors are likewise atrocious.<\/p>\n

Luckily, taste being what it is and variable between people, one of my coworkers actually likes<\/em> the colorway for these socks and<\/em> her feet are the same size as mine.\u00a0 It’s win-win: I get the damn things out of my house, and she actually wants to have them for her very own!<\/p>\n

As for the yarn – this was another Deborah Norville<\/a> yarn, and while it didn’t have the ridiculous number of cut ends as the first pair, it still wasn’t entirely enjoyable to knit with – it’s kind of rough on my hands (surprising when the first pair were so soft) and kind of splitty, and frankly it feels cheap (no surprise, given that it was ridiculous<\/em> cheap when I bought it – we’re talking $5\/pair of socks cheap).<\/p>\n

So it looks like Deborah still gets one more chance with the last colorway of hers I have in my stash (eventually – I want a break with some nice Tofutsies before I go back to Deborah) before I pass final judgment on her entire yarn line.<\/p>\n

As for the flap heel – no more chances.\u00a0 One pair of tickle-y socks is enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Four months ago, I decided to give flap heels a try.\u00a0 From the get go, I knew I wasn’t going to like the resulting socks – a good part of the reason I decided to try the flap heel on this pair is because I already didn’t like the yarn, so if the heel turned […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[33],"class_list":["post-513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-socks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}