Comments on: Could Cat Bordhi possibly be wrong?

By: Mary

Mary — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 15:14:51 +0000

You did check the Errata page right?

http://www.catbordhi.com/NP1.html

By: Sue

Sue — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 22:04:03 +0000

I left my copy of New Pathways on the boat in Tahiti (we live on the boat, visit in the US), but I had the opposite problem with the Coriolis socks. Mine were about 3″ too short. I remeasured, did a second check on the gauge (the too-short sock made a great gauge swatch) and tried again. Still too short. I measured the length of the swirled portion and then measured the length from where I wanted the swirl to end at the ankle to where it would begin,. based on my sample. I then did a standard toe-up sock and started the swirl at that point. I kept trying on the sock and started the expansion for the heel when it looked about right. I absolutely hate floppy socks so I took a few stitches out of the sole (no one will see them, and it made for a roomier toe without the floppy arch/ankle bend). The socks owe their inspiration to the book, but aside from the idea of the swirl they were done without a pattern. Confusion over the patterns in this book seems to happen for quite a few people, and flipping back and forth to check on techniques for heel, toe, decrease, increase, etc. just adds to the confusion. I know why the book is organized this way, but it helps the publisher, not the knitter.
Knitting all the way to the ankle and then measuring where the shaping ought to have been isn’t much fun.

By: Jenny Jo

Jenny Jo — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 03:47:14 +0000

I am starting a coriolis right now and am very confused, although it sounds like my confusion may be different from yours. My issue is with the way the instructions say to calculate the toe section length. When I do it, I get 2″. Two inches? That means I would start the arch increases immediately after finishing the toe increases…so I’m like…what?

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By: Kathy

Kathy — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 00:26:01 +0000

Hi Diva, I am working on the baby sock size in the begining of the book. I am glad to hear that the negative ease issue is something to look out for. I am going to look you up in Ravelry as I live in Tucson, AZ. Kathy

By: Marin

Marin — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 22:38:49 +0000

I dove into the Foxglove recently and it looked… wrong. Way too big. And I knitted until I got a good four inches to try it on and it was. I frogged it, figuring I’d come back to it and simply cast on for a smaller sock and see how that went.

It wasn’t until a few days ago that I had a sort of “duh” moment: while reading a random sock pattern, I saw a note that said, in effect, “Don’t freak out if the numbers look wrong. This allows for almost an inch of negative ease because socks should fit snugly, right?”

I believe (I haven’t gone back to double-check that I didn’t dork it all on my own) the Cat Bordhi socks were perfectly set to have zero negative ease. Which is wayyyyy too big for a sock. I know I checked my math several times, and I know I said, “Yep, my foot is 9″ around and my sock is 9″ around. Why isn’t this working?” so I’m pretty sure I missed the negative ease portion of the tutorial or it simply isn’t there.

If that makes you feel any better.