The Knitting Fiend

No surprise, I’m swatching chevrons. After all, I said I’m thinking of knitting a chevron sock.

Here’s how I knit the chevron shown:

Note: L1A means “Lift one After”. L1B means “Lift one Before”. Both are increases, and are described here.

Ok. That’s how I knit this chevron. But there are zillions of ways to knit chevrons. What’s the key? Work single increases near the edges, and a double decrease near the center. You’ll form a single chevron that dips at the double decrease. Pretty easy, huh?

After knitting the swatch, I needed to calculate a sock with in the gauge I want to use. Calculating involves some math because the chevrons affect the effective stitch gauge. That’s why the stockinette portion of my swatch and the chevron portions were knit over a different number of stitches but came out approximately the same width.

Yeah, I did the math to estimate the correct relationship between the number of stitches to match the widths.

What can I say? I find math is less frustrating than ripping. Naturally, I also wrote chevron sock calculator which is on status “use at home only”.

Now it’s time to cast on!