{"id":380,"date":"2013-04-24T06:00:27","date_gmt":"2013-04-24T06:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trundlebug.co.uk\/blog\/?p=380"},"modified":"2013-04-23T21:19:06","modified_gmt":"2013-04-23T21:19:06","slug":"knitting-and-crochet-blog-week-day-3-infographic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trundlebug.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/04\/24\/knitting-and-crochet-blog-week-day-3-infographic\/","title":{"rendered":"Knitting and Crochet Blog Week Day 3 – Infographic"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome to day 3 in the Fourth Annual Knitting and Crochet Blog Week.<\/a> I’m knitting for house monkey – the thinking knitters.<\/p>\n

\"Kniting<\/a><\/p>\n

Today ( search 4KCBWDAY3 to find other participants), the brief is:<\/p>\n

Make your own infographic […] to convey any element of your craft(s). It can be just for fun or a thoroughly researched presentation of an idea\/finding.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

When knitting a sock, do you ever wonder how far until you are half way? (If you don’t, then bear with me).<\/p>\n

Consider a sock…<\/p>\n

My grand plan for today was a way to calculate your progress for any sock. I’m still working on the spreadsheet for the general case, but I’m ready to present my findings for a specific case.<\/p>\n

There are surprisingly few variables in a standard top-down sock. I chose a 68 stitch sock, 12 rows of ribbing, 5 and a half inches of leg at a row gauge of 12 rows to the inch. A heel flap of 38 rows on half the stitches, a heel turn using Cookie A’s formula then gusset decreases at two stitches every other row. A total foot length of 9 inches, including a toe with 4 decreases every other round, moving to every round for the last few rows. End with a graft over 16 stitches.<\/p>\n

How many stitches are there in the sock? 14,329. (I counted slipped stitches and decreases as single stitches). Have a click through the infographic to see your progress after each stage. The second one shows when you can truly say you are a quarter, half or three quarters of the way through.
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