After hoarding sock yarn scraps for months and months, I finally made my first pair of scrappy monster socks. My husband claimed all the black/black stripes yarn in the scraps box, and away I went. I wanted to use striped yarn for the heel, but I wanted a bullseye effect so I tried an afterthought heel for the first time. I made up a sort of whirlpool heel that I'm not happy with - J showed me that the socks keep slipping over his heel, and one heel has one row too many in the center and has a funny little flap at the bottom. After they come out of the wash I planned to take the heels apart and redo.
But after a few wearings, my husband told me the heel stretched out fine and the little flap of extra rows at the very base of the heel had resolved. Apparently he loves wearing his odd socks with suits and deliberately showing them off during the work day!
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