Jaywalker sock

Leaving the world of the "sadly blogless" with this post. I set up this blog a month or two ago and did the "this is my first post" and deleted it. The harlot is supposed to be in this area soon and I hope to see her and gracious, if I should be pictured, with a sock, of course, I would hate to be described as "sadly blogless".

So let's start this blog with a sock, a pair of socks, that is. These are my jaywalkers. The pattern is from magknits. The yarn is Cherry Tree Hill Foxy Lady. 100% merino. The yardage is generous, rated at 420 yds/4 oz. I am a yarn weigher; my skein weighed 4 1/8 oz (116 grams). I was sweating it as I knitted and ended up with the smallest amount I've ever had left from a pair o' socks, 16 grams. I knitted on size 0 dpns because of the 76 cast-on. My usual cast-on is abut 56. I knitted this sock top-down, as per the pattern, as I usually do. I did an eye of the partridge heel flap:
















And "my" toe:
It's a new double decrease "stitch" I've invented. I've used it so far for toes and afterthought heels and the jaywalker double decrease and raglan decreases (I'll get a pic of the sweater and post about it another day.) If you've seen this double decrease written up elsewhere, and if it has a name, I'd love to know about it.

Basically, it is a ssk followed by a k2tog where the resulting stitch from the ssk goes back on the left needle and is one of the 2 stitches in the k2tog.

Other departure from the pattern, as written: I decreased the sole of the foot 2 more stitches than specified. And I decreased the pattern at the top of the foot before going into the toe by keeping the decreases but losing the increases for a few rows until the top of the foot stitches matched the sole of the foot stitches.

I like the pattern but I have to be careful and ease it on (and ease it off). dh likes the pattern too but he's a pull the top of the sock guy so he's not getting any jaywalkers.