So here’s where we’re at.
Preliminary draft: written.
Calculations: checked, mostly.
This does NOT yet include all details of the heel shaping for the larger size, or the reverse-direction instructions for the (optionally) mirror-image second sock. (Those are next on the list, and I hope to get ‘em done tomorrow morning.)
Still, we’ve just about got a workable pattern here. Certainly something that could be cast on almost immediately, if you’re game for the piecemeal approach.
The plan, such as it is:
Initially, I’m going to distribute via e-mail. I was poking around trying to decide how I wanted to handle the download in relation to site traffic blah blah blah, and I wasn’t finding any solutions that satisfied me, and finally it hit me that I was wasting precious writing time on this picayune admin issue. So I’ve decided the fancy stuff can wait.
So – if you want a crack at the pattern in beta, as it were, e-mail me at tsocktsarina AT tsocktsarina DOT com (replacing what needs to be replaced with what it needs to be replaced with). And I’ll get a preliminary copy out to you ASAP, with updates to follow. The sock is worked toe-up, and I’m pretty sure the pattern as it stands now doesn’t contain anything “iffy” until you get to the heel. I will be knitting that part of Sock #2 no later than Sunday, and will use that opportunity to check my calculations and make corrections to anything I may have screwed up on the heel shaping (you know how it is when you’re SURE you’ve thought of everything…), also to add in anything I’ve left out about Sock #2. Also on Sunday if not sooner, I will pull together the auxiliary files (provisional cast-on, short-row shaping, etc.) into usable form.
‘Long about Monday or so, I hope to have all these loose ends pretty much tied up. With the possible exception of the Veil Stitch tutorial, for which I will probably refer you to the appropriate blog entry until I can pull that part together too.
Or… you can wait until it’s all wrapped up in one nice neat little package. Either way – drop me a note and tell me your druthers, OK?
ETA: The dye-pot must have been running overtime. Jennifer has updated her site and is listing the yarn as available!