WIP Wednesday: Everyday Socks Heel Flap!

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I know it's been a bit since I showed you folks the Everyday Socks.   The pattern isn't mine, it's a free pattern available on Ravelry from designer Erica Lueder. But, I took the socks to the Toronto Business Marketing Forum  (and got called out for knitting during a presentation, but he was cool with it!)
A sock on double-pointed needles, with the heel turn completed. The sock leg is textured, and knit with fingering weight yarn. The yarn is blue and grey with flecks of brown and yellow. There's a stitch marker with a shell charm clipped into the top of the heel. The heel of the sock is resting on a fabric double-pointed needle case.

And, I got to the heel flap!  For some reason, on these socks, I ended up with only 28 sts (rather then 32 sts) on the instep.  I have no idea why.  But I didn't want to unravel the entire sock, so I decided to just add two extra stitches from the gusset on each edge. It's a cheat, but it won't be too noticeable.
The yarn is Nerd Girl Yarns Astral, in the colourway "Pluto," which is 75% Merino, 20% Nylon, and 5% Stellina for a bit of sparkle! Sadly, this particular colour is no longer available, since it was an exclusive dyed up for *Eat.Sleep.Knit in 2016. But the Astral Base is still available from the Nerd Girl Yarns Web Store!  The colour is actually a  bit more blue then the photo here, it's one of those colours that's hard to photograph true-to-life, it seems!

Needles are my *HiyaHiya 2mm dpns.  I like knitting my socks on the smallest needles I can manage, I've even knit on 1.5mm needles but I didn't like those, they were just too thin to be comfortable.  I find the socks wear better on smaller needles, since they're more dense. 

The little *shell-and-purl stitch marker is from *Winemakerssister's Etsy Shop.  I actually got two sets, since I think they're so cute!  And the needle case is a new find from *SewSandySew's Etsy Shop!  I got a couple of them, and they make it -so- much easier to travel with stuff on double-pointed needles!

I'm hoping to finish these socks over the next little while -- these have become my transit knitting, or the knitting I take to public places, so I'll be working on them off and on.   This is sock number two, so it actually won't take super-long to finish!

Well, that's it for this week's WIP Wed, and thanks for reading! 

And, I'd love to see what you're working on -- please, feel free to post links to your projects in the comments, so I can see all the amazing things. And, if you're working on one of my patterns, tag it as #sarahdawnsdesigns so I can find it on Social Media!

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