Yesterday I nearly finished the cuff of the sock I want to sell to Knitty when I realized that no Real Designer would say "reduce stitches until the thing fits your ankle". Bad enough that you can't multiply your guage by the inches around your ankle...the sock would fall down! You want to stretch your swatch a bit and use that guage.
Anyway, I needed to get my 120 stitch cuff down to 60 stitches. K2 tog would take care of it, but I wanted to do it in two rows so I made my best guess and went on. Bad move. Time for a trip to Frogville. I had messed up not only the second row of decreases, but the first.
So, lying awake and counting on my fingers I figured to get rid of 30 stitches take 3 into 12 (I dropped the zeros for now) to get 4. Get rid of one stitch in each group of 4. K2, K2tog and 12 stitches become 9. It...could...work!!!
Now for the second row of decreases. 3 into 9 is three. Lose one stitch in each group. K1, K2tog. Yes! Now I can go to Frogville and not get lost in traffic.
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