🍵 hollyDear #knitting lazy web: does anyone know of any patterns for socks with thick bottoms? I bought some socks in Scotland that are thick, warm, and squooshy on the bottom and they are my new best friends. I want to make more! Searching on ravelry was not productive, but it's a difficult thing to search for. I can't figure out a way to do it on my own without knitting flat and seaming.
Robyn@holly
I have been pondering this for reinforcing purposes, but haven't got round to doing yet. I came up with adapting Elizabeth Zimmerman's potentially endlessly resoleable sock for finer yarn, (the version I've seen is DK) then working the sole with your thicker cushier yarn (or my tougher one). Little bit would show at heel, and you have to be ok with kitchener stitch.
I also pondered just working the sole stitches with an extra thread held alongside, either leaving x little tail on the inside or maybe using that cool technique i saw recently for knitting gauge samples in the round. But it would bug me if I couldn't estimate the amount of reinforcing thread to use for each "not round" perfectly