Flat Feet Fun
I am sure that by now, many of you know what a Flat Feet flat is. For those of you who don’t, I’ll just go into a brief description. A flat is a knitted rectangle with waste yarn at either end. Two rectangles are joined with more waste yarn. Two flats joined = two socks. One flat (two flats joined by waste yarn) is more than enough yarn to knit a pair of socks.
Pictured at the left is the remaining yarn from each of the two flats that were joined and the pair of socks knit from the flat.
The flat is then hand-painted. We sock knitters then unravel the waste yarn, and cast-on from the flat. There is no skein as we know it and we don’t unravel the flat and wind it into a ball, but knit right from the flat.
If you wish to knit two socks at once, then separate the two flats at the mid waste yarn.
If you are a first time Flat Feet knitter, you will see that unraveling can be fun. The frog will have turned into a prince with the kiss of your needles.
I loved knitting my Flat Feet sock. The tug from the flat was just enough to make tensioning the yarn very easy. I also love the grab factor. When I needed to stop knitting, it was so easy to grab the sock in progress and the flat and stuff the whole thing into a bag. My project was so easy to fit into my purse.
My flat was vertical stripes, which created horizontal striping in the sock. The horizontally striped flats will create wider striping. Then there are the freeform flats….who knows what the fabric will be.
Flat Feet are just plain fun!
Filed under: Knitting by cwulster
Another innovative fad that we will all have to try!