So I had my new skein of sock yarn and decided to wind it in a ball so that it was ready for when I wanted to knit with it, and then decided to just knit a few rounds to see how it knitted up and then before I knew it, I’d gone and got myself half a sock:
In my defence, I can now assure anyone that has the same yarn that it doesn’t pool. 
I love the fine stripes of gold and navy and little patches of olive green and hopefully Mr B won’t consider them to be a bit on the overly-cheerful side.
However, this sock is not going to be just my usual standard, heel flap patten that I do for every plain sock I ever knit. For one thing I’m pretty bored with knitting every mansize sock in exactly the same way and I am also fed up with having to keep a tally of the heel flap rows because I can’t trust myself to count the rows correctly, and live in fear of having socks with lopsided heels. So I decided that I would try a SHORT-ROW HEEL instead.
I have only worked short-row heels once before, on Rose’s tiny Better Than Booties socks. That pattern uses Priscilla Gibson-Roberts’ short-row heel method which I found worked really well and didn’t leave any unsightly holes: something which has often put me off the idea of short-row heels in the past. Her Priscilla’s Dream Socks pattern uses the same heel (and toe) and is available in Favorite Socks which I have (as well as Interweave Knits Fall 2000, which I don’t) and it’s this pattern that I will be following. Once the leg is a little longer, that is. 
