Cimorene

Getting worsted is actually hard here because we mostly have DK weights for wool and anything bigger is going to be acrylic or cotton. You really can’t beat wool for socks and the nylon wool is so good. Even here, wool socks are more comfy and in Finland they must be so cozy at that gauge.

I remember in the 90s when I’d just learned to knit being able to buy a spool of nylon to strand along with my wool and the specialty sock wools were a new cool thing!

I learned to reinforce heels - like there’s a very dense slipped stitch rib that can be used for the heel and toes that wears better and other ways people do it so the socks are easier to darn later. Those are traditional because hand knit socks were all socks and I guess people got annoyed with having to repair them versus our luxury of hand knit socks now.

Thank you so much for the clear descriptions I am going to try those after I finish the brioche hat now I’m confident I can adapt the gauge. But I am wondering about using the slipped ribbing, hmm.