PAUL SOCKS

OH complains that he cannot get socks with long enough legs in them - knee length as it were.

SO obtained a dark coloured sock yarn - maroon UU hand dyed and set up on 2.5 mm needles.
Based on a swatch and several measurements of leg ankle and foot worked out a simple pattern.

The first sock is a perfect fit but - horror or horrors - not enough for a full length second sock.

What to do?? Knit a second sock as far as the ankle where there were no increases and then ripped bak the first sock (boo hoo) to the same point then shared the remaining yarn between the two, continuing I 1 x 1 rib.

Not as long as I'd like but better than the usual.

Along the way, several knotty problems encountered.
First, the yarn is a nightmare - it splits into 4 + every chance it gets. That means a dropped stitch or picking up stitches along edged or after ripping is a massive chore.

Next, ripping the already made-up sock from the cast-on edge is impossible so a lifeline and cutting an edge stitch was implied with great difficulty.

However, it eventually worked out and I have a template pattern for OH's legs.

Pattern to be added later.