halfway through

This weekend, I managed to get halfway through the newest Potter book (so far, only Hedwig the Owl and Mad Eye had died; I'm not giving anything else away) and the hedera sock.




As I was going along, I modified the heel, so that also the bottom part of it is "reinforced" with the slipped stitches:


It does not look very neat, to my disappointment. The reason is that yarn, at least in part, I think. Very nasty thing to knit with, indeed.