**Updated 2022**
I wrote this knitting pattern around Christmas time, but it was decided that it would go in our special bumper edition of The Knitter Issue 100. The socks are knitted in Coopknits Socks Yeah! which comes in 10 awesome colours and I love them all equally.
Using Judy’s Magic Cast On, the pattern is knitted toe-up, with a 4-row lace repeat worked across the instep. After you have turned the heel you get to mix things up a bit and knit some cables up the leg. This makes it a fun sock that doesn’t get monotonous – and it obliterates second sock syndrome as the foot section knits up quite quickly.
Errata from the version in The Knitter
In Chart A, the cable in row 1 should show the same as the cable in row 3, and they should both be worked as thus: slip next st to cn and hold at front of work, K1, then K1 from cn. (This has been corrected on the most recent PDF)
SIZES
To Fit Foot Circumference
S (M: L)
19.5 (22: 26)cm
7.5 (8.75: 10.25)in
Actual Foot Circumference
S (M: L)
151/2 (17: 20)cm
6 (6.75: 7.75)in
YARN
Coop Knits Socks Yeah! (75% superwash merino, 25% nylon; 50g/212m/231yds)
2 x 50g skeins of Ammolite
NEEDLES
A set of 2.25mm (UK 13/US 1) double pointed needles (DPNs) or circular needles, 80cm long if using Magic Loop method
NOTIONS
2 stitch markers
TENSION
36 sts and 53 rounds to 10x10cm (4x4in) over st st using 2.25mm (UK 13/US 1) needles.
Instep Chart measures 4cm from centre of wrap3 to centre of next wrap3
Love this design!!! Really an incredible mixture of cables and lace <3
Thank you! 🙂
I’m really enjoying your patten it is so pretty but I don’t have a lot of experience and the wrap 3 on the instep chart has me foxed. So far google & YouTube ( my knitting tutors) haven’t come up with a sensible answer. The plan is to bravely press on with a best guess and perhaps have a different sock! If you could explain it or point to a good tutorial that would be awesome though.
Hi Kirst
I’m glad you like the pattern! So when you get to that stitch, looking at the next 3 sts on the left needle, insert the right hand needle into the third of these sts and lift it up and over the first 2 and off the needle. This gives a wrap around the next two stitches. Then K1 into the first stitch, make a yarn over, then K1 into the second stitch.
I hope that’s a bit clearer!
Faye