A Girl's Gotta Knit

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Friday, September 15, 2006

The Pattern!

Okey dokey, here is the pattern for these super cool socks!!! I hope you love them as much as I do!!!

COORDINATING HEEL & TOE,
TOE-UP, AFTER-THOUGHT HEEL,
BASIC SOCK PATTERN by A Swell Yarn Shop

[small-medium] medium-large
Duet Sock Yarn
Coordinating color
Cast on a total of [24]28 stitches with coordinating yarn,
[12]14sts on needle1 & [12]14sts on needle2,
knit 2 rounds before beginning pattern

The Toe
round 1: k
round 2: needle 1: (k1, m1l, knit to last st, m1r, k1) needle2: repeat
Repeat round 1 & 2 until you have [52]56 sts

Main Color
Switch to main color, stockinette in the round
until sock measures 2 ¼” less than the length of your foot.
AT 2 ¼”
round 1: needle1 (k1, m1L, knit to 1 sts remaining, m1R, k1), needle2 (k)
round 2: k
Repeat round 1 & 2 one time [56]60 sts

Marking the after-thought heel
needle1 (k)
needle2 (k) a row using a scrap yarn of the same weight,
*This marks where your after-thought heel will be*
Return sts knit in scrap yarn to left needle,
re-knit the row using the main color.
Continue as usual in stockinette in the round for 2"

Cuff
Still using main color use k2p1 rib pattern
Continue until you are out of main color yarn.

After-thought heel (Coordinating Color)
Remove scrap yarn row and put sts onto needle1 & needle2
Pick up on 1 sts at each end of needle1 & needle2 [56]60 sts
Using coordinating color
round 1: k
round 2: needle1 (ssk, knit to last st, k2tog) needle2 (repeat)
Repeat round 1 & 2 until you have 14sts on each needle [24]28 sts
Kitchner Stitch to close

2 Comments:

At 1:40 PM, Blogger Oiyi said...

Thanks for sharing the pattern! I was drooling over the color Wild for the duet socks.

 
At 3:59 PM, Blogger Chele said...

The socks look gorgeous. What size needles did you use? Please email me smiles6404@aol.com and let me know. Great work!!

Michele in Washington, DC

 

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