Designed by: Charisa Martin Cairn | October 2007
note: if you downloaded the pattern prior to 14 Nov 2007, please re-download.
I caught an error, and it has been corrected.
Click here to download the free sock pattern.
Overview
Please refer to the "Lifestyle Toe Up Socks", a tour guide for building socks that always fit.
Yarn: Blue Moon Fiber Arts
Socks That Rock, Lightweight, 360 yards
Needles/Method: Size 1, US
Using 2 circular needles, socks knit in the round
Gauge: Depends, but about 8-10 stitches to the inch
What you know or will learn using this pattern:
- A magical cast on
- Making cables without a cable needle
- Knitting socks that fit
- An easier short row heel
- A stretchy bind-off that will always wear comfortably
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Why Gully wash? Experimenting with cables and this wonderful yarn, the cabling looked just like water rushing through gullies in the streams around where I grew up in the Texas hill country. The colorway that I used only reinforced the visual by being the color of the washed gully.
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