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Baubles and Candy Canes Sock pattern - Download version

Baubles and Candy Canes Sock pattern - Download version

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The Baubles and Candy Canes Sock features festive stranded colourwork. It is knitted from the cuff down in the round, with a charted leg and diagonal colourwork across the foot. A heel flap, heel turn and gusset shape the heel, and the toe is grafted. The instructions are written for five double-pointed needles.
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Pattern information

Available sizes
1 (finished foot circumference 16.5 cm), 2 (finished foot circumference 20 cm), 3 (finished foot circumference 23.5 cm)
Skill level
Intermediate
Yarn weight
Fingering
Needles
2 mm, 2.5 mm

Fit & measurements

Size order: 1, 2, 3.

Finished foot circumference: 16.5, 20, 23.5 cm. Foot length is adjustable.

Yarn requirements

Fingering-weight sock yarn in two contrasting colours.

Original sample quantities: C1, cuff and colourwork, approximately 60 g; C2, background, approximately 40 g. The sample used one original 100 g / 425 m skein of Qing Fibre Sock in each colour.

Needles & notions

Needles

The pattern is written for a set of five double-pointed needles and can be adapted to your preferred sock-knitting method.

2 mm needles, or size needed for gauge; 2.5 mm needles, or size needed for colourwork gauge.

Notions

Stitch markers; tapestry needle.

Techniques
  • Stranded colourwork (Fair Isle)
  • Knitting in the round
  • Grafting (Kitchener stitch)

Construction

Worked from the cuff down in the round. The charted leg continues into a stranded diagonal foot pattern, with a heel flap, heel turn, gusset shaping and a grafted toe.

Gauge

36 sts × 46 rounds = 10 × 10 cm in single-colour stockinette stitch on the smaller 2 mm needles.