Sweet Chestnut Socks – Enabling Alert
Autumn has well and truly arrived in my corner of the UK. I love the autumn, the colours, the smell, the lack of sun cream and need for knitwear…….
If you are taking part in Socktober and looking for a little bit of a sock challenge can I tempt you with my latest pattern in The Knitter Magazine (issue 89)? These pretties are worked from the cuff down with some cable detail and a little beading. The heel is an afterthought heel, which works beautifully, not interrupting the flow of the Zauberball yarn and it’s gently transitioning colours.
The pattern is written for two sizes, to fit foot circumference 23.5 (25) cm.
Skills:
- Beading with a crochet hook
- Cabling
- Twisted ribbing
- k2tog
- ssk
- yo
- s2kpo
Shopping list:
- Zauberball 4ply sock yarn
- 2.75mm needles (or size to obtain gauge)
- 0.6mm crochet hook
- size 6/0 seed beads
- cable needle
- stitch markers