Product Description
I love a pattern that gives you options to customize your project, a special twist to make the piece your own. That was my goal with this sock design. These socks are designed to be completely reversible! Worn either with the purlside lace and knitside toes and heels, or with the knitside lace and purlside toes and heels. Do you want to know a secret? They are worked without purling a single stitch below the cuff! They are worked inside out till the toe then flipped to work the toe in stockinette.
Materials: Pattern calls for fingering weight yarn, and size US 1/2.25 mm & 2/2.75 mm needles.
Gauge: 16 sts/2" 16 sts/5 cm, in the smaller size needles.
Sample knitted in Suri Sock base in Lilac colorway, by LGF Suris.
Pressed Flowers Socks by Fox and Folk
What is Being Made
Pressed Flowers Socks is a downloadable knitting pattern for hand-knitted socks designed by Fox and Folk. This project creates fitted socks available in four sizes: Small (US sizes 5-6), Medium (US sizes 7-8), Medium/Large (US sizes 9-10), and Large (US sizes 10-12). The pattern is suitable for knitters with intermediate skill levels and produces socks with a distinctive aesthetic where the right side of the finished garment is created from the purl side during construction.
Craft and Techniques
Pressed Flowers Socks is a knitting project that employs fundamental sock construction techniques. The pattern utilizes the small needle method, which is standard for creating fitted hosiery. Knitters work from the cuff down, building the sock structure systematically. The design incorporates increases and decreases to shape the sock to the foot, and the pattern uses directional stitching to create the finished aesthetic.
Key techniques employed include working in the round using double-pointed needles or long circular needles, which allows for seamless construction. The pattern requires understanding of gauge and proper tension to achieve the correct fit across multiple sizes. Marker placement is used throughout to track pattern repeats and shaping points.
Stitches Used
The Pressed Flowers Socks pattern uses essential knitting stitches and abbreviations including:
- Knit (K) and Purl (P) stitches as the foundational elements
- Yarn Over (YO) for creating decorative openwork or lace elements
- Knit Two Together (K2tog) for decreasing stitches
- Slip, Slip, Knit (SSK) for left-leaning decreases
- Stockinette stitch as the primary fabric structure, achieving a gauge of 16 stitches over 2 inches (5 cm) when blocked
Materials
The pattern requires sock weight yarn in a 4-ply weight, with yardage requirements ranging from 320 to 395 yards (292 to 361 meters) depending on the selected size. Fox and Folk suggests LGF Suris Sock Base as the recommended yarn, which comes in 400-yard skeins, providing ample yardage for any size option.
Needles required include US 1/2.25 mm and US 2/2.75 mm double-pointed needles (DPNs) or long circular needles, or whatever needle size is necessary to obtain proper gauge. The pattern accommodates different needle preferences, allowing knitters to choose between traditional DPNs or modern long circular needles for their preferred working method.
```Specifications
| Brand: | Independent Designer |
| Yarn Weight: | 4 Ply |
| Pages: | 0 |
| Designer: | Fox and Folk |
| Craft: | Knitting |
| Format: | Downloadable PDF |
| Languages: | English |
| Number of Patterns: | 1 |
| Skill Level: | Intermediate |
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