Slate Pool Socks

Fast, fun sport-weight sock with: offset cable accents, stripes, short row toes, and extra-deep short row heels. Love cables, but hate counting? As an added bonus, the stripes really help to keep track of your row count. Pattern PDF includes both toe-up and cuff down versions, 10 pages each, print the one you prefer to work from. Features: full written instructions, and the stitch and stripe pattern are both fully written and charted.

Skills For both versions: Knit, purl, knit in the round, slip stitches, cabling without a cable needle (includes brief tutorial), instructions included for W&T short rows (you may substitute another short row method).Toe-up Skills: Cast off, M1 increase, toe-up sock cast on of your choice (“Judy’s Magic Cast On” OR figure-eight cast on, OR Turkish cast on).Cuff-down Skills: Kitchener stitch (includes brief tutorial), K2tog decrease, cuff down sock cast on of your choice (long tail OR twisted German).