Product Description
These socks are inspired by my niece who is an accomplished ballet/modern/jazz dancer and by my own frustrations with limited mobility.
The colourwork is kept to the leg only so once that part is done the rest of the sock will fly off your needles.
Jazz the socks up with the fun i-cord bow on the ballet shoes or leave this off.
Have fun by working the charts as written or switching them around to do the ballet shoes on both front and back, the dancer front and back or one sock with the ballet shoes and one with the dancer.
Wanna Dance Socks by Christie Wareham-Norfolk
What Is Being Made
Wanna Dance socks are a pair of knitted socks designed by Christie Wareham-Norfolk, inspired by her niece's accomplishments as a dancer and by personal experiences with mobility challenges. These socks feature decorative colourwork on the leg portion and can be customized with an optional i-cord bow detail on ballet shoe motifs. The design offers creative flexibility, allowing knitters to arrange the charted patterns in various configurations across both socks.
Design Features and Customization Options
The socks showcase two primary design elements: ballet shoes and a dancer figure. Knitters can work the charts as written or rearrange them for personalized variations, such as placing ballet shoes on both the front and back of the legs, positioning the dancer motif on both sides, or creating asymmetrical socks with one featuring ballet shoes and the other featuring the dancer. An optional i-cord bow can be added to the ballet shoe design for extra visual interest, or omitted entirely depending on preference.
Knitting Techniques and Stitches
This intermediate-level knitting project employs colourwork techniques on the leg section, allowing the main body of the sock to be completed more quickly once the patterned portion is finished. The construction utilizes circular needles for seamless knitting. The design incorporates an i-cord technique for the optional decorative bow detail, which is a fundamental cord-making method in knitting.
Yarn and Materials
Wanna Dance socks are designed to be knitted in fingering weight yarn, requiring approximately 80 grams of main colour (MC) yarn and 20 grams of contrast colour (CC) yarn, with a total yardage of approximately 400 metres to 437 yards per 100 grams. The sample was created using Glen Heaven Knits Titanium Sock 4 ply in Medusa as the main colour, a yarn blend containing 5% superwash merino and 25% nylon with 465 yards per 100-gram skein, paired with Madelinetosh Tosh Sock in Silver Fox as the contrast colour, a 100% merino wool yarn offering 395 yards per 100-gram skein. Knitters will need 2.50mm circular needles measuring 23 centimetres or 9 inches in length.
Difficulty Level
Rated as an intermediate project, Wanna Dance socks are suitable for knitters with foundational skills who are ready to work with colourwork charts and manage sock construction techniques.
```Specifications
| Brand: | Independent Designer |
| Yarn Weight: | Fingering |
| Pages: | 5 |
| Designer: | Christie Wareham-Norfolk |
| Craft: | Knitting |
| Format: | Downloadable PDF |
| Languages: | English |
| Number of Patterns: | 1 |
| Skill Level: | Intermediate |
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