SOCK gansey socks

The Gansey is the traditional sweater worn by fishermen around the British Isles. Knitted at a tight gauge to keep the weather out, they are traditionally patterned around the upper body and plainer below, and are the same front and back so that the sweater can be worn either way around. The sweaters are worked in the round, often with a false "seam", a line of purl stitches, worked up the sides.

Aspects of these knitting traditions have been taken and played with to make these Gansey socks. The socks, like the sweaters, are worked in the round using some traditional motifs (and some original ones), with a false-seam of purl stitches at the sides, and they are plain on the feet. Since socks with heels cannot be reversible, the pattern has been reversed such that the back of one sock is the same as the front of the other. Socks are worked toe up, with a flap-and-gusset heel. The motifs are charted.