Cute-as-a-Button Crochet Sock Trim by Peggy Longshore

Cute-as-a-Button Crochet Sock Trim

Crochet
Thread ?
8 stitches = 1 inch
US 7 - 4.5 mm
1.65 mm
40 - 80 yards (37 - 73 m)
Sock Trim fits sizes 0–12 months (orchid pink); changes for [12–24 months (light pastels), 2–3 years (white) and 3–5 years (maize) are in [ ].
English

Skill Level
Easy

Materials

  • Aunt Lydia’s Classic Crochet size 10 crochet cotton (white: 400 yds; solids: 350 yds; shaded colors: 300 yds per ball): 40 yds #401 orchid pink #949 light pastels, #1 white, #423 maize
  • Size 7/1.65mm steel crochet hook or size needed to obtain gauge
  • Needle for threading buttons
  • Seam sealant
  • Bobby socks size 0–12 months 12–24 months, 2–3 years, 3–5 years
  • Pastel 6mm buttons: 36 (0–12 months) 42 (12–24 months)
  • Pastel 12–15mm buttons: 42 (2–3 years), 42 (3–5 years)

Gauge
Sock Trim, excluding buttons = 7/8 inch wide; 8 sc on Trim = 1 inch