Pattern is available in two sizes: an anklet-height sock with a bobble-border cuff, and a knee-high sock with a plain cuff.

Needle size really what mentioned in the project of these socks!

Yarn Requirements:

• Ankle-high sock uses 125 yards (115m) each of colors A and B, and 50 yards (46m) color C. Yarn is Colinette Cadenza.
• Knee-high sock uses 110 yards (101m) each of colors A-D.

Gauge:

• Ankle-high sock: 22 stitches and 32 rounds = 4” in stockinette stitch in double-knitting
• Knee-high sock: 21 stitches and 32 rounds = 4” in stockinette stitch in double-knitting

Additional information:
The DD explanation should state that when the four stitches are arranged A,A, B,B: then SSK with A, p2tog with B.
For anyone who is wondering about the double knitting; the Doublefun socks are only knit double, but worn ‘single’. Only the cuff for the Mi-Parti remains doubleknit when the socks are worn.
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The text below is what i wrote about the stockings when i sent them to the Think Outside the Sox Contest in January 2009:

All you need is:
curious mind with a will to learn
a couple of balls of different coloured yarn
fascinating and challenging Tubular cast-on
a couple of thousand knit and purl stitches
a couple of dozen k2tog’s and p2tog’s
a couple of hundred turnings of the work
a couple of increased stitches
a couple of dozen short rows
a couple of hundred yarn overs
a couple of moving stitches form needle to needle
numerous counting of rows
2-5 double pointed needles (mainly only two)
and something that I might have forgotten to mention

How can a human mind imagine how the sock will fit, as the sock grows to fullness flat as a pancake and downwards from the cuff… like a stream or a poem…

Someone figured out tubular cast-on,
someone figured out double knitting

I’m happy and I thank the Lord for this gift,

I was allowed to join this group as equal and enjoy this lonely path that no one has perhaps walked before,

on this path that I feel is mine and – this feeling has touched me before.

Join me on this path!
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The challenge in realizing these socks was to keep them as simple and as plain as possible, so that there’s only the essential, and nothing more.

I wanted to pick just these discordant colours, nothing too tame. Pure lambswool might not be too durable but I didn’t let it bother me, these are only model socks.

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