I love to try out different knitting techniques and I found it quite amazing how easy vertical stranding is to work, but what a unique look can be created with it. With vertical stranding, it is easy to create an eye-catching feature for colorful background yarns that tend to overrule complicated stitch patterns and so look best in plain stockinette stitch.

The idea for High Voltage and for using vertical stranding to create arrows came actually from the color of a yarn in my stash, which is so bold yellow that it reminded me of the high voltage warning signs. Unlike the sign, I worked the arrows using two contrast colors, in reversed order for the left and right sock. But possibilities are endless. Each arrow could be worked in a different color or why not make a colorful arrow using another yarn for each strand?

Size: Women’s Small, Medium and Large

Finished Measurements
Leg Circumference: 7 (8, 9) inches / 18 (20.5, 23) cm
Leg length: adjustable; sample as shown has leg 6.5 inches/16.5 cm long
Foot length: adjustable, but to complete the arrow the foot should be a minimum of 7.5 (8, 8.5) inches/ 18.75 (20, 21.25) cm long

Yarn:
Fingering weight yarn; 100g as main colour, 2 mini skeins of 10g each with the same yardage used as contrast colour 1 and 2.
Please note: I used for these socks yarn sets with 100g of speckled yarn (MC) and two matching mini skeins of 10g each (CC1 and CC2) dyed especially for this project, available from SpinningFates’ Etsy store.

Notions: 3 stitch markers, cable needle, yarn needle