This booklet contains a pattern for top-down socks knitted on double-pointed needles using fingering weight yarn in five sizes. In addition, it provides many useful hints and tips, techniques and step-by-step processes to help you learn to create basic socks.

A sock project is a fun, portable, and relatively fast project that showcases the abundant choices of sock yarns that you find at local yarn stores, at festivals or on your travels. Once you get the hang of knitting socks, you can add exciting patterns and add embellishments.

I wrote this booklet to accompany a classes that I teach locally in North Carolina. My students gave me a lot of good feedback for this booklet. I hope it helps you get started knitting socks and that you have numerous pairs of lovely socks in your future. At my house, we call them “foot hugs!”