Makoto Socks by Cookie A

Makoto Socks

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Knitting
Fingering (14 wpi) ?
8 stitches and 12 rows = 1 inch
in stockinette stitch
US 1½ - 2.5 mm
S, M, L
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Discontinued. This digital pattern is no longer available online.

The Makoto socks, named after the inventor of the fortune cookie, are a little crazy and unconventional just like the original fortune cookies must have been. A lace pattern forms the shapes of tiled fortune cookies spaced with large holes created by double yarnovers. With increasing and decreasing on every round, the pattern forms a bit of biasing which affects the elasticity of the fabric.

The pattern contains both charted and written directions