Many thanks to Barbara Walker’s creativity in providing the large spider pattern. Thanks also go out to Chewyknits for her help in getting this pattern together and allowing me to add her chart of the large spider to my pattern. Check out her fabulous sock “The Gardener” for another fun spider sock.

3/18/12 Thank you Wollgeschnatter for translating vital parts of the pattern into German!! I do not speak German, so if you have questions, please contact other knitters who do and have knit this pattern previously.
“Achtung: die deutsche Anleitung ist nur eine Kurzanleitung für die Spinnensocken und setzt Erfahrungen im Stricken von Socken voraus! Sie enthält keine Informationen zur Größenanpassung, zur Ferse, Spitze etc.
Für die Strickschrift zur großen Spinne sowie die Legende ist die englische Version herunterzuladen und auszudrucken!”

Errata added 9/7/09:
Wollgeschnatter has brought it to my attention that there are a couple of little mistakes within the chart:
-In the middle of row 17 there’s a knit stitch missing before and after the “M”s.
-In row 19 there’s a wrong sign (compared to the written instruction there should be the sign for “Left Twist, purl bg” instead of a simple “left twist”). Reading right to left Row 19 of the Spider Chart should start with ”purl 3, Left Twist, purl bg TWICE”