This is the Mystery sock for the March 2013 Sockdown in the Sock Knitters Anonymus group, i.e. the SKA MOCK.

My attempt to combine flowers and masculine…

This is a very simple sock pattern, based on textured stitches like the ones found on traditional Guersey / Gansey fishermen’s sweaters.

A very simple stranded pattern, could be ideal to use up leftovers, as long as you are not afraid to sew in the ends on the inside…

Having just wrestled with a multi coloured stranded sock, I wanted to design a pattern that just used two colours throughout. It’s a very simple little leaf chart, and in the course of the sock, it will get modified in three different ways: on the heel, it disappears into stripes without decreases, over the instep it decreases centrally, a...

23 September 2012 - UPDATE !!!

My 2012 Sockdown design for April - Literary Inspiration.

Update!

This was named because the pattern was a right little pucker to get right… also because it puckers, obviously.

A leafy concoction that may well count as one of your 5-a-day…

This is the result of several attempts to create a sock pattern that has parts that are knitted in different directions. I like the various sideway patterns that are around, but they tend not to fit too well, as the fabric is less stretchy across, and I needed some sort of allowance for my high instep as well.

This sock was designed for the Nov 2011 Sockdown in the Sock Knitters Anonymus group. Considering what a struggle the initial conception was, and looking at the monster I created, I think it’s only fitting that this sock was heavily inspired by Mary Shelley’s book “Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus”.

Yeah - because the world totally needs another Christmas ornament pattern…

Pattern is now available !!!

The “Love” comes from the hugs & kisses cable, and the “Liquor” in question is Chartreuse, seeing as this was designed especially for the SKA September 2011 challenge. It will of course work equally well in blue (Curacao), brown (Amaretto) or yellow (Limoncello)…

Be gentle, this is my first written pattern… it also has not been tested by anyone but me, so there is a chance directions may make sense to me but nobody else.

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