This is a very special pair of socks that I designed in memory of my dear friend Liz who suddenly passed away in April 2020.

Featuring a picot cuff, Vikkel braid, stranded colourwork, and a non-wrap short row heel this sock has lots of fun elements that Liz would have loved discovering (read more about Liz below)

Size can be adjusted by going up or down a needle size

It is currently available as a kit from my website which contains

50g hand dyed Exmoor Sock yarn (MC)
50g natural grey Exmoor Sock yarn (CC1)
25g hand dyed Exmoor Sock yarn (CC2)
Printed pattern booklet with colour chart
Star stitch marker
Organza drawstring bag
and a whole lot of love and happy memories of a dear friend

Exmoor Sock Yarn is a beautiful blend of 60% superwash Exmoor Blueface / 20% Superwash Falklands Corriedale / 10% Zwartbles / 10% nylon

£3 from each kit sold will be donated to MIND Tyneside & Northumberland

Please note that due to the hand dyed nature of these yarns and my own way of dyeing exact shades will vary between sock sets - this is intentional, we are all different and so very special in our own uniqueness

Liz was brilliant!

Brilliantly clever academically, supremely talented at crafting, a whizz at cryptic crosswords and just the loveliest person to spend time with. Her crochet skills were beyond compare and then in October she decided to teach herself to knit for the first time.

Did she start with a wonky square or garter stitch scarf?

No! Her very first knitting project was a colour-work, top-down sweater knitted in the round! She was brilliant - nothing was too challenging for her to tackle and every new technique was welcomed as a challenge to stretch her skills. Liz was inspirational and a true Locketeer!

Designing this pattern for Liz helped me cope with and process what had happened and everything about the design reflects the friend I knew and loved and will miss so much.

There are technical details that she would have been excited to try - a picot edge, a Latvian braid, a new style of short row heel. The colours are very “Liz” and the colour-work design depicts her innate brilliance in the form of a sparkling star within a trellis to represent the friendship, love and support of the knit groups at Lucy Locket Land and Liz’s other crafting groups.

With loving support we can all sparkle.

I do hope you will enjoy knitting these Brilliant Liz socks - I just wish you could have known the real Brilliant Liz too.