Canobie Cable by Rachel Molenaar

Canobie Cable

Knitting
July 2012
Fingering (14 wpi) ?
28 stitches and 40 rows = 4 inches
in stockinette stitch
US 2 - 2.75 mm
300 yards (274 m)
one size, 8.5" leg circumference
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The sinuous twisted-stitch cables that undulate around the leg and instep of these socks evoke the roller coasters at my favorite family amusement park: Canobie Lake Park. They are top-down socks with a traditional heel-flap and gusset. The cable pattern is unbroken around the leg and continues seamlessly into a ribbed heel and twines over the instep to the toe.

Because of the complex cables, this sock is not easily re-sized by changing the stitch count. Rather, the knitter is advised to go up or down a needle size to achieve a different leg circumference.

Knitters who prefer charts may print pages 2-4; knitters who prefer written directions may print pages 2 and 5-6.