This pattern (along with most of my earlier work) was retired in the summer of 2022. However, it may be available for a few days once or twice a year. Read on for details!

In the summer of 2022, I realized that maintaining a back catalog of hundreds of patterns was kind of overwhelming. I couldn’t do it and still release new things. So I took my old patterns down so I could keep doing new work.

Since then, a handful of my favorites have come back, and lovely new things have come out. But the vast majority of the old patterns are retired and will no longer be generally available.

However, enough folks have asked about some old favorites that I’m planning to make many of the retired patterns available for a few days once or twice a year (most likely in late spring and then again in the fall around Thanksgiving).

• If you see the buy buttons on this page, you’ve caught it on one of the days it’s available, and you’re welcome to grab it!
• If you don’t see the buy buttons on this page, then it’s not currently available.
• If you want to hear when the retired patterns will be available, subscribe to the mailing list or patreon, or keep an eye on my instagram.

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Ribbing, stockinette, and the occasional increase or decrease…that’s all that’s going on here. No cables, no lace, no fancy business with extra colors or complicated stitches or anything else that’s going to seem just the tiniest bit overwhelming after a long day. Just ribbing, stockinette, and increases/decreases.

And really, once you have the pattern set up, mostly you just knit your knits and purl your purls and cruise along mellow as can be.

Now, you do get to do a slightly fancy bit of business where you make that band of gorgeous patterning go dashing across your foot. But again, it all happens with just a few carefully placed increases and decreases.

Though given how impressive they look, I absolutely won’t blow your cover if you want to let everyone think they’re hard. It’s good to let folks be impressed with the things you can do!

They’re written in three sizes (56, 64, 72, and 80 stitch cast ons), and you should feel free to adjust your gauge a bit to fine tune the fit of the sock. Just be sure that you’re working at a gauge that gives you a sturdy sock fabric with your chosen yarn!

I recommend working at something around 7, 8, or 9 stitches per inch, and I’ve included a table to help you figure out what gauge you’ll want to use for the size you need. With that range of sizes and gauges, the socks will fit a foot (measured around the ball of the foot) between 6.75 and 12.5 inches (with lots of points in between).

These are perfect for you if:

• You want to do something fun with your next gusset
• You love mirrored socks

They’re not for you if:

• You don’t like charts (the pattern uses charts)
• You hate swatching (you need to swatch to check your needle size)