Enjoy a wonderfully simple yet satisfying quick knit with Maxie’s Socks! These socks are knitted from the cuff down, so you can incorporate as many stripes and colors as you like. This pattern works well with both fingering and sport-weight yarn; however, using sport-weight yarn will result in denser socks. If you prefer DK or worsted-weight yarn, you can download the thicker version at no additional cost by simply adding it to your cart (past purchases apply).

Skills required: long tail cast on, magic looping, making decreases, picking up sts, grafting sts

Sizes: 1 (2, 3, 4, 5, 6) to fit
foot circumference of 8 (9, 9½, 10, 10½, 11)“ / 20.5 (23, 24, 25.5, 26.5, 28) cm and
foot length of 8 (9, 9½, 10, 10½, 11)” / 20.5 (23, 24, 25.5, 26.5, 28) cm

The samples in the cover photo are Size 2, modeled on a person with an 8½“ / 21.5 cm foot circumference and a 9¼” / 23.5 cm foot length.

Finished measurements:
A. Foot Circumference: 7½ (8, 8½, 9, 9½, 10)“ / 19 (20.5, 21.5, 23, 24, 25.5) cm
B. Foot length: 8 (9, 9½, 10, 10½, 11)” / 20.5 (23, 24, 25.5, 26.5, 28) cm
C. Leg length: 5 (5, 5½, 5½, 6, 6)“ / 12.5 (12.5, 14, 14, 15, 15) cm

Yarn: Garthenor Snowdonia, fingering weight, 100% organic wool (90/10 Romney/Hebridean), 219 yards / 200 meters per 50 g

We used Moel Hebog as the main yarn and Juniper and Sundew as the contrast colors

Yardage: 220 (260, 315, 370, 425, 500) yards / 200 (240, 290, 340, 390, 455) meters
plus an additional 20-30 yards / 18-27 meters for stripes

Gauge: 30 sts x 46 rounds in stockinette = 4” / 10 cm after wet blocking, unstretched

Needles:

• 32” / 80 cm circular needles in size needed to obtain gauge (recommended size is US 2 /2.75 mm)

• A set of 5 DPNs in same size as circular needles

Notions: Tapestry needle, stitch markers, scrap yarn