This sock recipe is for a toe-up sock with short row heels and toes. It is made in one-piece and joined using Kitchener stitch and crochet like seam. It can be adapted for many different sizes with many different patterns and colourwork. Just make a gauge swatch and go from there.

This pattern has a ribbed cuff that doesn’t require a ribber bed, although you can, of course, use a ribber if you have one available.

You’ll probably want:

• a standard gauge knitting machine
• Waste yarn
• Rip-cord
• up to 100g 4-ply sock yarn (depending on the size of your socks)
• Crochet hook or latch tool that fits easily in your stitches
• Circular hand knitting needle, or 2 straight needles (used for Kitchener Stitch)
• Tapestry needle

Techniques used:

• Short row toe
• Short row heel
• Figure-8 cast-off
• Kitchener stitch
• Crochet seaming