Easy Boot Sock Knitting Pattern

In the post about ribbing knitting patterns yesterday, there was a pattern for a pair of socks that used ribbing everywhere — on the leg and all the way down the foot on both the top and bottom of the foot.

While that makes a super stretchy and clingy sock, walking on ribbing isn’t always the comfortable. It’s also a little bulkier than straight stockinette and might not fit as well in a shoe.

There’s always the option to do ribbing down the full length of the leg but then stop and do stockinette for the foot portion of the sock.

That’s the approach taken on these classic boot socks, which look a lot like hiking socks you might have purchased before you could knit your own.

They use a contrasting yarn for the top of the cuff, heel and toe, but of course you can work them all in one color or use a self-striping yarn if you’d rather.

The pattern is sized for a medium-sized woman’s foot. It’s available from Darling Jadore on Etsy.

[Photo: Darling Jadore.]

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I’ve been enjoying knit amigurumi animal patterns lately (see also: this adorable knit pigeon) and of course being a knitter I love llamas.

So when I saw this little llama pattern I knew I had to share it.

The appropriately named Llama patter from Annie Ahn calls for fingering weight yarn, and it uses two colors for the body and three for the little blanket. The pompom can be made to match or in another color. All of these parts take tiny amounts of yarn so you can use whatever scraps you have left over from socks or other projects and change colors whenever you need to.

It might also be fun to use some mohair or other fuzzy or textured yarn on this one to give your llama a different look. In all the project uses between 100 and 150 yards, or 91-137 m, of yarn and the llama comes out about 10 cm/4 inches tall.

The body of the llama is worked in one piece, so this project is suited to intermediate knitters or those who have comfort working in the round and with all those little pieces.

This one is made to be small so you can carry it around with you (it would be super cute on a keychain or as a zipper pull) but I think it would be a lot of fun to knit this in larger yarn, too, to make a bigger llama. You could even make a whole family in different sizes just by using different weights of yarn and corresponding needles.

The details are so cute, from the shaggy hair to its little accessories, but you could make it plain or change it up by knitting a tiny scarf or even working a little fair isle pattern on the legs or body. So many fun possibilities!

The pattern is available on Ravelry in English and Korean.

[Photo: Annie Ahn]

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