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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Sometimes when I’m scrolling through Ravelry a pattern will catch my eye as much because of the name as the look of the design (which is a little hard to see in those little thumbnails sometimes, anyway).

So it was with the Stellify shawl by Paola Albergamo. Stellify means to turn into a star, and the name and the story behind the shawl come from the story of Ariadne. The better known part of her story is that she helped Theseus escape from the Minotaur, but he then abandoned her. What comes after in many stories is that Dionysus found her, fell in love with her and later married her.

When he threw her jeweled crown into the sky, the Corona Borealis constellation was formed.

What does all this have to do with shawl knitting?

The shawl itself looks like it has a scattering of stars on it, as if it, too, has been stellified. The shawl begins with an I-cord tap and is shaped into a triangular shawl with both lateral and central increases. I-cord edging is incorporated into the sides, and the colorwork is done with mosaic knitting, which means this shawl is easier than it looks.

Mosaic knitting has you working with just one color per row, slipping stitches that appear in the other color to make the colorwork visible. Even better for people new to this kind of colorwork, the pattern includes written and charted instructions throughout so it should be easy to follow along.

The pattern comes in two sizes (the larger one is shown here) and calls for two colors of fingering weight yarn. It looks great in black and yellow, but don’t miss the other projects on Ravelry to see other fun and beautiful color options.

You can find the pattern in English and Italian on Ravelry.

[Photo: Paola Albergamo]

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