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  4. I get an error message when I click on the free lady bug slipper pattern. I tried a couple of other ways to get it with no success.
    Can you help me?????

  7. Can you please email me the knitting pattern for both the piggy and ladybug slippers.
    Many thanks
    Dee

  8. I love the ladybug slippers, but casn not open the pattern. Can you please email it to me. Thank you very much
    marissa

  9. I love the ladybug and piggy slippers but unable to get the pattern. Can anyone help? Thank you

  11. The patterns aren’t there? either the patterns were removed or something went wrong. Could you please email me the patterns? They look sooooo cute!

  13. If you go on knitting pattern central you can find the pattern for the ladybug slippers. Unfortunately I still haven’t found the pig slippers, which are the ones I really want to make.

  15. pouvez vous me faire parvenir la traductions en francais des chaussons cochons roses.d’avance merci

  16. Could you please e mail me the Lady bug and piggy slipper pattern thy are gorgeous cant get pattern on web does not open page. Kind Regards Cathy

  19. i love the ladybug slippers … my girls would actually wear slippers!
    Could you please email me the pattern?
    Thank you in advance

  30. Hi can you please email the free pattern for Lady Bug and Piggy slippers?
    Regards
    Maretha
    marethabotha123@gmail com

Have you read?

A Whimsical Sock Pattern to Blow Your Mind

You probably know by now if you’re a regular reader (and if you’re not, welcome!) that I love a knitting pattern that’s a little silly or a little different from the usual. Classic patterns are great, too, but sometimes you just want to make something with a bit of whimsy. And when it’s super functional, too, that’s even better.

That’s the case with the Bananen-Socken pattern from Susanne Shahin. These banana socks are one of those patterns no one seems to be totally sure where it came from, and this free pattern on Ravelry explains how she makes them based on how she learned it.

It’s a sock that’s curved and when not on a foot it looks rather like a banana. There’s no heel, and you can use whatever number of stitches you need to make it fit your foot. If you’ve knit enough socks to know how many stitches you like you can just use that number, or the pattern notes include sizing charts to help. (It needs to be multiples of 2 for the ribbing.)

After working a traditional cuff, the body is made with ribbing on the back and welts (or what the pattern calls horizontal ribbing) on the front, which is what gives it the curved shape. There’s no heel, but there is toe shaping, but for the leg and the foot you just keep working the same pattern as long as you like.

I’m a little skeptical about how these socks will feel with ribbing on the bottom of the foot, but I’m definitely intrigued and will probably give them a try. 

The pattern notes are available on Ravelry in English, German, French, Italian and Spanish. If you head to the pattern page you can see a photo of what it looks like on a foot, and it just looks like a normal sock.

Have you ever knit banana socks or do you want to now? I’d love to hear your thoughts!

[Photo: Susanne Shahin]