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Super Simple Ankle Socks to Knit

May 31, 2019 by Sarah White

I’ll admit that while I have knit a few pairs of ankle socks or short socks in the past, I never really enjoyed wearing them until this spring.

Looking for more sock patterns to knit? Check these out on Etsy.

They are really nice when you don’t want a big, long sock, but you don’t want to wear your shoes without socks, either.

I also tend to have cold feet so they are a nice choice for wearing around the house in the summer, too.

My favorite short socks pattern might be the one from my Colorwork Knitting book. They’re a nice length but still really quick and easy to knit. I was looking for a similar free pattern to share and the best I could do was the ankle socks pattern put out by Bernat a long time ago and now only available via the Wayback Machine.

If you like short socks that aren’t too short, give this one a try. If you have a favorite pattern for short socks I’d love to hear about it!

Looking for more knitted socks designs and patterns to keep you warm this winter? Check out these knitted sock patterns Etsy. And these Knitting Pattern books on Amazon.

 

 

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Comments

  1. Linda says

    June 10, 2019 at 8:12 am

    Where is the pattern for the ankle sock?

  2. Sarah White says

    June 24, 2019 at 10:10 am

    There’s a link to the pdf here: https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/ankle-socks-knit

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Knit a Hat with a Flock of Chickens

It’s well known (among knitters, anyway) that knitters seem to love chickens as a motif and a subject of our knitting projects. The Emotional Support Chicken and all the other chicken knitting patterns are just the beginning of our devotion to farmyard friends. 

For example, there’s Farmer Dennis’ Chicken Hat. This free pattern from Stacy Black is a simple worsted weight beanie sized for adults and decorate with a couple of little rounds of colorwork fences and a flock of chickens strutting around the body of the hat. 

You don’t need a lot of any of the colors for the chickens, their facial features or the fences, so this is a great project for using little leftover bits from other projects. The main color for the body of the hat is less than a skein using the yarn suggested, so you might just have everything you need in your house to start stitching up this hat right away. 

The colorwork is presented as a chart, with a 16 stitch section that repeats around the body of the hat. All the color changes are shown on the chart but I think it would be easier to knit the whole chicken in the chicken color and add the eye, beak and other features using duplicate stitch when the knitting is done. That way you don’t have to carry those yarns around the whole hat for just a few stitches. 

As the name suggests, the original hat was given to a farmer who shared their eggs, but anyone who raises chickens or just has a thing for the fowl is sure to love this cute hat. It wouldn’t be too difficult for someone new to stranded knitting or reading charts to make, either, so if that’s you, give it a try. 

The pattern is available for free on Ravelry. 

[Photo: Stacy Black]

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