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Lovers Gonna Love Socks – Knitting pattern

€6,50 EUR

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The Lovers Gonna Love Socks are here to celebrate the world’s most wonderful feeling – in all its colourful variety! With many sizes included, even for tiny feet, they are a perfect gift for any loved one. Including yourself, whenever you want to gift yourself some calm hours of knitting and, after your socks are finished, a pair of warm feet.

These mood-lifting socks combine traditional stranded colourwork with a “twist” – that is, knitting into stitches several rounds below. They are worked toe-up, starting with Judy’s Magic Cast-on. For the foot, you are working the heart pattern only on the instep, but you will expand it over the whole leg after the heel flap and gusset. The pattern includes instructions for an optional slip stitch heel to increase the durability of the fabric and enhance the fit. You will finish your socks with a cuff in half-twisted rib, including the option of a contrast-colour edge that will look extra neat if you work the recommended modified Italian bind-off. Either pick one contrast colour for the heart pattern or change colours every pattern round – these socks offer an ideal opportunity to showcase even the tiniest yarn scraps!

Sizes

11 sizes, corresponding to shoe size EU (22/23; 24/25; 26/27; 28–31; 32/33; 34/35) (36/37; 38/39; 40–43; 44/45; 46/47)

Recommended yarn:

Fingering-weight sock yarn in one main colour and one or more contrast colours, e.g. Pascuali Pinta or Woollentwine Ovis Sock

Yarn estimates:

Main colour: approx. (150; 180; 190; 200; 210; 230) (250; 300; 320; 340; 360) m / (165; 195; 210; 220; 230; 250) (275; 330; 350; 370; 395) yds
Contrast colour (hearts and cuff edge): approx. (25; 30; 30; 40; 40; 40) (40; 40; 50; 50; 50) m / (30; 35; 35; 45; 45; 45) (45; 45; 55; 55; 55) yds

Needles and notions needed:

2 mm (US 0) DPNs (5 needles per set) OR circular needles with minimum length of 80 cm (32”) (if you prefer to knit with DPNs, I still recommend using long circular needles for Judy’s Magic Cast-on at the beginning)
stitch markers, tapestry needle, optional: crochet hook