Custom Toe Up Socks by Tabetha Hedrick

Skill Level: Intermediate

Finished Measurements

• Foot circumference: 6 ¾ (8, 9 ¼)” / 17 (20.5, 23.5) cm 7″ / 18 cm leg length

Choose the size that is approximately 10% smaller than your actual foot circumference.
Foot length is adjustable

Yarn

• 425 yds / 339 m of fingering-weight yarn, such as Tough Love Sock (a foot circumference over 9″ / 23 cm will likely need a second skein), or
• 350 yds / 320 m of DK-weight yarn, such as Superwash DK ( a foot circumference over 9″ / 23 cm will likely need up to 100 more yds / 92 m), or
• 225 yds / 206 m of worsted-weight yarn, such as Superwash Worsted (a foot circumference over 9″ / 23 cm will likely need up to 100 more yds / 92 m).

Needles & Notions

• Size appropriate for your yarn choice: for magic loop, 32″ / 80 cm circular; for two needles, (2) 24″ / 60 cm circulars; or a set of double-pointed needles (dpn)
• tape measure
• an extra needle for the cast-on
• 3 stitch markers (with one being different to mark BOR)
• yarn needle

Gauge

• custom

The pattern is featured in the “Custom Top Down Socks” course.

If you’ve seen how gorgeous, fun, portable, satisfying socks are for other knitters and want to make them yourself, then this is the course for you! Socks may look complicated, but by the end of this workshop you’ll be able to knit a pair of socks at any gauge and with any yarn.

In this workshop you’ll learn how:

• to measure your feet
• to knit a gauge swatch
• to calculate the numbers to get a perfect-fitting sock
• to cast on and join in the round
• to work a heel flap
• to work a heel turn
• to shape a toe and so much more!

Once you get the sock bug, it never lets go!

This pattern is included with your all-access membership of the School of SweetGeorgia at the SOS Patterns Archive. SweetGeorgia Yarns wants to ensure you have everything you need for your crafting success, so be sure to check out our growing library of fibre-craft tutorials and knitting courses at the school to help bump your skills and discover new techniques!