The design for this socks was inspired by a picture of a pair of cheap, machine-made (!) socks with vinyl lettering that my best friend sent me. She demanded I created a knitting pattern for them. I saw the phrase and automatically came up with 3 more phrases I would want my socks to say! Off I went to my design notebook and this design was born. The idea is that you make the right-foot sock with the phrase “If you can read this” and then choose a phrase for the left-foot sock. But, if you want to put a different phrase for the right sock, you can totally do that! Included are a dozen phrases for you to choose from and I will update the pattern with any others I can think of. If you can think of a short phrase, email me and I’ll make up a chart for it!

Included phrases:

• If you can read this
• Fuck off I’m busy
• Ay coño! go away
• Leave me the hell alone
• Pass me a beer
• Pass me the chips
• Bring me some vodka
• Bring me some wine
• You are too f’ing close
• Give me a foot rub
• Fuck off I’m readin
• Fuck off I’m knittin

MATERIALS
Yarn: Dragonfly Fibers Damsel (sport-weight), 2 skeins (1 of each color), 335 yds./115 g, 100% superwash merino, colorways used in sample: Dragon Wagon (MC) and Black is Black (CC). ~~ OR ~~ Dragonfly Fibers Djinni (fingering weight), 2 skeins (1 of each color), 420 yds./113 g, 80% superwash merino, 10% cashmere, and 10% nylon, colorways used in sample: Birch (MC) and Jocelyn (CC)
Needles: Sport-weight socks: US 2 (2.75mm) AND US 3 (3.25mm) double-pointed needles
Fingering weight socks: US 1.5 (2.5mm) AND US 2 (2.75mm) double-pointed needles
Feel free to use a 32” or 40” circular and the Magic Loop method instead
Gauge: Sport-weight socks: 7 stitches and 9 rows in st st = 1 inch on smaller needles
Fingering weight socks: 9 stitches and 11 rows in st st = 1 inch on smaller needles
Notions: Stitch markers; yarn needle.

NOTES
• Please read through the whole pattern before starting so you are familiar with how the layout works.
• Socks are worked from the toe up with a reverse flap heel. Don’t be intimidated! Just follow each step carefully as you go. You’ve got this!!!
• Instructions for two weights of yarn are provided: sport and fingering weights. The sport-weight sock are constructed with 56 stitches and the fingering weight socks with 64 stitches.