One day I was really looking at garter stitch and I got delighted by the texture of it! I challenged my self to use it on a sock, instead of reversed Stockinette as I always do. The more uneven texture reminded me of a fog and the contrast to the Stockinette stitch side was very apparent, like night and day, good and bad or the living and the not quite dead.
The dividing cable in the middle runs in front and on the back of the leg separating stockinette stitch from garter stitch like the Tuonela-river separates the living from the dead in Finnish mythology.

The socks are worked as mirror images, the garter stitch is intended to be on the outside, but who am I to tell you how to wear your socks! Ans that’s the beauty of diversity. We are different, like garter and stockinette and the line between is thin and wavering.

SIZE
Child/Woman XXS[XS, S, M, L, XL, XXL]

FINISHED MEASUREMENTS
Leg length from top of heel to top of the cuff: 11 inches/28.5 cm

Leg length from bottom of heel to top of the cuff: 1313.5, 14, 14.25, 14.5, 14.75, 15.25 inches/ 32.7534.5, 35.5, 36, 37, 37.5, 39 cm

Cuff circumference: 7.258, 8.5, 9.5, 10, 10.75, 11.5 inches/ 18.2520, 21.5, 24, 25.5, 27.5, 29 cm

Foot circumference: 5.756.5, 7.25, 7.75, 8.5, 9.25, 10 inches/ 1416.5, 18.5, 19.5, 21.5, 23.5, 25.5 cm

The best fit is achieved with half an inch/1 cm of negative ease in the foot. That is, choose the size that is about half an inch /1 cm smaller than your actual foot measurement.

MATERIALS
Yarn
Novita 7 Veljestä Pohjola 75% wool, 25% nylon; 218 yd/199m per 3.53 oz/100 g skein; color: Ruka; 12, 2 skeins

Yarn Characteristics
The sample shown uses an aran-weight sock yarn, wool blended with nylon. The yarn is tweedy and it has a subtle color hue change from light to dark blue. A great substitute is a semi-solid with long runs of color, or self-striping with subtle color changes.

Recommended needle size
US #6/4mm needles for working small circumferences in the round

Notions
spacer 4 stitch markers
spacer cable needle

GAUGE
22 sts / 28 rounds = 4 inches/10 cm in stockinette stitch

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