Carape Erry Pieters-Korteweg
Notes:
These socks are designed based on a pair of slippers I bought on an early morning from an old lady on the streets of Belgrade, while I was walking towards the Danube. It took me some time to figure out how these slippers had been knitted. But with some help of Serbian friends, mothers and aunts in the end I found out. I added a leg and was struggling with the two-coloured cuff and the bind of, as I wanted it to be a Vikkel Braid. The socks are knitted toe up and have a different cast on than usual. The heel used is a so-called afterthought heel or peasant heel. So it's not a really easy sock to kni...
Material:
Needle size 2,5 mm. About 100 grams sock yarn in total. You need two colours and of each colour about 50 grams. A thread of a different colour for the row on the sole of the foot marking the spot for the afterthought heel to be knitted. Needles 2,00 or 2,25mm. to pick up your heel stitches. Knit: 28 st. and 40 rows = 10 x 10 cm. (unblocked) Abbrevations: K= knit P= purl SSK = slip, slip, knit K2TOG= knit 2 st. together Sl= slip Cast on: Cast on 12 St. and knit 12 rows in stockinet.
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Then pick up 12 stitches on the sides. You get a square with 12 stitches on each side. The sock I bought had some kind of enforcement on the toe that is made by picking up stitches alternatively on the left and on the right of your square. This will make long floats on the inside from left to right and back again. This leaves you with 48 stitches. In the next two rows while knitting black increase 18 stitches evenly to 66 stitches.
Foot:
Now start knitting according the charts at the end of this pattern in two colours. There is a separate chart for the sole of the foot and for the instep. Knit some rounds and try the sock on your foot. In the pattern it is easy to increase some more stitches at the beginning and at the end of the instep needle and in the middle around stitch 16,17,18. If you do, increase the same amount of stitches on the sole of the foot according to the stitch pattern for the sole. 1,5 to 2 inches before the end of your foot you knit in stockinet with your scrap yarn over the stitches of the sole of the foot (i.e. half of all your stitches). The length of your foot is measured from the tip of your longest toe to the back of your heel. Put the remains of the scrap yarn in the sock, so they are out of the way. Now start again for the second time at the beginning of the same needle en continue knitting as described below.
Leg:
Now continue knitting in rounds for the leg using the chart for the instep both on the front and on the back of your leg. Knit the leg as long as you like, but its nice if you keep track with the pattern.
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Cuff: When the leg has the desired length, continue in a two-coloured ribbing Pl,Kl for 10 rounds. Then knit a Vikkel Braid (= horizontally-aligned knit stitches) Use your colours like you've knitted them in the two-coloured ribbing. http://www.sunsetcat.com/techniques-and-tutorials/two-color-vikkel-braids/ Binding of is done with again two colours and the super stretchy bind off by Jeny Staiman.http://www.knitty.com/ISSUEfallOq/FEATjssbo.php
Heel:
Now it's time to knit the afterthought heel. This kind of heel is knitted like the toe in a cuff down sock. The most difficult part now is to get your stitches back on your needle. It's easier if you use a needle size smaller than what you're knitting with to pick up the stiches. There are several ways to do this. The heroes amongst us will just take out the thread and then putt he stitches on the needles. Others will prefer to take the scrap yarn out stitch by stitch and putting the stitches on the needles one by one. You will have one needle with 33 stitches and one with 32 stitches. Now divide the stitches over 4 needles like on the picture below. Pick up some extra stitches in the corners in order to avoid holes there, if you feel like it. Remember to do this according the pattern charts for the sole and the instep of the foot!
Round l: Kl, SSK, knit across to the end of needle 1. Needle 2: knit to last 3 st., K2TOG, K1. Continue with needle 3: Kl, SSK, knit across to the end of this needle. Needle 4 knit to last 3 st., K2TOG, K1. Repeat round 1 and 2 while decreasing 4 st. each time until 22 stitches remain. The general rule is to decrease two thirds of your stitches and to close the remaining third with the Kitchenerstitch. ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★ ★ Chart pattern for the instep of the foot and for the leg ★ ★ (generated with Knitting Chart Generator) ★ ★ http://chartgen.orangellous.com/index.php ★
Chart pattern for the sole of the foot (generated with Knitting Chart Generator) http://chartgen.orangellous.com/index.php
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