Easy Peasy Zigzag Socks
Julia Riede
Shown here in Colinette Jitterbug, color: Summer Berries
Sizing One size, please go up/down on needle size to adjust leg and foot circumference. Length is adjustable.
Notes
These socks are knit top-down with a short row heel featuring a variant of a simple textured zigzag stitch pattern which extends down the leg and over the foot. The cuff is worked in a 2x2 rib. The heel, bottom of the foot and the toes are worked in stockinette stitch. The Main Chart gives the stitch pattern for the leg and the top of the foot. This pattern uses a standard german heel construction commonly known as double stitch short row heel or Boomerang Heel (some people refer to it as \*the Regia heel version” as it is used in the sock knitting tutorials at the website of Regia. I call it the Kylie Heel - it's a way prettier word for boomerang, and indeed socks worked with this type of heel look just like one). The Kylie Heel uses a special stitch referred to as “double stitch" in this pattern. To make a double stitch, insert needle as if to purl with yarn in front. Slip stitch off the needle, pull working yarn strongly to back, so the slipped st falls to the back and the stitch in the row below is pulled up over the right hand needle. You can of course use a standard short row heel over 30 sts as well. Due to the circular construction of the sock, the only parts that are knit back and forth is the heel. The patterned parts and the toes are knit in the round where every row is a right side row. Therefore,the charts are read from right to left (the same direction as you knit) on every row.
Cuff
CO 60 sts. Divide sts evenly between 4 needles (15 sts on each needle), place marker and join to begin working in the round, being careful not to twist. Round 1: $^{*}\mathbf{k}2$ ， $\mathrm{p}2^{*}$ to end. Repeat this round 9 times more. Leg Work rounds 1-13 of Main Chart 4 times.
Kylie Heel
Using needle 1, knit 15 sts. You now have 60 sts divided on three needles: 30,15,15 sts on needles 1,3 and 4 (needle 2 is not used throughout the heel). Divide the sts on needle 1 into three parts (eventually put markers between the sts): 10,10,10 sts (between markers) on needle 1 Row 1 (WS): mds, k29,turn. Row 2 (RS): mds, k28 turn. Row 3 (WS): mds, k27, turn. (You are working each row until you reach a double stitch worked last row, turn, and work a new double stitch just beneath the last one on this side. The double stitches on each side increase by one each row.) Continue in this manner until you have 10 double stitches on each side, making the last double stitch on a right side row. K29, work row 1 of Main Chart pattern. Next row (RS): k21, turn. Next row (WS): mds, k11, turn. Next row R: mds, kutilyou reach the doule stith, kit theouleand the folwin stitch, turn. Repeat the last row until you have one double stitch at one end and a double stitch and one stitch to knit left at the other side. You just completed a WS row. Turn. Next row (RS): knit the double stitch, k29. Work next row of Main Chart. Divide sts evenly on 4 needles again, starting with needle 1 in the middle of the heel. Foot Row 1: K15, work 30 sts in Main Chart, k15. Repeat this row until foot measures 2 inches less than desired length, then start the toes. Toes Starting at needle 1, k12, k2tog,k1. Needle 2: k1, ssk, k12. Needle 3: k12, k2tog,k1. Needle 4: k1, ssk, k12. (56 sts) Knit 3 rows. \*Needle 1: 1, k11, k2tog,k1. Needle 2: k1, ssk, k11. Needle 3: k11, k2tog,k1. Needle 4: k1, ssk, k11. (52 sts) Knit 2 rows.\* Needle 1: 1, k10, k2tog,k1. Needle 2: k1, ssk, k10. Needle 3: k10, k2tog,k1. Needle 4: k1, ssk, k10. \* Repeat from \* to $^{\ast}4$ times more. (36 sts) Next row: knit until three sts from end of needle, k2tog, k1; k1, ssk, k all sts from the needle; knit until three sts from end of needle, k2tog, k1; k1,ssk, k all sts from the needle. Repeat this row until 2 sts are left on each needle (8 sts total). Break yarn, put through all sts and pull tight. Finishing Weave in ends and block if desired.
