Fiesta! Socks for Jeans 2: Warm Wooly Sock Pattern for Teens and Women, Featuring Sweet Tomato Heel and Regia Yarn

Fiesta!

by Deborah Tomasello

Modeled by Solange LaBonne Debbie, from Knit Bin, and I have partnered up to bring you a series of warm, wooly socks to go with jeans. We will release one pattern a month for several months--enough to stock your sock drawer with the perfect socks to go with jeans. This release is Socks for Jeans #2: Fiesta! The pattern features an easy colorwork design, the Sweet Tomato Heel (STH) that allows the colorwork pattern to continue, uninterrupted through the instep, and wonderful yarn from Regia, the sock yarn people. The pattern includes instructions for women's and teens? medium. Knit Bin will be offering the pattern and yarn as a kit, with special pricing. I will be offering the pattern in my Ravelry store. Because the socks will all be stranded, they will have double the wool for extra yummy winter warmth. www.knitbin.com Size: Teens and Women, medium Materials: 1 skein each of Regia 4-ply sock yarn Regia 4-ply 00540 Royal and 01937 Classics Funny Red (230 yds per skein 75% wool and 25% Polyamide) 5 DPNssize #3 tapestry needle Gauge: 32 stitches = 4” on #3 needles Abbreviations: K2TOG= knit 2 stitches together SSK= slip one stitch, then slip the next. Insert left needle into the front loops of the slipped stitches and knit them together from this position

SOCKS: Make Two

I top-down. Teen and Women's info is listed followed by Men's in parenthest NOTE: Float every 2-3 stitches to keep toes from getting caught in floats!

LEG:

With DPNs and Royal, CO 64 sts, 16 sts on each of 4 DPNs. Join to work in round, placing marker and being careful not to twist stitches (if using a circ needle). Knit 12 rounds 2x2 rib. After ribbing, add Classics Funny Red and begin following sock CHART. Continue working appropriate chart through round 48.

HEEL:

My socks feature the Sweet Tomato Heel (STH). You may use the heel of your choice, but I recommend one that does not employ a flap or gussets to allow for an even design flow through the instep. For a tutorial on the STH, see this video: http://tinyurl.com/ Once you understand how to knit the STH, proceed using the STH heel instructions, knitting heel with Royal. Work three wedges on the 32 sts on needles 1 and 4. Work wedges leaving 7 stitch pairs on each side (4 heel sts left unpaired between pairs). Knit according to pattern across the instep stitches between wedges. Follow the chart for the instep stitches (the sts you have on needles 2 and 3). After working the first half of wedge one, work across the instep per round 49 of the chart, the 2nd wedge will use the appropriate part of round 50, and the 3rd wedge will use the appropriate part of round 51. Float, or knit every other stitch, Classics Funny Red down when starting each wedge so that it is placed at the beginning of the instep when you are ready for it. And work second half of wedge pick-ups by alternating colors as seen in pic. See my Youtube tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeryK-gB84M

FOOT:

Working allsts on circular needle or split evenly on DPNs as with leg, 16 sts on each of 4 needles Work chart from rounds 52-98.

TOE:

Using Royal, decrease for toe as follows: Needle 1: K to last 3 sts of NEEDLE 1, SSK, K1 Needle 2: K 1, K2TOG, knit until the last 3 stitches of NEEDLE 3 Needle 3: K to last 3 sts, SSK, K1 Needle 4: K1, K2TOG knit to last 3 sts of NEEDLE 1 Repeat this until there are 7 sts left on each needle. Place sts from needles 4 and 1 onto one needle: 14 sts. Place sts from needles 2 and 3 onto another needle: 14 sts. Graft the remaining stitches together using Kitchener st, and weave in all ends.

FINISHING:

Tie and weave in or trim all yarn ends at beginning and ends of rounds. Wash & block to fit. CoeDeborah @ aol.com