Socktober 8

I love the color of these. They are made from sock gradient skeins. Two matching skeins each specifically long enough for a sock. ‘Gradient’ as they were dyed starting with one color at one end of the yarn going to different color at the other. They were knit from the green end to the blue toes and as you can tell by the heel section they matched up very well.

The edging at the cuff end is a ‘picot edging’. You knit a few rows (probably 5 on my socks) then do a row in which you ‘knit two together and then yarn over’ repeating this until you are back to the start which will be the next round(row). The next row and any after you knit. You will use the ‘knit 2 together, yarn over’ as the fold of the cuff. It give it those little ‘points’.

After I’ve done the ‘picot’ edge row I knit the same number of rows as before the picots (5 usually) and then I knit the next row by knitting together one stitch on the needle with one cast-on stitch. so that my top edge is hemmed and no sewing is needed later. To do this you pick up (on your left needle) a stitch from the cast-on row and knit it WITH the next stitch on the needle. You continue this until you have knit around and are back where you started. You SHOULD come out evenly with the number of stitches you had to pick up and the stitches on your needles.

You will still have to bury your cast-on tail of yarn at the cuff and the tail of yarn you end with at the toe, but that is nothing more than you would do with any sock. If it is too fiddly for you (knitting to the cast-on row) simply use what remains of your cast-on tail to sew the cast-on edge to the leg of the sock on the inside.

I love doing the picot edge. It looks ‘fancy’. It is easy. Well, some might think the knitting a row with the cast on row is a pain, but I find it easy enough and I LOVE the finished look.

Easy fancy socks due to using a gradient dyed yarn and a picot edging.