5S Socks by verybusymonkey

5S Socks

Knitting
July 2016
Fingering (14 wpi) ?
8 stitches and 11 rows = 1 inch
in stockinette stitch, with smaller needles
US 1½ - 2.5 mm
US 2½ - 3.0 mm
300 - 400 yards (274 - 366 m)
64, 72, 80 stitches
English
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The 5S’s stand for: Super Simple Structured Slouchy Socks. These socks came about when a friend of mine requested “slouchy socks” as a thank you present for helping me out with some craziness earlier this year. I only recently got around to working up these socks for her, and when I did I knew I wanted something a bit more structured than just oversized socks that slouch down because of bagginess. As a result, I designed this “structured” slouchy socks which use a combination of ruched stitchwork and increased needle size to create socks that, as my friend says, are “live-in” socks. :) This is a pattern that works great with solid or semi-solid yarns but also those crazy sock yarns we all have lying around but don’t know what to do with. :)

eBook includes both the sock and mitt patterns.

ERRATA: Heel flap instructions should read:

Begin working in heel flap as follows: RS: SL 1, k1, 16 18, 20 times total WS: SL 1, P 31 35, 39 stitches