Celebrate your very best friends with the Cat and Dog Socks! This collaborative project between Andrea and Catherine at Gauge Dye Works is inspired by the bestest pets, with sweet and skeptical faces and very accurate paw prints. Fun, variegated colours are paired with simple and satisfying broken rib pattern to make a project that’s hard to stop knitting. Finish it off with colourwork toes that are bound to give you happy feet.

This pattern is the June design for the 2026 Gauge Summer Yarn + Pattern Club. Signups for the kits and KAL are open now through April 24, 2026. Pattern and yarn are exclusive to the kits for a year and will be available individually in 2027.

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Sizes
Finished Foot Circumference:
7.5(8.5, 9.5) in/19(21.5, 24) cm

Yarn
Yarn quantities are approximate.

312(351, 390) yd/285(321, 357) m
fingering weight yarn

Gauge Dye Works 4-ply Sock
(75% superwash Merino wool, 25% nylon; 465 yd/425 m per 100 g skein)

Colourways:
Muddy Paws (brown, grey)
Sun Puddle (orange, brown, grey)
Rainy Walk (green, blue, grey)

Blocked Gauge
34 sts/40 rounds = 4 in/10 cm in Stockinette stitch with smaller needle

34 sts/36 rounds = 4 in/10 cm in stranded colourwork with larger needle

Needles
Use set double pointed needles, long circular needle for magic loop method, or other preferred small circumference knitting method.

Ribbing & single-colour Stockinette Stitch: Suggested Size US 1/2.25 mm needles

Stranded Colourwork:
Suggested Size US 2/2.75 mm needles

Notions
tapestry needle
stitch marker
waste yarn (optional)

Skills
I consider this an intermediate level pattern. Techniques used include working stranded colourwork from charted instructions with shaping in the chart, wrap-and-turn short row shaping, decreasing, and grafting.