These socks were designed to honor my cousin Collin, who took his life in March of 2020. He was a talented artist from a very young age, and would spend hours drawing dinosaurs, comic book characters, and his favorite exotic cars with incredible detail. After high school, he attended Wyotech, an auto mechanic training college with airplane hangars full of cars he could take apart and put back together (a true car lover’s paradise!). This led to an incredible opportunity to work on high-end exotic and luxury cars, where he installed custom performance enhancements (he even developed his own turbo enhancement for Porsche!). Translating his talents and passions into a sock design is a pretty tall order, but my goal was to choose a few elements to work into a simple design that he would have loved: the twisted cables make me think of tire treads, and the diagonal purl stitch panel echoes some of his later graphic design work, plus it makes me think of racing stripes! These socks knit up quickly and you can even work your twisted cables without using a cable needle if you dare.

Finished Sizes
Adult S (M, L)
Finished cuff measures: 7 (8, 9) inches

Yarn
Knit 1 No. Series Yarn, 80% Superwash Merino, 20% Nylon; 400yds/100g. Samples shown in No. 27 and No. 21. One skein required.

Needles
Size 1 (2.25 mm): DPNs or fixed circ in your desired length for magic loop.

Notions
1 stitch marker (m).

Gauge
35 sts and 46 rounds = 4” (10 cm) in stockinette stitch