Jeweled Steps - Sidestream by Cat Bordhi

Jeweled Steps - Sidestream

Knitting
July 2007
Fingering (14 wpi) ?
32 stitches = 4 inches
US 1½ - 2.5 mm
midfoot 7-9 inches
English

New Pathways for Sock Knitters, which I published in 2007, is by far my most ambitious and comprehensive sock book. It contains 8 unique architectures, each one introduced with a quick little baby or toddler sock, followed by a collection of adult designs, and a Master pattern so that you can literally knit an infinite number of variations on each architecture.

Hundreds of designers have used these architectures as a leaping-off point for their own innovations, with the Riverbed, Upstream, and Cedar architectures appearing most often. This was my hope—that the new fields I plowed would become gardens in the minds and hands of others, including you!

This digital version of the book insures that it can remain a resource for knitters and designers forever.

This elegant sock, which really shows off hand-painted colorways, is an example of Sidestream architecture, a toe-up method with the increases organized pie-shaped section on just one side of the foot.