A sock pattern designed in honor of a dear friend, Captain Robert Etheridge, recently retired after more than three decades of service as a dentist in the United States Navy. When I saw how the pattern spirals up the legs of the socks, I was reminded of a classic black-and-white movie, “Captain January”, and of a very young Buddy Ebsen dancing up the spiraling stairway of a lighthouse with a very little Shirley Temple.

Size:
Ladies’ Medium/Men’s Small (Ladies’ Large/Men’s Medium)

Gauge:
8 stitches per inch over stockinet stitch

Materials:
Your choice of knitting needles as needed to obtain the correct gauge
100gm sock yarn
Socks shown knit were knit two at a time on two 2.25mm circular needles using Patons Kroy Sock in color 54046 Flagstone.