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Louise Robert
I love to play with colors and the Carrousel pattern was born to this desire to emphasize our self-striping yarn. This pattern is worked as a spiral with one stripe that runs around leg and foot throughout the work, just like a bandage would be wrapped. The Leg edging, heel and toes are added after the spiral is completed. Due to the particularity of this spiral construction, these socks are a bit less elastic so it is important to verify the size properly. You have to work to your actual leg circumference without stretching your work: negative ease will not fit and positive ease might fall down as you walk.Although it does not show on the pictures, these
socks were photographed in a park of St-Bruno at
minus 20 degrees Celsius during a particularly windy day. Needless
to say that my face wore the same colors as my socks! |
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 photos: Patrick
Bélanger |
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SIZE |
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FINISHED MEASUREMENTS |
Sock circumference: 8.5 [9.5, 10.5] inches |
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MATERIALS Notions |
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GAUGE |
32 sts/46 rows = 4 inches in stockinette stitch |
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PATTERN NOTES |
These socks can be used as “yoga socks” (no heel and toes). A few rows of ribbing on the heel and toes edging will help to avoid rolled edges if you decide to go with this option. Slipped stitches are slipped knitwise on knitted rows and purlwise on purled rows. Pick up and knit: along the slipped-stitch edge of the spiral for right sock, you can refer to Theresa’s tutorial here. Pick up and purl: along the slipped-stitch edge of the spiral for left sock, the technique is slightly different : with yarn in front, insert the working needle from back to front, under both of the V-shaped elongated edge stitch, then wrap the yarn around the tip of the needle as to purl and pull the yarn back through the loops and onto your needle. For leg edging, heel and toes, you must pick up more stitches than there are edge stitches. In order to add these “missing” stitches, you have to add them evenly by using the backward loop cast-on. See Theresa’s tutorial here. KRL: This is a lifted increase. With
the tip of the right needle, lift the right leg of the stitch
below the next stitch on the left needle. Place this loop
on the left needle and knit into it. Grafting: Instructions can be found here. Picot bind off: Instructions can be found here. |
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DIRECTIONS Right sock spiral increase:Using MC, cast on 2 stitches. Work even as set until piece measures 8.5 [9.5, 10.5] inches (this length must correspond to the circumference of your leg around your ankle). Right sock leg spiral: Row 1 [RS] Sl1, k10, sl1, pick
up and knit 1 stitch from the right side
of the cast-on edge and pass the slipped
stitch over. Continue in this manner until you have
worked around the leg 3.5 times: you
will be aligned with the first half of the
spiral, 4 stripes below. If matching row
gauge, the leg will be 6.25 inches at this
point. Work even as set for 4.25[4.75, 5.25] inches. Right sock foot: Continue in this manner until you have worked around 3[3.5, 4] times, or for desired length, leaving 2 inches for toe decrease. Right sock toe decrease: Repeat Rows
1-4 until 3 sts rem. Cuff Hold sock facing the heel opening, with the foot up and the leg down. Using CC, with RS facing, starting in the ‘corner’, pick up and knit 60[64, 68] sts around the heel, working across leg side of opening first, and foot side of opening second. Place a safety pin in the fabric where you started picking up – this will be used later to align the toe. Yoga socks only: knit 3 rows of ribs [k1, p1] and bind off loosely. Ignore the rest of the heel part. Work a short-row heel on the upper half
of the round -- those stitches closest
to the leg -- as follows: Row 15 [RS]: Sl1, k14[16, 18],
ssk, KRL, turn. Yoga socks only: knit 3 rows of ribs [k1, p1] and bind off loosely. Ignore the remainder of the toe section. Decrease round: K1, ssk, k to
3 sts before end of first half of the sock,
k2tog, k2, ssk, k to 3 sts before end of
round, k2tog, k1. Left sock spiral increase: In order to have the spiral on the opposite side, this sock is worked “inside out”. Using MC, cast on 2 stitches. Left sock leg spiral: Row 1 [WS] Sl1, p10, sl1, pick
up and knit 1 stitch from the right side
of the cast-on edge and pass the slipped
stitch over. Continue in this manner until you have worked around the leg 3.5 times: you will be aligned with the first half of the spiral, 4 stripes below. Left sock heel opening: Row 1 [RS]: Sl 1, k11. Work even as set for 4.25[4.75, 5.25] inches. Left sock foot – End of
spiral: Continue in this manner until you have worked around 3[3.5, 4] times, or for desired length, leaving 2 inches for toe decrease. Left sock toe decrease: Repeat Rows 1-4 until 3 sts rem. Turn the sock so that knit side is facing out and work the Cuff, Heel and Toe as per the right sock. |
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| ABOUT THE DESIGNER |
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Louise Robert lives in metropolitan Montreal,
Quebec, where she earned a Bachelor of
Arts in art history. She lives with her husband and her 3 kids,
2 cats and one beloved angora rabbit.
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Pattern & images © 2012 Louise Robert. Contact Louise |
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