Knitted Sock Patterns: Striped Socks

Size 2 - average 3 years.

Knitted sock patterns Materials -

1 oz. in grey and half oz. in white, Beehive Andalusian Wool.
Four no.15 steel knitting needles.

Using the grey wool, cast on 60 stitches, 20 on each of three needles.

Work 50 rounds in rib of K.2 and P.2.

Taking the white wool, commence the plain knitting - working 3 rounds in white and 3 in grey alternately for 63 plain rounds on this knitted sock patterns.

Using the grey wool, commence the heel as follows: - knit the first 15 of the round on the one needle, slip the last 15 stitches of the round on to the other end of the same needle - these 30 stitches are for the heel.

Divide all the other stitches on to 2 needles and leave them for the instep. On the heel stitches (always slipping the first stitch), P.30, turn, K.29, turn, P.28, turn. K.27, turn.

Continue in this manner until 9 stitches are left at each side of the heel for this knitted sock patterns tutorial (the last row will be P.12); then turn, K.12, lift up the right hand side of the loop just before the 13th stitch and knit the two stitches together, thereby preventing a hole, turn, P.13, lift up the loop just before the 14th stitch and purl the two together on this knitted sock patterns.

Continue in this manner, working one extra stitch on to each row until all the 30 stitches are on one row again (the last row will be a purl row). Knit ack 15 stitches, this completin the heel. Slip the 30 instep stitches on to one needle. Taking a spare needle and continuing in the stripes until the toe is reached, knit the remaining 15 stitches of the heel and knit up 2 stitches at the side of the heel; with a second needle, knit the instep stitches; with a third needle, knit up 2 stitches at the side of the heel and the other 15 heel stitches.

Commencing the shaping for the instep, knit one round plain.

In the next round of this knitted sock patterns tutorial, knit to the last 3 stitches of the first needle, K.2 together, K.1; knit the second needle without shaping; on the third needle, K.1, K.2 together through the back of the loops, knit to the end of the needle. Repeat the last 2 rounds twice on this knitted sock patterns.

Knit 48 more rounds in the stripes without shaping. Then, using the grey wool, commence the toe as follows:- *Knit to the last 3 stitches of the first needle, K.2 together, K.1; on the second needle, K.1. K.2 together through the back of the loops, knit to the last 3 stitches, K.2 together, K.1; on the third needle, K.1, K.2 together through the back of the loops, knit to the end of the needle. Knit 2 rounds without shaping. Repeat from * until only 26 stitches remain in the round, then knit the stitches on the first needle on to the third on this sock patterns.

Either cast off the two needles together, or graft the stitches.