Patterns

This toe-up sock pattern uses an afterthought heel: Scrap yarn is used to make an afterthought heel by knitting half the stitches in the round with scrap yarn where the heel should be placed. After the rest of the sock has been knit, the stitches immediately above and below the scrap yarn are picked up on the needles; the scrap yarn is picked out, and the heel is knit on the now- active stitches. If you prefer to knit the socks top down, you can easily reverse the knitting; the afterthought heel is worked the same whether the sock is knit toe-up or top down.

The original Ocean Waves Shawl pattern used a rather unimaginative crocheted border. In updating and re- formatting this pattern, I added a Shark’s Tooth Edging as a border on all three sides. The border evokes white caps dancing along the crests of the larger, undulating waves the ripple out through the symmetric triangles of this classically shaped top-down triangular shawl. Two skeins of Sophistisock are needed for the smaller shawl, and three skeins are needed for the larger shawl. Row-by-row and charts are provided, with all charts appearing at the end of the pattern.

This easy to knit side-to-side baby sweater, with as few seams as possible because I really hate sewing in sleeves. The knitting is very straight forward and Sophistisock yarn works wonderfully.