Socks for a Child

Company:  Regia

Yarn: Design Line "Garden Effects" 4ply

Composition: 75% wool, 25% nylon

Colour:  Lupine

Pattern: Socks for a Child

Size: Child
Needles: 2.5mm

Amount used:  34g

Started:  7th October 2017

Finished: 9th October 2017

Cast on 48sts. Join. Work 20 rounds of 2x2 rib (K2, P2, repeat). Then switch to stocking stitch and knit until the sock is 10cm long.

Heel flap: Knit 12 sts, turn, and purl back 24sts, slipping the first stitch. Work 22 rows. (The remaining 24sts will be brought back into play when the gusset is knitted.)

Turn heel: 
1. S1, k16,ssk, k1, turn. 
2. S1, p3, p2tog, p1, turn. 
3. S1, k4, ssk, k1, turn. 
4. S1, p5, p2tog, p1, turn.

Continue in the pattern until all of the stitches have been incorporated, and 18sts are left on the needle.

Gusset: Pick up 12sts from the side of the heel flap. Place marker. Knit across the 24st of the front of the sock. Place marker. Pick up 12sts from the heel flap.

1. Knit to 3sts before the marker, k2tog, k1, move marker from left needle to right. Knit to next marker. k1 ssk, knit.
2. Knit.
Repeat these two rounds until 48sts are on needles.

Knit until the foot measures 14cm. The first stitch marker now marks the new beginning of the round.

Toe shaping: 
1. K1, ssk, k to 3sts before marker k2tog, k1, move marker, k1, ssk, k to 2sts before marker, k1, k2tog.
2. Knit
Repeat these two rounds until there are 16sts remaining. Graft the toe closed.