Sugar Skull Sox
This project is an UGH!
Frogged
October 20, 2020
October 22, 2020

Sugar Skull Sox

Project info
Knitting
Feet / LegsSocksMid-calf
self
US 8 1/2 wide shoe
Needles & yarn
US 1½ - 2.5 mm
South West Trading Company TOFUtsies
South West Trading Company TOFUtsies
Notes

This is a slightly larger chart than the one for Skull Mitts. This chart has 24 stitches and 32 rows. Again, please feel free to use the chart.

Although I am doing my socks toe up, you could turn the chart upside down and re-number the rows if you wanted to do top down.

Provisional cast on 36 stitches in black, short row toe, for 72 total stitches. I like to work with the stitches on 3 needles, this will give me 24 stitches or one pattern repeat on each needle. I plan to do the pattern all the way around the foot.

I had to rip back and add stitches to the short row heel to get it on my foot. Even after that, it was tight. I went up to size 2 needles & still tight. Switched to size 3 some better, but the stitches look too loose.

I give up! I am so tired of fighting this yarn. The sock has become tedious.

WARNING: Tofutsies is NOT a good yarn for any type of colorwork, slip-stitch, mosaic or stranded knitting!
It has NO elasticity.

At some time in the future, I may try this pattern again. If I do, I will use a nice plump merino yarn with lots of stretch. But this particular sock & yarn is dead to me.

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This project is an UGH!
Frogged
October 20, 2020
October 22, 2020
About this pattern
Personal pattern (not in Ravelry)
About this yarn
by South West Trading Company
Light Fingering
50% Wool, 25% Soy Silk, 22% Cotton, 3% Other Animal
465 yards / 100 grams

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  • Project created: September 22, 2020
  • Updated: March 17, 2021