This is my take on a braid cable, which I’m calling Kirsten after that American Girl doll who had the two long braids, which I used to braid and re-braid over and over. That practice is what really made me good at doing two French braids while standing up on school buses. It was my favorite hairstyle for a long time as a kid.

This pattern has 64 stitches around. It is toe up with a short row heel. Most of the sock is 2x2 rib, and the cable pattern travels around the sock. It would be pretty easy to add or decrease the stitches as a result, if necessary for sizing. The two socks are mirror images of each other.

This sock pattern has 64 stitches around on both the leg and the foot; the cable pattern is one long pattern done once on the leg (both back and front) and once on the foot. The heel is a flap construction. The right and left socks are identical. I have written the pattern using terminology for two circulars or magic loop techniques; the cable ...