Welcome to the Sock Knitters Anonymous March 2024 Mystery Sock KnitAlong! I am so excited to be here with you, and really hope you decide to join in.

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Welcome to the Sock Knitters Anonymous November 2022 Mystery Sock KnitAlong! I am so excited to be here with you, and really hope you decide to join me. These socks will be knit top-down with a heel flap & short-row heel and use charts to guide you in the knitting of this design. I will be releasing a total of FOUR (4) clues through the mon...

Welcome to the Solid Socks December 2020/Jan 2021 Mystery Sock Knitalong! I am so happy to be back with such a lovely group of people and can’t wait to see all the beautiful socks I know you will produce. These socks will be knit top-down with a heel flap and you’ll be working several different versions of twisted stitches plus one easy special...

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This sock is knit top-down and combines twisted stitches, ribbing and a central cable panel (all charted). This produces a relatively stretchy cabled sock which can be knit for a man’s foot while minimising the worry that many of us have faced in knitting cabled socks: running out of yarn.

Welcome to the Sock Knitters Anonymous March 2020 Mystery Sock KnitAlong! I am so excited to be here with you all, and really hope you decide to join me. These socks will be knit top-down with a heel-flap and gussets and use increases, decreases and twisted stitches to make your self-striping yarn a little more than just stripey. I will be rele...

Welcome to the Solid Socks group’s August/September 2018 Mystery KAL!

I bought myself a Christmas present this past December: a new Japanese stitch dictionary! It is full of new and intriguing patterns, and the minute I saw this particular one, I knew it had to be turned into a pair of socks. The combination of the lacework and the gorgeous rich colour of the yarn I was working with reminded me of the velvet curt...

This sock is knit from the cuff down using charted stitch patterns. A combination of increases, decreases and some very simple, cable-less twisted stiches are all that are used to make a really classy-looking mens’ sock. You can create a lacier, more feminine version of the sock if you work a Yarn Over (YO) instead of the Lifted Increases in th...

Up until now, every sock I have designed was done to meet a set of criteria – either a challenge in one of the many different forums I frequent on Ravelry, or a request for a sock club design. This design is different - this is my first ever “just because” design. I was flipping through my stitch dictionaries and came across a pattern that “spo...

This pattern has been designed as a part of tbe 2016 Canadian Crazy Train competition which starts on January 1st, 2016. As a result, this design is currently only available to participants in the competition.

This sock is worked top-­down and combines ribbing, twisted stitches and a bit of lace in an all-­over leg pattern. The ribbing used in the pattern is slightly different with each size, making them each a bit individual in appearance. It also compensates very nicely for the tightening effect twisted stitches usually have on a knitted fabric, so...

This sock design will be exclusive to the 2015 Crazy Train event starting January 1, 2015 by the Canadian Crazy Train group on Ravelry until the competition is over; after that, it will be available for sale in my Ravelry store (in March 2015).

Fawkes Sawkes is a classic top-down design using a combination of cables and lace to create what I think (!) look like fireworks. Instructions are written for ladies’ size small, medium and large, which, when working to a gauge of 8.5 sts/inch, correspond to a foot width of 19 cm/7 ½”, 21 cm/8 ¼” and 23 cm/ 9” respectively.

Cables and twisted stitches start at the cuff and work their way down through the foot to produce a pattern reminiscent of iron scrollwork.

This mystery sock was designed for the Solid Socks group August/September 2013 Mystery KAL and was knit, starting on August 1st, over a period of 4 weeks.

This top-down sock design was released as the April pattern for the Barking Dog Yarns 2013 Sock Club. Now that one year has passed, I am making this design available to all Ravellers.

These colourwork gloves were designed for use in the outdoors on those days where mitts are just a bit too warm. The design incorporates just a bit of lace at the cuff and vikkel braids for interest, making this a quick, fun project for the advanced beginner/intermediate knitter who is looking to expand on their colourwork skills.

This simple toe-up sock was designed for a beginning sock knitter who has knit one or two “vanilla” socks already and who is looking for something a bit more challenging. Knits and purls are the only stitches used to create textured diamonds in a pattern that is suitable for both men and women.

Designed in honour of Queen Elizabeth’s Diamond Jubilee celebration, this sock is knit top down and consists of a simple lace pattern that swirls down around the leg and continues down the foot, creating a feminine sock that will look its best in a solid or semi-solid yarn.

This pattern was part of the Barking Dog Yarns Sock Club 2012 and was released for the June 2012 shipment. The one-year exclusivity of the pattern has now expired.

The inspiration for this sock was the yarn – a wonderfully squooshy, gorgeously pink MCN yarn dyed by Laura of Handwerks. The colourway is Azalea, and since my garden here in the English Lake District is full of this shrub, it seemed the perfect theme for this design.

This sock was designed for the February 2012 Mystery KAL in the SolidSocks group. Clues were originally released on Feb 1st, 8th, 15th and 22nd 2012, but the version available now for download contains all four clues as the mystery has been revealed.

This is a top-down sock designed to meet the criteria for the annual “Textured Knit” challenge of the popular Sock Knitters Anonymous group on Ravelry. An easy-to-memorise pattern of knits and purls makes this mirrored sock suitable for beginning sock knitters looking for a bit more of a challenge than “Vanilla” socks.

This pattern is for a sock that is knit cuff-down and that includes both lace and cables in the design. The lace reminds me of the intricate stonework in many of the cathedrals I’ve seen here in France, and the construction of the foot is such that the panel on the top of the foot comes to a very graceful peak, reminiscent of the church spires....

This sock was designed for my husband, an avid mountain biker, and is thus written for Men’s sizes Small, Medium and Large. Of course ladies can knit it too - just adjust the sizing accordingly!

Please note that I have changed the name of this pattern to VRILLE. No changes to the design though!

This sock is knit from the cuff down using a charted stitch pattern adapted from a Japanese stitch dictionary. The lace panels create a slight pull on the cables in between them, which reminds me of a summer breeze on the fields that are found here in green, green Normandy. The cables run from the cuff all the way down through the heel and are ...

UPDATE JUNE 24 2010 (Joyeux St Jean Baptiste!) My lovely Test Knitters have finished with this pattern and I have updated it significantly. Please make sure that you download the new version!