Materials:

• Lion Brand Lion Wool: 2 balls #113 Scarlet, or colour of your choice
• Crochet hooks sizes G-6 and H-8 (4 and 5 mm) [sizes H-8 and I-9 (5 and 5.5 mm)], or size to obtain gauge
• large-eyed, blunt needle

Gauge: (American Terms)

• For S: 5 single crochet = 1 in. (2.5 cm) with size H-8 (5 mm) hook.
• For M: 4 single crochet = 1 in. (2.5 cm) with size I-9 (5.5 mm) hook.

From Canadian Living:
Joan’s crocheted socks
Designed by Lion Brand Yarn

Excerpted from Lion Brand Yarn: Just Socks, edited by Shannon Okey. Copyright 2007 by Lion Brand Yarn Company. Excerpted with permission from Potter Craft, a division of Random House, Inc.