from the designer: “I often wanted to play around with stranded knitting with hand-painted yarns but didn’t want to embark on a big complicated project that I might not be happy with in the end. While wandering around the internet I came across a stranded pattern from the book “Norwegian Knitting Designs” shown on a knitter’s blog and was inspired. With a little tweaking, I had a unique pattern that would be fabulous on a pair of socks!

“These socks are easy to make and provide a fun and easy way to play with colors and even use up left-over sock yarn. Fun and festive socks for dancing!”

SIZE
Women’s Foot: narrow (medium) width

FINISHED MEASUREMENTS
Foot circumference: 7.5 (8.5) inches

MATERIALS
Sleeping Dragon Sock Yarn (100% merino wool; 440 yd per 100g skein) (You will have leftovers of the contrast color yarn.)

• (MC) Color: Purple Night; 1 skein

• (CC) Color: Tequila Sun; 1 skein

• 1 set of five US #1/2.25 mm double-point needles

• Safety pin or split ring marker

• Tapestry needle