This top-down sock is written as a 68-stitch sock, which will be a small/medium and a 72-stitch sock, which will be a medium/large depending on yarn characteristics.

“Indeed, just as we named the Stone Age, the Bronze Age, and the Steel Age after the materials that humans could make, we might call the new technological epoch we are entering the Diamond Age,” –Ralph Merkle

Loosely inspired by the high tech book of the same title by Neal Stephenson, I enjoyed the irony of interpreting the Diamond Age concept through the low tech medium of two sticks and some string.