Evanesco: A spell used to vanish objects, at least in a series of books featuring a boy wizard and his friends. I can’t promise these socks will actually vanish, but they will be much less visible in sneakers or other shoes; perfect for when you don’t want your socks showing.

This sock recipe contains instructions for making a basic toe-up sock, and includes my variation on an afterthought heel with gusset and heel flap.
The construction of the heel fits well even with high insteps, and has the advantage of a super-comfortable heel cup with absolutely no wrap/turn short-row stitches.
There is an optional heel tab that includes a few short rows.
The pattern includes instructions for heavy worsted weight or fingering weight, and details for changing the size for a custom fit.

Gauge:
Heavy Worsted: 5.5 stitches and 8 rows per inch
Fingering: 9 stitches and 11 rows per inch

Techniques:

• Magic Loop
• JMCO (Judy’s Magic Cast-on)
• Left and Right Lifted Increases
• Afterthought Heel
• SSK
• P2tog
• Wrap and Turn

Materials:
* 100g sock yarn (Socks pictured:
Worsted, Novita 7 Brothers; Fingering,
Zauberball Crazy)
* 40” Circular Needle. Worsted, size US
6 (4.0mm) Fingering, size US 1
(2.25mm)

• Darning Needle
• Scrap of waste yarn in a contrasting colour

My test socks used 51g of yarn for fingering, in a man’s size 10.5, and 97g of worsted in a woman’s size 11.