Long and ribbed and highlighted with a delightful cable, these over-the-knee socks make a perfect showcase for your favorite yarn, from gorgeous solids, playful kettle-dyed and tonal, or a subtle and trendy gradient. With a leg-sized canvases to work with, you can indulge in your wildest color fantasies, and give even more of your body the cozy embrace of handmade socks.

The Fontana Socks are over-the-knee socks worked from the toe up using a Fleegle heel. Cable stitches and increases are worked into a ribbing pattern to make sizing the leg easier.

This pattern is fully charted.

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FINISHED MEASUREMENTS:
Foot circumference: 6-3/4 (7-1/2, 8-1/2)“
20” in length from sole

SUGGESTED YARN:
Knit Picks Stroll Tweed Sock Yarn (65% Superwash Merino Wool, 25% Nylon, 10% Donegal; 231 yards/50g)“ Down Heather 26296, 6 balls.

NEEDLES:
US1 (2.5mm) DPNs or two 24” circular for two circulars technique, or one 40” or longer circular needle for Magic Loop technique, or size to obtain gauge.

NOTIONS:
6 stitch markers; 1 distinctive, 2 removable.
Cable needle
Tapestry needle

GAUGE:
36 sts and 48 rows= 4” in 2x2 ribbing after blocking

Errata: c1 over 2 right P and c1 over 2 left P should not be used. In their stead should be 2 over 2 over 2 RPC worked thus:
Sl 4 to cn, hold to back, k2, sl last 2 sts from cn back to left needle, p2, k2 from cn.