Create a river of schooling fish down the front of your sock!

These socks are worked top-down and feature a heel-flap style heel. The pattern is written in two sizes: Medium (64 stitches) and Large (72 stitches), with gauge information to help you make a set that will fit you. If you are an experienced knitter, it would be possible to take the chart and adapt it to almost any adult size sock.

Instructions are charted and include mirrored image charts as well as charts for both embroidered and beaded fish. Charts are interchangeable. Also included is a mini chart for the fish with directions on how to customize your own river, allowing you the option to place your fish where you want them.

Pattern features 1/1 cables with links to resources that show you how to make these in a very easy method without the use of a cable needle or the risk of dropping a stitch!

Materials:
Needles:
Size US 1/2.25mm needles in sock knitting method of choice (DPNs, magic loop, etc.), or size needed to obtain gauge.

Yarn:
Fingering weight sock yarn in the following colors/quantities (feel free to substitute color as you see fit):
• Blue/water colored yarn; 1 skein (sample pair fitting a US women’s size 8 took 74 grams)
• Orange/fish colored yarn or embroidery thread (used in place of beads for fish, if desired); about 5 yards if you choose to do all of the fish in this method

Beads:
Every fish requires one 8/0 bead in black for every eye, and nineteen 8/0 beads in the color(s) of your choice. Note that many do not like the way beads feel inside of shoes, so if you choose to continue your fish on the instep, you may want to consider embroidering them instead.

Sample shown in pictures was knit using Savannah Sock by Copper Corgi in the colorway ‘Something Blue’.

Many thanks to my test knitters who helped make this pattern possible!:
Zwulli
Aditimayareddy
winteroses