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This sock pattern is written for two circular needles. It can easily be adapted for double points or magic loop. The pattern is for a plain vanilla sock. You can add any design to it you want. I’ve included a chart at the end for different weights of yarn and different sizes of sock. The pattern is written for a 64 stitch sock.

Because I have big feet, I always found myself either running short of yarn on a cuff down sock, or wasting a lot of yarn and making the cuff not as long as I wanted. I wanted to make toe up socks for this reason but didn’t like the short row heels I always found in the patterns. Therefore, on a long drive to North Carolina from my home in Western Pennsylvania, I decided to ‘reverse engineer’ a traditional gusset heel, toe up sock so I could make the foot as big as it needed to be and the cuff as long as the yarn yardage permitted.