The Lizard Socks got its name because the yarn and mosaic pattern give an effect reminiscent of lizard skin.

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The socks are designed in mosaic knitting which uses only knit, purl and slip stitches. It’s a very easy way to create a colorwork pattern while only holding one strand of yarn at a time.
The pattern is very easy to memorize.

Lizard Socks have toe-up construction and peasant heel.

To start toe-up sock I use Judy’s Magic Cast-On.
To finish I use Jeny’s Stretchy Bind-Off.

Sizes: S 48 sts (M 56 sts) L 64 sts (XL 72 sts)

Foot circumference: S 18cm/7” (M 20cm/8”) L 23cm/8” (XL 25cm/10”)
Measure around the ball of your foot.
Knitted socks are intended to have a bit of negative ease –it means that your finished sock is going to stretch just a bit on your foot but not as much as the factory made socks. Take your time to get measurements and knit the gauge.

GAUGE:28 sts x 32 rows in PATTERN on a 2 mm (US size 0 / UK size 14) needle = 10 x 10 cm (4” x 4”)

NEEDLES: 2 -3 mm (US size 0 - 3 / UK size 14 - 11) sock needles of your choice: DPNS, short circulars or long circular for Magic Loop (min.100cm/39”) or other size you need to obtain the gauge.
I knit rather loosely and usually take needles a size smaller than recommended by the yarn brand. Probably a lot of you would like to use your prefered (for fingering sock yarn) needle size to obtain the gauge.*

MATERIALS:
60–100 gram /250–420 meters / 260-428 yards in total of any fingering weight / 4 ply sock yarn of your choice will work for this pattern in at least two colors (minimal two colors are needed to get a nice colorwork effect but you can use as many colors as you want to be like).

• sock in size S and foot length 22 cm (8,6); shoe size EU 35-36 (US 5-6 / UK 3-4) was the smallest sock made using this pattern and it took 60 gram/250 meters/260 yards of the yarn in total.