Star socks are ideal for beginners to sock knitting. These socks are knitted seamlessly from the top-down. You start with a ribbed cuff, then relax while working the leg in stocking stitch. Then, you make the heel by knitting a rectangular heel flap and work a few rows to turn the heel. Next you pick up stitches along the sides of the heel flap, then knit the gusset and the rest of the foot in stocking stitch. Finally you work a star toe; there’s no Kitchener stitch or grafting involve, so this toe is really simple.

The pattern for Star socks is available to purchase here as a digital pdf download, or as a printed booklet (together with a free Ravelry download code) from the Being Knitterly webstore.

The A4 pattern has 2 pages:

1. Cover. Before You Start: notes, sizing, yarn, tension | gauge and abbreviations.
2. Written instructions.

Pattern details

Sizes
Sock foot circumference: 6.5 7.75, 9 inches | 16.5 19.5, 23 cm.
Foot length (adjustable): 8.75 9.25, 9.75 inches | 22 23.5, 25 cm.
To fit feet with a circumference: 6.75 8, 9 inches | 17.5 20.5, 23 cm.

Yarn
Regia Galaxy (4 ply sock; 75% superwash wool, 25% nylon; 219 yds | 200 m per 50 g ball) in shade 01559 (Jupiter): 2 2, 2 x 50 g balls.

Needles & Accessories
US 2 | 2.75 mm | UK 12 of your preferred type for working small circumferences.
US 3 | 3.00 mm | UK 11 of your preferred type for working small circumferences.
Stitch marker.
Yarn needle.

Gauge | Tension
30 sts and 36 rounds per 4 inches | 10 cm over stranded colourwork stocking stitch using 3.00 mm needles.

Other details

This pattern is available in two versions: there’s one written for those who knit left-handed as well as the standard one for those who knit right-handed.

Most of you knit right-handed, that is, your stitches move from the left to right needle as you knit: choose “knitting right-handed”.

Some of you knit left-handed, that is, your stitches move from the right to left needle as you knit: choose “knitting left-handed”.

If you are a left-handed knitter who knits right-handed, that is your stitches move from the left to right needle, you should choose “knitting right-handed”.

Sample knitted by Nicki Merrall.