This is a special frankensock, developed over seven years. Frankensocks are socks made of leftover yarns from previous sock projects. This one resembles collaged scraps taken from Mary Shelley’s Daemon himself. The cuff could represent a hat or his hair. Below the cuff are represented fragments of his body and clothes, rearranged in patchwork. The lower section of patchwork represents the neck, with the Daemon’s name-stamp on the back. Below the neck is his collar, with picot holes under it, so you can thread a ribbon to represent his cravat. Below the collar you can see a section of his stocking. The heel and foot of the frankensock represent the Daemon’s buckle shoe.

The pattern is written for 4 x dpns, but an experienced knitter could substitute 2 x circular needles.

Required skills are intarsia, fairisle, lace-knitting, seaming, chain stitch and duplicate stitch embroidery. Although this would be easy (although time-consuming) for an experienced knitter with the above skills, it is not recommended for the beginner. Beading is optional.

Requirements

• Yarn: 125g/535m/585yd of mixed scraps of any 4 ply yarns, incl. some plain contrasting ones.
• Needles: 4 dpns. Metric: size 2mm for small; 2-25 - 2.5mm for medium; 2.75mm for large. UK and Canadian: size 14 (small); size 13 (med); size 12 (large) US: size 0 (small); size 1-2 (med); size 2 (large)
• Notions: Stitch markers, row counter, (0.75mm crochet hook if beads are used)
• Beads (optional): 72 size 6/0 Matsuno seed beads for cuff; 72 for collar, 4 for ring.
• Buttons: 4 shirt buttons approx 1cm/3/8in; 3 overcoat buttons approx 1.5cm/5/8in to 2.5cm/1in. Buttons can be substituted with beads, crochet flowers, etc.
• A bracelet charm of any design (including fob-watch!) to attach to the embroidered watch chain.
• Ribbon: Up to 137cm/54in chiffon ribbon for cravat; or use plaited/plied yarn, crochet flower etc.

Gauge

• Small size: 9.5 sts per inch (38 sts per 4in) on 2mm needles
• Medium size: 8.5 sts per inch (34 sts per 4in) on 2.25 - 2.5mm needles
• Large size: 7 sts per inch (28 sts per 4in) on 2.75mm needles

This is a fully-written, 17-page pattern with 10 charts.