A toe-up sock pattern with a ribbed Strong heel designed by Brigid Cherry.

This pattern was designed for Super Sock Scarefest 2020. It will be available for purchase in November.

It is a toe-up sock pattern is inspired by the eldritch horror film The Lighthouse (Robert Eggers, 2019), and the tentacle and mermaid imagery that is seen in several sequences. The design features a star toe to represent an octopus’s eight tentacles, and a ribbed Strong heel suggests the lighthouse rising above the island. The front of the sock is adorned with a pattern inspired by mermaid tail scales (and if you look closely they are like tiny cephalopod suckers), and on the back the ribbing of the heel evolves into a cable design evoking entangled tentacles. A small Bavarian-inspired twisted cable in the centre of the cuff ribbing is included as a nod to the light at the top of the lighthouse.

Instructions are given for three sizes according to foot circumference - 18.5 centimetres / 7.25 inches (small),
21 centimetres / 8.25 inches (medium), 23.5 centimetres / 9.25 inches (large).

Requires a 400m skein of 4 ply/fingering weight sock yarn. Any suitable sock yarn may be used. Solid, semi-solid, tonal or speckled yarn without too much variation colours are recommended. The sample sock pictured (size L) uses Rusty Ferret Doll Yarn in the shade Costal Dreams.

Pattern contains both charts and full written instructions for the textural and cable patterns.

Pattern is also available in a low vision accessible format following the Ravelry requirements (22 and 24 pt san serif font, black text throughout, no italics, all written directions, chart not required but is appended at the end of the document).

This pattern has been test knit.