This top-down sock recipe uses two different kinds of ribbing, a short-row heel and the easiest of toes – a star toe. 1x1 ribbing in the cuff provides fine visual detail and a cuff that stays up; switching to 3x1 ribbing for the leg makes it faster to work, but still with good stretch and ‘cling’.

Widdershins is a scarf pattern that uses a biasing, openwork stitch to make a long scarf from a single skein of sock yarn. Periodically, stitches are cast off from one edge, and cast on at the other, working against the flow of the bias fabric. (‘Widdershins’ originally meant a path or course opposite to that taken by the sun). In the name of o...

Wiggle is a thick-and-thin singles yarn, which gives the fabric great texture and, knit on 12mm needles, amazing elasticity.