Description

Merripog means “happy kiss,” because these socks have just enough of a happy kiss of colorwork to keep things interesting. I designed these socks as I was practicing my twohanded color knitting and wanted to be able to take breaks between the color changes. The cuff starts with a contrast color, adds the main color in a flowery pattern, then transitions to all main color until time to park a line of scrap yarn in place for the afterthought heel. Then the main color carries on until just before the toe decrease, when you play with the two colors a bit more before changing back to all contrast color for the toe. The heel is added in the contrast color at the end--and it’s worked just as the toe is worked. Easy! You’ll need one skein each of two colors (about three times the yardage of main color than contrast color), but you’ll be able to make two pair of Merripog Socks by switching the colors—bonus!

Finished Measurements

8” [20.5 cm] foot circumference

Materials

• Fingering weight sock yarn, approx 300 yds [274.5 m] MC and 100 yds [91.5 m] CC
• US size 2 [2.75 mm] dpn set of 5, two 16” circular needles or one 42” circular needle or size needed to achieve gauge
• US size 1 [2.5 mm] dpn or two 16” circular needles
• Stitch marker
• Yarn needle
• Scrap yarn

Gauge

32 sts & 44 rows= 4” [10 cm] in St st after blocking

Skills Used

Knitting in the round, two-color knitting, afterthought heel, decreases, grafting

Yarn used: Cephalopod Yarns Skinny Bugga Sock Yarn, color Montauk Monster (MC) and Oleander Nymph (CC)

Construction

Worked from the cuff to the toe in the round with afterthought heel.