Boston Red Socks

Pattern: toe-up sock pattern from the Sock Wizard
Size: child size 1
Yarn: Plymouth Dreambaby DK, colors white and red, (50% acrylic, 50% nylon), DK weight, 183 yards/50 grams per skein
Amount of yarn: small amount of white, less than 1 skein of red
Needles: Clover Takumi Bamboo dpn size 6
Gauge: 5.5 st per inch
Started: November 23, 2005
Finished: November 28, 2005
Washing Instructions: Machine wash and dry
Recipient: My son

My son begged me to make him “Boston Red Socks”. I found a sock pattern that I could use and some appropriate yarn (soft, not itchy, not expensive). These are the first socks that I have ever made, and of course, I had to pick a not-so traditional way to do it. Socks are more typically made from the leg down. These are made from the toe up, and utilize short rows for the toes and heels. Personally, I think that the short rows make for a nicer sock. I learned two new skills for these socks: provisional cast-on and short rows.

Notes:

• short row toe in white
• switched to red and knit in the round until the length from the start of the toe was 5.75 inches
• short row heel in white
• knit one round of red
• started 2/2 ribbing; decreasing by 2 stitches (one in front, one in back)
• continued in 2/2 ribbing for 3 inches and then bound off
• in retrospect, I would have done 1×1 ribbing. The 2×2 is too loose on my son’s foot

While I was knitting these socks, my son commented that it was going to take a long time to knit the whole uniform. Four year olds… you gotta love ‘em!