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Gully Wash Socks (free pattern)

  • Nov. 3rd, 2007 at 8:19 AM
Toe-up socks that form rivulets on your feet
    Designed by: Charisa Martin Cairn | October 2007 
    note: if you downloaded the pattern prior to 14 Nov 2007, please re-download.
    I caught an error, and it has been corrected.
    Click here to download the free sock pattern.

     Gully Wash Sock - toe-up socks that form rivulets on your feet

 
Overview
Please refer to the "Lifestyle Toe Up Socks", a tour guide for building socks that always fit.

Yarn: Blue Moon Fiber Arts
Socks That Rock, Lightweight, 360 yards

Needles/Method: Size 1, US
Using 2 circular needles, socks knit in the round

Gauge: Depends, but about 8-10 stitches to the inch


What you know or will learn using this pattern:

  • A magical cast on
  • Making cables without a cable needle
  • Knitting socks that fit
  • An easier short row heel
  • A stretchy bind-off that will always wear comfortably

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Why Gully wash? Experimenting with cables and this wonderful yarn, the cabling looked just like water rushing through gullies in the streams around where I grew up in the Texas hill country. The colorway that I used only reinforced the visual by being the color of the washed gully.

Comments

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[info]textilejunkie wrote:
Nov. 3rd, 2007 05:40 pm (UTC)
Very nice! I have yarn, I have needles, these are so going into the queue! :) What colorway is that?
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[info]charisa_martin wrote:
Nov. 3rd, 2007 05:49 pm (UTC)
colorway?
I bought the STR yarn at Knit-Purl in Portland, OR (USA) in Jan 2007- at a close out sale. It appears that the color has been discontinued. I think it was "moonstone". They now make a "Blue Moonstone", as well as a couple of other colorways that might work. However! Any sock yarn will work, as gauge is not *terribly* important! The reason I picked the yarn up in the first place was because I could see that it would work well in cables. I suggest that you knit this sock up in a yarn that has no- or very-subtle gradient color. If there is *much* contrast, you'll loose the cable look. I think this would be cool in a "river-runs-through-it" kind of color -- but then you'll have to name yours differently, because they won't be the color of a gullywash! ;)
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[info]charisa_martin wrote:
Nov. 15th, 2007 05:52 am (UTC)
Just noticed that Excel added an extra row to my chart, and I just fixed the pattern and uploaded it. Please re-visit the post and download the corrected pattern.

Thanks!
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[info]novabird wrote:
Nov. 4th, 2007 07:55 am (UTC)
beautiful! i may have a pair of these on my needles sometime soon.
be well, N*
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(Anonymous) wrote:
Nov. 15th, 2007 12:55 pm (UTC)
Yahoo group, or how to get the short row heel instructions
Could you share info on how to join the Yahoo group? Or is there any way to access the short row heel instructions elsewhere? Your sock is just beautiful, thanks for sharing the pattern!
Marty
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[info]charisa_martin wrote:
Nov. 15th, 2007 02:46 pm (UTC)
Re: Yahoo group, or how to get the short row heel instructions
Hi!
The Yahoo group for sock knitting is:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Socknitters

When you join, I highly recommend you choose the daily digest version for your email option, as this list has a large subscriber base and it generates a LOT of mail!

Look in the "files" section, then in the folder titled: "A Short Row Technique- Priscilla" for her short row doc.

That said, her instructions are actually in my "Lifestyle Socks - no swatch needed" guide:
http://charisa-martin.livejournal.com/16895.html




Edited at 2007-11-15 02:54 pm (UTC)
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