Free Sole socks (Toe up)

For avid sock knitters, a new construction that makes posssible stranded socks with plain soles and socks with different yarns on the soles, insteps and tops.  But its greatest advantage comes later, when the sock has developed a hole.  Any part of the sole or heel can be easily removed and reknit.

The socks begin with a two part toe (pick up shaping on chain technique), continue up the instep in pattern (two handed backwards technique), then work the sole, attaching as you go and shaping a gusset (strip joining technique).  Finally turn the heel, pattern it, join the front and knit up the leg.  All this in three hours, making a sock large enough to store quarters in in your car.

Anna Zilboorg