Advent Socks
by Schibot Garne - knitting pattern for a mini sock, in German and English.
Knit 24 little mini socks to create a handmade, reusable advent calendar!
ABOUT THIS PATTERN:
The idea of using a hand-dyed Advent calendar to knit one for the next year, which you can hang up and fill, sounded like twice as much fun to me!
During the Advent season, you simply knit a small mini sock every day until you end up with a total of 24 small socks by Christmas. Thanks to a small loop, these can then simply be threaded onto a string and hung up next year! This way, you can conjure up your very own personalised and unique Advent calendar that you can reuse every year.
And now for the highlight: you only need 3-5g to knit a mini sock like this. This means that you can even knit 48 of these socks from one yarny Advent calendar and therefore two DIY calendars! One to keep and one to give away ♥
This pattern describes how to work a mini sock like this from the top down on a set of needles. You can of course get really creative and even use tiny scraps of wool as a contrasting colour for the heel. Just as you like it!
When you purchase this pattern, you will receive a total of two pdf files (German and English), each five DIN A 4 pages long.
I wish you a wonderful and creative Advent season!
SIZE OF THE FINISHED SOCK: about 9,5cm (3.5'') long
TECHNIQUES:
- knitting on DPNs (in the round as well as rows)
- casting on
- knit and purl stitch
- various in- and decreases
DIFFICULTY LEVEL: advanced
YARN: fingering
- for example 24x 10g from a hand-dyed advent calendar
- alternatively 24x 5g sock yarn leftovers
MATERIAL AND NOTIONS:
- 2.5mm (US 1.5) double pointed needles
- optional: crochet hook
- darning needle
- scissors
