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Traffic Island Socks
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 RedScot 2009 
 
Traffic Island Socks
by RedScot
These socks came into being after Ispent an afternoon with my noseburied in several volumes of stitchdictionaries. I’d been looking for asimple pattern that would morph wellinto being knit in the round,challenging enough to keep my fingersbusy, but my head angst-free;something to keep my brain fromexploding with too-long hours spent oncomplicated and concentration-draining(although very satisfying) travelling-cably, gazillion-Round-repeatly, tear-your-hair-out-in-bunches, tricksy sockpatterns that I was currently workingon... Knitting sorbet, if you will... Thechevron and feather pattern I foundhad lots of potential, and after an initialfew rounds, I realised that it had a lotin common with the famous ‘Jaywalker’ pattern so I knew it would be pretty to knit up and would be fast andbrain-‘splody free. After some tweaking, frogging and a little more tweaking, I arrived with some Traffic IslandSocks.Why
Traffic Island 
? Well, with the wider ‘fixed’ bars running up and down the socks, with the added lace holes(and after the initial street reference), I was reminded of a computer game that came out yonks ago called ‘Frogger’. A game where you had to guide a frog over 2 sets of highways then 2 sets of waterways to get tofreedom, using the traffic islands in between as breathing places, avoiding cars, lorries, snakes, alligators andsubmerging turtles...It seemed apt...
Gauge
: 32 sts / 48 Rounds (st st) = 4 inches
Needles
: Set of 5 dpns size 2.5mm (US 1½)
Size
(approx): Ladies small (ankle 7”/8”), medium (ankle 9”/10”)and large (ankle 11”/12”).
Yarn
: Yarning Yenta 4-ply Self-Striping Yarn in
Red Fraggle
 colourway. (75% Superwash Merino Wool, 25% Nylon.) Or anyfingering weight yarn. If you want to use
light 
fingering weight,I’d suggest going up a pattern size...
Note
: This pattern also works well in different weight yarns. Forthe second purple/pink sock I used Angels & Elephants 5-ply UKsport weight (US
heavy 
fingering weight) Bluefaced Leicester SockYarn in
Berries
colourway, using size 2.75mm (US 2) dpns and thesmallest pattern size.
Traffic Island Stitch Pattern
:Round 1: KnitRound 2: *K1, yo, k5 (k6, k7), k2tog, ssk, k5 (k6, k7), yo, k1,repeat from *
 
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Traffic Island Socks
© 
 
 RedScot 2009 
 
Cuff and Leg
Cast-on 64 (64, 72), stitches onto 1 dpn then spread them evenly over 4 dpns – 16 stitches for each needle.Join in round, being careful not to twist the stitches and work k2 p2 rib for 1 to 1½
inches.After the last Round of the cuff, shift one stitch onwards to the next needle, so you have each needle beginningand ending with a knit stitch. This centres the pattern and means that each dpn doesn’t finish with a tricksy yo.NO Set-up Round for SMALLContinue with Traffic Islands Stitch pattern for 6 inches, or to the leg length you prefer,
ending after workinground 2.
 Set-up Round for MEDIUM: *K1, yo, k14, yo, k1 (18 stitches per ndl, 72 stitches overall.)Continue with Traffic Islands stitch pattern for 6 inches, or to the leg length you prefer,
ending after workinground 2.
 Set-up Round for LARGE: *K1, yo, k16, yo, k1 (20 stitches per ndl, 80 stitches overall.)Continue with Traffic Islands Stitch pattern for 6 inches, or to the leg length you prefer,
ending after workinground 2.
 
Heel flap
K16 (18, 20) sts on ndl no.1, turnSl1, p31 (35, 39), turnThen, work the following 4 rows back and forth, turningafter every row.Row 1: Sl1,
k1tbl
* repeat to end of row, ending in a
k1tbl
.
 
Row 2: Sl1, purl to end of row.Row 3: Sl1, *sl1,
k1tbl
repeat from * to last st,
k1tbl
.Row 4: Sl1, purl to end or row.Repeat these 4 rows 7 (7, 8) more times.
Turn heel
 Row 1: Sl1, k17 (19, 21), ssk, k1, turn.Row 2: Sl1, p5, p2tog, p1, turn.Row 3: Sl1, k6, ssk, k1, turn.Row 4: Sl1, p7, p2tog, p1, turn.Row 5: Sl1, k8, ssk, k1, turn.Row 6: Sl1, p9, p2tog, p1, turn.Continue working one more stitch per row until all stitcheshave been worked.
Gusset
Sl1 then knit across half the heel sts with ndl no.4.Knit remaining heel stitches with needle no.1, then with the same needle pick up 16 (16, 18) stitches along theedge of the heel-flap, plus an extra stitch or two at the corners to prevent holes.Knit Round 1 of the Traffic Island stitch pattern with ndl nos.2 & 3. (All knit sts.)Pick up the remaining heel flap stitches and the first half of the heel with ndl no.4.The centre of the heel marks the beginning of the round. Continue with the following rounds:Round 1: (Decrease row.) Using ndl no.1, work to 3 sts from the end of the ndl, k2tog, k1. Work the instep sts inthe established pattern (this will be round 2 of the Traffic Island Stitch pattern) on ndl nos.2 & 3 and at thebeginning of ndl no.4, k1, ssk, knit to end.Round 2: Knit all sts. (This includes the knit round of the pattern across the instep on ndl nos.2 & 3.)Repeat these 2 rounds until there are 16 (18, 20) sts each on ndl nos. 1 & 4.
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