by Elly Willis

Curio Stitches Designs ©2021 Elspeth Willis, @curio_stitches

This pattern is for personal use only. No part of this pattern may be shared, sold or given to anyone, including all Artwork and Photographs.
 Instructions VANILLA SOCKS

You will need 2.5mm needles either double pointed needles or a long circular needle to
knit socks in the round and fingering weight sock yarn to follow this basic pattern.

Key: K – knit, P – Purl, kfb – knit front and back of stitch,

If you have trouble with techniques used in this pattern, there are a lot of video
tutorials available on You Tube.

Sizes: 4-6 years, 6-10 years, tween (7”), 8”,8.5”,9”

Instruction:
Using Judys Magic Cast On, Cast on 20 stitches over two needles so you have 10 stitches
on each needle.
Knit 1 round.
Directions

Next Round(inc) N1 & N2: *kfb, k to 1 st before end of needle, kfb.

Next Round: knit,
While a good conclusion is an important ingredient

Repeat last 2 rounds until 52(56,60,64,68,72) sts havearticles,

for newspaper been created.
the immediacy of a deadline

environment means that copy editing often takes

the form of deleting everything past an arbitrary

Distribute stitches over 3 needles with 50% for the heel stitches on one needle and 25%
point in the story corresponding to the dictates of

on each of the other two needles.

available space on a page. Therefore, newspaper

reporters are trained to write in inverted pyramid

knit every round until you reach 1 inch less then

style, withyour
all thefull
mostfoot length.
important information in the

first paragraph or two. If the less vital details are

pushed towards the end of the story, then the

Work the short row heel on next page.

potentially destructive impact of draconian copy

editing will be minimized.

Work the Leg:
According to Wikipedia, a news article discusses

Knit every round until leg measures: 10cm,12cm, 12cm,news

current or recent 15cm, 15cm,17cm.
of either general interest (i.e.

Work a *K2,P2* cuff for 12,15, 18,18,18,20daily

rounds
newspapers) or of a specific topic (i.e. political

or trade news magazines, club newsletters, or

Cast off and weave in ends. I hope you enjoy knitting this pattern.
technology news websites).

Quoted references can also be helpful. References to

people can also be made through the written

accounts of interviews and debates.

Curio Stitches Designs ©2021 Elspeth Willis, @curio_stitches

This pattern is for personal use only. No part of this pattern may be shared, sold or given to anyone, including all Artwork and Photographs.
 Short Row Heel Instructions VANILLA SOCKS

This will work for both top down and toe up socks.
Make sure you have HALF your total stitches of the sock to
work on.
Once you have completed a round:
Turn work, now place 2 stitch markers 12 stitches apart,
marking the central 12 stitches.
(For example, on a 64 stitch sock, I would be working my
short row heel over 32 stitches.
So, I would purl 10 stitches, place a marker, purl 12
stitches, place a marker, continue with 1st row)
Purl across to 1st before the end, wrap and turn,
Knit to 1st before the end, wrap and turn,
Repeat the last two rows working the wrap and turn 1 stitch
in each time until you have the 12 stitches in the middle on your needle.
Directions

Now you need to do the reverse, so:

Slip the marker and pick up the wrap and knit it with the
While a good conclusion is an important ingredient

stitch, wrap and turn,

for newspaper articles, the immediacy of a deadline

Work across to the next wrapped stitch, slipping the marker,

environment means that copy editing often takes

and as before pick up the wrap and knitthe it with

form ofthe stitch.
deleting everything past an arbitrary

Continue in this way until all the wrapped

pointstitches have
in the story corresponding to the dictates of

been worked. available space on a page. Therefore, newspaper

The final row will be a right side row, atreporters are trained to write in inverted pyramid

this point, I
style, with all the most important information in the

work the final wrapped stitch and then continue onto the top of the sock to
first paragraph or two. If the less vital details are

complete the round. pushed towards the end of the story, then the

I hope you find this helpful. potentially destructive impact of draconian copy

editing will be minimized.

According to Wikipedia, a news article discusses

current or recent news of either general interest (i.e.

daily newspapers) or of a specific topic (i.e. political

or trade news magazines, club newsletters, or

technology news websites).

Quoted references can also be helpful. References to

people can also be made through the written

accounts of interviews and debates.

Curio Stitches Designs ©2021 Elspeth Willis, @curio_stitches

This pattern is for personal use only. No part of this pattern may be shared, sold or given to anyone, including all Artwork and Photographs.