We now offer handy kits of this pattern. All kits include enough yarn to make these lovely socks along with the pattern, a limited edition button badge and a fab project bag to keep it all safe. Happy knitting!
The Truuduse Socks pattern is designed by our friend Aleks Byrd. Click here if you’d like to buy the pattern.
The name comes from an old zigzag mark used in Estonian handicrafts that was used a mark of loyalty and faithfulness. This sock is worked from the cuff down. A twisted stitch pattern called a vikkel in Estonian is used in sock knitting from the Estonian island of Kihnu. The vikkel is worked from the leg down into panels or stripes extending to the heel flap and toe. It features a Kihnu heel construction which creates a comfortably fitting square heel using short rows.
Yarn
John Arbon Textiles Exmoor Sock
4ply weight; 60% Exmoor Blueface, 20% Corriedale, 10% Zwartbles, 10% Nylon; 200m / 219yds per 50g skein.
The kit includes 2 skeins in the colour of your choice. This is enough to make all sizes given.
Finished Measurements
A. Leg length: 6.25” / 16 cm
B. Leg circumference unstretched: 7” (8”) / 18 (20) cm
Leg and foot length are adjustable
Recommended ease: 0 to 1” / 2.5 cm of negative ease
Needles
US 1 / 2.25 mm DPNs or 32” / 80 cm circular needles for magic loop for rib cuff
US 1.5 / 2.5 mm DPNs or 32” / 80 cm circular needles for magic loop for twisted stitch and Stockinette stitch.
Notions
Waste yarn, tapestry needle, 12 stitch markers
Gauge
28 sts x 40 rnds = 4” / 10 cm in stockinette stitch knitted in the rnd, after blocking.
17 sts x 25 rnds = 2”/ 5 cm over cuff vikkel stitch after blocking.
