Pattern One: Zombie Socks
March 13, 2008
I just sent the pattern to everyone so check your email! Before you start knitting and before you look at these photos I want to remind everyone that you will need to email us when you’re done. We need you to include your name/nickname, your division and a link to your finished photo on the flickr page. Without these things we won’t be able to verify that you have finished so it’s very important to get this right.
Now, on to the post!
In keeping with last year, on the day the patterns are released we will be posting photos (yes, real photos of the entire sock!) here, along with some thoughts from the designer of the sock pattern.
Here they are ~ Zombie Socks ~ in their full glory.
Zombie Socks, knit by the designer Sheryl Ball
Zombie Socks, knit by Carole
Would you like to read about Sheryl and her inspiration for these socks?
I do not think of myself as a creative or artsy person. For example, I did not go to design school – I do not think I could have managed to survive design school. More importantly, I do not think design school could have survived me. I create sock patterns out of another part of my brain. You see I’m a math geek. I am one of those weirdos who always knows whether you increase or decrease your needle size when you are not getting gauge, how to calculate the number of stitches you need so your sweater will fit, and how many stitches you should have on your needle if you cast on 32 and increase every other stitch every other row for 5 rows.
My sock knitting habit began 18 months ago when three women who worked for me announced that they wanted hand knit socks for Xmas that year. At the time my knitting ability consisted of knitting garter stitch scarves. By the time I was done with 4 pairs – one to learn on and one for each of them – I was totally addicted.
Episode 50 of the Lime N Violet podcast, inspired this pattern. A friend of Miss Lime’s has a 9-year old son. When mom told him that Jesus rose from the dead, the boy concluded that Jesus must be a zombie. The drop stitch pattern in this sock reminds me of a dark misty night where there just might be zombies things lurking about. Or one of Miss Lime’s house ghosts. In fact, you can almost see them through the holes in the pattern produced by the drop stitches.
Now, what are you doing here reading? Get knitting! Oh, and good luck.
Carole
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Bridget | March 13, 2008 at 5:30 pm
Gaaggghh! I’m at work, and won’t be able to cast on until lunch! Gaaaggghh
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heather | March 13, 2008 at 5:41 pm
sounds like galatians 2v.20 socks :0)
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marisol cuevas | March 13, 2008 at 6:21 pm
i am at work too, but have been reading pattern to make sure i understand everything and tonite is cast on for me
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Vicki | March 13, 2008 at 6:35 pm
Can someone help me??!!! I probably can’t start until after work this afternoon … but I need to cast on at least 72 stitches … Is there someone who could tell me if this would be the right cast-on number for the stitch pattern? or help me figure out what it would be??? Thanks so much! I’m really excited!!!
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Emmie | March 13, 2008 at 7:43 pm
Typo on row 12 - try this fix
Row 12 (P2, k1, yo, k1, p1, k1, drop next st off needle and unravel 6 rows down, k1)
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Emmie | March 13, 2008 at 7:43 pm
Sorry, I meant this:
Row 12 (P2, k1, yo, k1, p2, k1, drop next st off needle and unravel 6 rows down, k1)
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Nic | March 13, 2008 at 9:26 pm
Talk about failure to plan - I have to go bowling tomorrow night.
We are going to see Franklin Habit (the Panopticon) on Saturday.
What was I thinking!
So far I’m loving the pattern though.
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Mandi Knits » Blog &hellip | March 13, 2008 at 11:21 pm
[...] a zombie pattern. Seriously! The name of the pattern is “Zombie Socks” — check it out. How cool is [...]
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petit_noir | March 14, 2008 at 1:27 am
to Vicki:
the pattern has a 8-stitch-repeat. 72 stitches will be ok for the cuff (9x 8 ). But the foot ist knit half in pattern half in stockinette. Since the upper foot part has 36 stitches (72 divided by 2 = 36 ) and this 36 is not a multiple of 8, you will have to either increase or decrease on the foot, to get a number that works with the pattern.
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Helen | March 14, 2008 at 4:17 am
Or, you could just put 2 purls on either side of the top of the foot — the pattern instructions call for framing the top of the foot with one purl on each side — use two and leave the extra two stitches on the bottom of the foot — it’s in stockinette anyway.
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Kim | April 20, 2008 at 6:55 pm
um. Is this pattern available for the general public? I can’t seem to find the pattern anywhere.
Great sock!