Kansas

Description

Sunflowers were the popular suggestion for Kansas, followed by the Flint Hills, farm life, and the Wizard of Oz. These socks are worked flat instep to the top of the foot bend, then in the round through the cuff. The sole is added last and is worked in the round.

Skill Level: Advanced

Sizes: Women’s Sizes 5-6½ (7-8½, 9-10½, 11+)

Finished Measurements: Circumference—7 (7½, 8, 8¾)” / 17.8 (19.1, 20.3, 22.2)cm

Gauge: 30 sts x 40 rows = 4” / 10cm square in stockinette stitch worked flat 

Materials:
Fingering weight yarn
MC (green)—225 (250, 278, 306) yds / 206 (229, 254, 279)m
CC1(brown)—11 (12, 13, 14) yds / 10 (11, 12, 13)m
CC2 and CC3 (yellow and orange)—21 (24, 26, 29) / 19 (22, 24, 26)m

Sample used AT Haynes House Bare Feet Sock in the Six Million Dollar colorway for MC, Cascade Heritage in the colorway for CC1, Foot Notes by Fiber Optics in the Rubber Ducky colorway for CC2, Koigu Painters Palette Premium Merino in the Orange colorway for CC3

Needles:
Size US 1 (2.25 mm), or size needed for gauge, straight, circular, or double pointed needles. A 16” / 40cm circular needle in gauge size is recommended for the sole. I used a 32” circular needle using the Magic Loop method in lieu of the 16” needle.

Notions: Yarn needle, 8 removable stitch markers, small crochet hook and waste yarn for provisional cast on

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