Highland Tartan
design:
Erna de Groot,
ernadegroot@gmail.com.
This pattern is free but please do not spread it. It's available in my Ravelry store,
https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/sources/erna-de-groots-ravelry-store
If you have questions or would like to have the charts in stitchfiddle please contact me,
ernadegroot@gmail.com.
As I said, the pattern is free. If you would like to make a donation, all my profit goes to a
school for girls in India: https://orissazalleven.nl/ (NL26 TRIO 019 83 97 259 for Stg
ORISSA ZAL LEVEN, te Houten, citing: donation HooglandHandwerk).
Or you can donate to the Red Cross.
Highland Tartan
The socks are knitted from the cuff down.
To accurately follow the pattern, some experience with sock-knitting is necessary!
Gauge:
32 st. and 50 rows in the pattern 10*10 cm (blocked)
Used yarn:
4-plu sock wool in the colors:
A: red
B: drak red/maroon
C: green
D: dark green
E: yellow
off course, other colors are also possible!
Abrevations:
ssk: Insert your left needle through the front of the 2
slipped stitches. wrap your yarn around the right needle
(it's in behind) and pull the loop through both of the
slipped stitches, knitting them together. Alternative: slip 1
stitch knitwise, knit 1, pass slipped stitch over stitch.
P2tog: purl 2 together
k2tog: knit 2 together
BOR: beginnign of round (marker)
sm: slip marker
pm: place marker
These socks are knitted with te "intarsia in the roud" method. There are multiple youtube
video's how to do this. The knitting is back and front, so you knit one row and purl the
other.
The solid stripes are knitted in the round as normal.
The vertical stripes are crochet on. You can do that when the knitting is finished but it's
easyer to do when the toe isn't closed.
TIps:
* use separate bobbins for each color. For A, B and C you use 3 bobbins each.
Color A with about 15 meter per bobbin, B and C with about 7.5 meter (per sock, size
40/41).
* for the crochet lines you wil need threads from about 2 meter per stripe (for a sock with a
total of 12 blocks, 4 on the leg and 8 on the foot).
* learn to weave the ends in while you go. I used the "weavin' Stephen" technique, wich
also is on youtube.Otherwise you have to weave in 130 ends. Per sock.
* When you put away your knitting: mark where you are! It's very easy to loose your way in
intarsia-in-the-round knitting with 6 bobbins.
Cuff and leg
Cast on 60 st. with yarn D and join in the round.
Knit 2 rounds. Break color D and go on with color A. Make 14 rounds ribbing (k1, p1).
Follow the chart for the LEG. You can make the leg as long as you want.
Heel
First knit the heelflap:
Break the thread and slip the previous 15 st. back (or:
turn,slip 15 st. purlwise, turn)
Go on with yarn D.
row 1: Knit 2 st, increas 1, knit 28 st (total 31 st.)Turn.
row 2: slip 1 st. *purl 1, knit 1*, repeat *-*. End with 1 purl.
row 3: slip1, knit to end
repeat row 2 and 3 10x, so in total the heel flap is 24 rows.
row 25: slip 1, knit 1, knit 2 together, knit to end.
Now make the turn of the heel:
Turn. purl 17 st, p2tog, purl 1. There are 10 st. left on the needle. Turn.
Slip 1 stitch, knit 5, ssk, knit 1. There are also 10 st. left on the needle here.
**
Turn, slip 1, purl until 1 st. before the “gap”. Purl the stitches on both sides of the gap
together, purl 1.
Turn, slip 1, knit until 1 st. before the “gap”. Ssk the stitches on both sides of the gap, knit
1.
repeat the rows from ** 5x, there are now 18 st. on the needle. You’ve ended with a knit
row and there are no stitches left.
***
This is a good moment to finish the leg, weave in al the ends.
Crochet the vertical stripes. Some of them will finish at the heelflap. Others will continue on
the foot, put a pin or stitchmarker in the last stitch and leave about 1.5 meter of yarn (I
made little balls and put these in the leg)
***
Foot:
Slip back 9 stitches. Now you are again at the "seam", this will be in the middle under the
foot.
Go on with the pattern for the foot.
Knit 9 st. (in color C), pick up and knit 13 stitches along the side of the heelflap and make 1
extra stitch on de edge (total of 14 st.). Use the colors in the chart.
Knit the 30 stitches you left earlyer. Make 1 stitch on the edge and pick up 13 st. along the
other side of the heelflap. Knit the last 9 st. from the heel. Place begin-row marker.
With DPNs you now have 1 needle with 30 st., this is the top of the foot, and 2 needles with
23 st.
The yarn, and beginning of the round, is between these 23-st needles.
On a cable you have markers placed after st. 23 and 53, and a begin-row marker.
Now knit the foot according to chart.
Every other round (in the RS knit round) there is a decrease on the 23-st needles.
Make these rounds as follows: knit until 2 st. before the first marker, k2tog, sm, knit until
nex marker, sm, ssk, knit rest of the round.
Decreases are made 8x total, now there are 60 st. total on the needle.
Knit the foot for the desiired length.
It's best to add to the crochet lines after every 3 blocks or so.
Toe
Stop with the chart if the sock is about 4cm less than the desired length.
break every bobbin and knit (weaving in the ends) with color D 4 rounds.
Now is the moment to complete the crochet lines.
Start the decreases for the toe:
Knit 15 st. from BOR marker. Remove BOR marker and place it here.
Place a marker (counting from this point) between stitch 30 and 31.
round 1: *knit 1, ssk, knit to 3 st. before marker. K2tog, knit 1* , repeat (there are 2 stitches
between ssk and k2tog)
round 2: knit.
Repeat this 2 rounds 5x (so a total of 6x), Now there are 36 st. left.
Repeat round 1 4x
There are 20 st.left now. Cut the yarn, leaving about 30 cm.
Sew the toe with the kitchener-stitch or 3-needle bindoff.
Sew in all the ends and block the sock.
Oh yeah, and make another one...
Youtube examples
crochet lines:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FCm_MyrPtU
weave in ends (weavin' Stephen):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fz292NAjH2M
Intarsia in the round:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgWS-IiFpEE
Happy
knitting!!
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FOOT
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