Tufted Diamonds by Jody Pirrello

I've always been enamoured by knee high socks - store-bought or hand knit, striped or textured.  It doesn't matter.

Unfortunately, my calves were not engineered for most knee highs (socks or boots for that matter).  I've grown tired of walking through the aisle of a store and spotting an awesome pair of knee highs only to learn there's *no way* I'll be able to get them around my calves.

There are lots of ways you can incorporate calf increases into knee highs - strips of filler stitches or sections of stitches that taper to nothing are a couple examples.  But what I wanted to design was a pair of socks that looked fluid in the stitch patterns, and gave knitters the flexibility to custom-fit them to their own calves.

I think I've done that with Tufted Diamonds.  The socks can be made to fit up to a 20" calf!

And if you like the look of the sock but want to avoid the extra knitting of knee high length, I've also included instructions for a more typical crew height sock as well.

I hope these socks will allow knitters to make a truly well-fitting knee sock regardless of calf size!

Yarn provided by The Loopy Ewe.

Sizes

Two lengths - crew and knee high with option to custom-fit calves up to 20".

Yarn

Knee Highs: Indigo Moon Nature's Harvest (100% superwash merino wool; 370  yards [342 m] /100 grams): Madder Red, 2 hanks

Crew Length: Regia Silk (55% new merino wool, 20% silk, 25% polyamide; 218 yards [200 m] / 50 grams); Green, 2 balls

Needles

US#1 (2.5 mm): 36" or 48" circular for magic loop

Gauge

32 sts and 40 row = 4" in St st

Notions

Tapestry needle.