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Soft and Warm – Hand knitted socks are a real treat for your feet.  Follow my simple free sock knitting pattern and learn how to knit your own colourful top down socks in children’s and ladies sizes. Your hand-knitted socks will feature contrasting cuffs, heels and toes for a really fun feature that’s easy to knit.

Lidl’s Crelando Anika 4 Ply Sock Yarn is super cheap. Here’s a free sock knitting pattern to knit with it.

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Knitting Yarn

This pair of socks is knitted from Anika 4 ply Sock Yarn from Crelando, exclusive to Lidl. It costs just £4.99 for two 100g balls. Yes, you read that right £4.99 for 200g of sock yarn. That’s enough for two pairs of ladies socks with this free knitting pattern.

It’s exclusive to Lidl and they don’t stock it all year round, just occasionally. So it’s well worth checking the Lidl website and getting yourself to your local store when they have this yarn in stock.

It’s made from 75% wool and 25% polyamide. So this isn’t cheap yarn either! It’s soft and snuggly and knits up beautifully.

Yarn Substitutions

If you aren’t able to get any of the Crelando yarn (it foes sell out FAST) here are some alternatives that work beautifully with this free sock knitting pattern.

West Yorkshire Spinners Signature 4ply is one of my favourite premium sock yarns – and the colours are to die for! Paintbox sock yarns are a great option as is Jame C Brett’s funny feet sock yarn

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Knitting Tension

This free sock knitting pattern is suitable for all 4ply sock yarns. Ideally the tension should be 30 stitches and 42 rows to form a 10cm / 4 inch square swatch.

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Knitting Needles

I use 3.25mm double pointed needles for the main sock knitting and 3mm double pointed needles for the cuffs. You could use the magic loop method with this knitting pattern, personally I prefer to use double pointed needles but it’s totally up to you.

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Free Sock Knitting Pattern

This knitting pattern includes three sizes. The larger sizes are shown in brackets. You might find it helpful to highlight or circle the size you’d like to make before starting to knit.

UK Shoe size 8-12 Small Child (1-3 Large Child, 4-7 Ladies)

Knitting the Sock Cuff

Start with 3mm needles.

Using the Long Tail method cast on 36 (36, 48) stitches and divide them over three needles, 12 (12, 16) stitches on each needle

Knit in the round Knit 2 Purl 2 rib for 2 (3, 3) cm

Knit the last row to stop colours mixing

Change colour if desired

Knitting the Sock Leg

Knit in the round until sock measures 13cm (15cm, 17cm)

Knitting the Sock Heel

Separate 18 (18, 24) stitches for the heel

Change yarn if desired

Work in Heel Stitch until heel is square – Knit 1, Slip 1 Purl wise. Purl on wrong side.

Once the heel is square turn the heel as follows:

Slip 1, Knit 11 (11, 15), SSK, Turn

Slip 1, Purl 5 (5, 7), P2Tog, Turn

Slip 1, Knit 5 (5, 7), SSK, Turn

Repeat the last two rows until 6 (6, 8) stitches remain. Ending with a knit row

Change yarn if desired

Pick up and knit an equal number of slipped stitches along each side of heel.

Split heel and instep stitches equally across two needles. The third needle has the stitches that will go across the top of the foot.

Knitting the Sock Instep

Row 1 – Knit across all three needles

Row 2, Needle 1 – K to last 3 st, SSK, K1

Row 2, Needle 2 – Knit across foot top

Row 2, Needle 3 – K, K2Tog, K to end

Repeat these 2 rows until 36 (36, 48) stitches remain

Knitting the Sock Foot

Knit until foot measures 13cm (16cm, 19cm)

Knitting the Sock Toe

Change yarn if desired

Knit another 1cm so that foot measures 14cm (17cm, 20cm)

Row 1, Needle 1 – K to last 3 st, SSK, K1

Row 1, Needle 2 – K1, K2Tog, K to last 3 st, SSK, K1

Row 1, Needle 3 – K, K2Tog, K to end

Row 2 – Knit across all three needles

Repeat these 2 rows until 8 (8, 10) stitches remain

Move stitches onto two needles.

Cast off in Kitchener Stitch as follows:

Set Up:

1. From the Front of your work, Purl, leaving the stitch On the needle
2. From the Back of your work, Knit, leaving the stitch On the needle

Kitchener:

1. From the Front of your work, Knit, taking the stitch Off the needle
2. From the Front of your work, Purl, leaving the stitch On the needle
3. From the Back of your work, Purl, taking the stitch Off the needle
4. From the Back of your work, Knit, leaving the stitch On the needle

Sew in The Ends

Use a knitters needle to sew in the ends of your yarn. Snip off the excess and your socks are done!

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More Sock Knitting Projects

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