Lazy Lace Socks – by Danielle Romanetti
For the knitter who wants something extra but
doesn!t want to work for it – these lace socks
have an easily memorized pattern that is worked
in only a small panel up the side of the sock.
Pattern is written for sock sized 8” or 9” around.
Materials
350 yards heavy fingering weight
yarn. Sample uses Socks that
Rock® Mediumweight.
US#1.5 needles or needles
needed to obtain gauge
Gauge
8 stitches per inch on US#1.5 (2.5mm) double pointed needles or two circular needles
Lace Panel
Row 1: P2, YO, SSK, K1, K2tog, YO, P2
Row 2: P2, K5, P2
Row 3: P2, K1, YO, Sl1, K2tog, PSSO, YO, K1. P2
Row 4: P2, K5, P2
Directions
Cast on using Turkish cast on, cast on 30 stitches (15 on each of two needles)
Knit one round, working the stitches onto three needles (two needles with 7 or 8 stitches each for the top
of the sock and one with 15), leaving the fourth as a working needle.
Increase row: Kfb, knit across to other end of toe, Kfb, repeat on other side of toe.
Knit one round.
Repeat the last two rounds, increasing one stitch on each end of each side of the toe (total of four
increases per repeat) until there are a total of 50 stitches. (for wider foot, increase to 54 stitches)
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Continued…
Begin lace pattern:
For left sock: Work lace panel, knit to end of round. For right sock, K16 (18), work lace
panel and knit to end. Continue working in the round, working the lace panel and
stockinette stitch until sock is approximately two inches from the total foot length. Then
place 25 (27) heel stitches on one needle and 25 (27) instep stitches on another.
Turn the heel (working only the heel stitches):
Row 1: K24 (25), move yarn forward as if to purl, slip the last stitch. Then turn your work.
Row 2: slip the first stitch, thus wrapping the first unworked stitch and purl across to last
stitch, move the yarn back as if to knit and slip the last stitch.
Row 3: Slip the first stitch and knit across to the last stitch before the last wrapped stitch,
bring yarn forward, slip one and turn.
Row 4: Slip the first stitch and purl across to the stitch before the last wrapped stitch, bring
yarn back, slip one and turn.
Repeat rows 3 and 4 above until 9 unwrapped stitches remain in the middle, ending with
row 4. (For a wider heel, leave ten stitches in the middle and five wrapped stitches on
either side.)
Heel Turn part II (working back and forth on heel stitches only):
Row 1: Knit across the 9 stitches in the middle, knit the first wrapped stitch by picking up
the wrap and knitting both the wrap and the stitch together. Move yarn forward as if to purl
and slip the next stitch (you have just wrapped that stitch a second time).
Row 2: Slip the first double wrapped stitch and purl across the middle stitches to the first
wrapped stitch. Purl that stitch by picking up the wrap and purling it with the stitch through
the back loop. Move yarn back and slip the next stitch (which is now wrapped twice).
Continue last two rows, working the double wrapped stitches on the ends by picking up
both wraps and working them together with the stitch. Continue until you have all 25 (27)
stitches, unwrapped, back on the heel needle.
Leg
Divide the stitches evenly around all three needles and begin working in the round on all 50
(54) stitches, working the lace panel and stockinette stitch until sock is 2” shorter than
desired height.
Work in K1, P1 ribbing for 2”. Bind off loosely (you may want to us a size 7 or 8 needle to
bind off with).