Cthulhu-Socks

Iä! Iä! Cthulhu fhtagn!

The great old one is sleeping. Good for us!

Cthulhu is described as a mixture of octopus, dragon and humanoid form ­ and many horror stories, role­playing systems, comics or movies meanwhile have adopted the myth. Here is now a detailed step­-by­-step guide for stranded colorwork socks from size US 4 to 13, which are knitted toe up. The socks have a horseshoe heel and gussets. You can choose from 4 widths with 60, 64, 68 or 72 stitches for a great fitting. The instructions are adapted to high­quality sock yarn with 400 metres per 100 grams.

The instructions consists of: detailed instructions, 4 PDFs with charts 2 to 4, how-to-bind-off and how-to-cast-on.
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Techniques used:
• Open cast on (Videolink)
• Knitting in the round
• Making stitches (right-leaning / left-leaning)
• FairIsle knitting / stranded knitting
• Short Rows
• Decreases (right-leaning / left-leaning)
• Invisible bind off ( extra pdf)

US 4-13, UK 2-11, EU 35-45

Yarn:
Please use yarn with 400 meters per 100 grams!
Toes, the part of the foot up to the beginning of the gusset, heels, and cuffs are knitted in the main color.
You need between 50 grams (size US 4) and 80 grams (size US 13).
Chtulhu is knitted in a contrasting colour. You need between 18 grams (size US 4) and 25 grams (size US 13).

Needles:
Stranded colorwork often results in a slightly tighter knit than stockinette stitch. Therefore, my tip: use two different needle sizes for the different areas of the socks!

For the pattern part, use the needle size according to the gauge (see below), size EU 2.5-3
/ US 1.5-3 depending on how tight / loose you knit.
For the solid colour part (toe, parts of the foot, heel, and ribbed cuffs), go a quarter or half needle size down, size EU 2-2.75 / US 0-2, depending on how tight / loose you knit.

I recommend using circular needles and the magic loop technique. You can also knit the socks with doublepointed needles you still need 2 circular knitting needles to cast on the socks (you start the socks at the toes).

Further materials:
• Stitch markers plus one special to mark the beginning of the round (= round marker)
• Tapestry needle