love island socks
I know, I know, my timing is awful but back when Love Island was relevant (and on the actual telly), I bought the Love Island Mini Set from Alison at @biffsugaryarns and fell in love with it’s neon bikini brightness.
Originally I was going to use the minis as part of my Nobody’s Perfect shawl but when I was podcasting about them a while ago I thought that perhaps they would be better put to use as socks. It was just a passing fancy but in the end I thought it would be rather splendid to design a pair of shorty socks, having never done so, and so it happened.
The pattern will work with any mini set or any fingering weight or 4ply yarn, you really don’t have to do these socks in stripes if you don’t want to, they will look just as scrummy in one colour and they are super comfortable too because I just wore them out, with my trainers, to walk the dog. Yahoo!
You will also need 2.25mm (or 2.5mm depending on your fit preference) circular needles as this pattern is worked using the magic loop sock knitting method - you can of course use DPNs but the pattern is optimised for the magic loop method.
