Evighet

Evighet are a pair of fingering-weight toe-up socks with a delicate and timeless stitch pattern that resembles long-forgotten pressed flowers I found between the pages of an old diary. Although faded and wilted, seeing the flowers transported me back in time to the very day I picked them.

A stockinette toe gradually transforms into a stitch pattern with tiny buds surrounded by wavy twisted stitch columns. The heel flap is worked in a variation of twisted ribbing, morphing seamlessly into the main stitch pattern and flowing beautifully into a short twisted-rib cuff.

Evighet socks come in three sizes: 62, 66, and 70 stitches. Right and left socks are identical and can be knit two at a time. 

Both written and charted instructions are given for the stitch pattern. The pattern is written with both metric and US terminology.

Sizes

• S [M, L]

• 62 [66, 70] sts

• To fit shoe size approx. EU 37/38 [39/40, 41/42] / US 6–6½ [7–8, 8½–9½]

Finished Measurements

• Foot circumference: approx. 19 [21, 22] cm / 7¾ [8, 8½]”

• Foot length: approx. 22 [23, 24] cm / 8¾ [9, 9¼]”

• Leg length from top of heel flap: approx. 15 [18, 21] cm / 6 [7¼, 8¼]” or adjustable within pattern

Yarn

• Lanitium Ex Machina Basic Sock (75% wool, 25% nylon, 420 m/100 g, 459 yd/3.53 oz),1 skein in the colorway Swan Lake

Yardage

• Fingering-weight sock yarn, approx. 300 [350, 400] m / 330 [380, 440] yd

Gauge

• 32 sts × 40 rounds = 10 cm / 4"

Needles

• 2.5 mm / US #1½