I finished the Peace Socks last night.
To recap, these are toe-up socks knit on 2.75mm needles using Chameleon Colorworks Evolution sportweight sock yarn, in the “Mourning Dove” colorway, purchased from The Loopy Ewe.
Although the pattern is similar to Cookie A.’s Baudelaire socks, I decided to go ahead and offer the pattern as a freebie because:
- The Peace Socks are worked in sportweight yarn and Baudelaire is a fingering weight pattern.
- Baudelaire is a freebie, so by offering mine free, I’m not taking sales away from the lovely and talented Cookie A.
- They aren’t exactly the same as Baudelaire anyhow.
So, anyhow, the Peace Sock pattern is available here, in pdf format. It is permanently linked to from the Free Patterns page. Didja notice the tabs at the top of the blog? One of them takes you directly to the free patterns page. 
Cool, huh?
I started a new sock last night. Here it is:
The yarn is The Sanguine Gryphon Eidos sock yarn in the Phaedo colorway. It’s 100% merino fingering weight and I purchased it at The Loopy Ewe. I love this yarn. The subtle color changes are just amazing, and I am particularly enchanted by this colorway. It makes me feel quite . . . philosophical. 
The design is something I worked up and it consists of twisted traveling stitches on a purled background. Because this twisting and traveling tightens up the gauge somewhat, I’m knitting the sole using my usual size 0 needle, and the instep using a size 1. After I turn the heel I’ll use size 1 needles on both the front and the back because I’ll be continuing the pattern around the back of the sock.
This is one advantage of using two circular needles over dpns — you can easily knit the sole and foot on two different sizes.
I haven’t named this design yet — anyone have any ideas?
Thanks for all the input I have so far on the baby foot sizes. I really appreciate your measuring your little ones for me.
Several of you have pointed out that babies vary quite a bit so age is not a great guideline. I do realize that, but it is a start. I’m hoping I’ll eventually get a range of measurements for a number of different sizes so the chart will be useful to give one a ballpark idea of how big to knit socks. I’ve on occasion been asked to make socks for “a 12-month-old” and I know I’d like to have some measurements for a starting point since I have no personal experience with babies, apart from having been one lo, those many years ago.
Thanks to those of you who mentioned existing resources in the comments. I’ll compile those and add them to my chart page so they’ll all be in one place.
Lucy, however, still doesn’t “get” socks. She prefers bird watching.
I am trying to start my third pair of socks and finally have an intelligent question to ask. Do you knit loosely in general? I tried to start sock pair #3 using size 0’s because — well, because so many of you do! — and found that I was getting a gauge of 9.5 stitches/inch! It seemed a bit, well, tiny to me. But I’m a tight knitter. Sock pair #1 was too big. Sock pair #2 was too small, so I’m trying hard to get it right for sock pair #3, but have frogged about 4 times now. Sigh. I so want to get to the point where so many of you are…you just cast on for a pair of socks like you’ve been doing it for years. Oh yeah. I guess you have!
Hey, thank you so much about the yarn, I’m very glad you like it! It’s named for the Plato dialogue Phaedo, and I’ll be sure to dye more as soon as more base yarn arrives (there’s a little backorder issue). For anybody who needs some right away (Phaedra!) there are still two little skeins left in my shop.
You are very generous to provide us with the Peace socks pattern. Thanks. They are so pretty. As usual, you have another winning photo of Lucy. She is quite the photogenic model cat!
I’m thinking Parthenon. They look like Greek muses, dancing on a rhyton. And the name of the yarn… it just leapt to mind.
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Ooh, I love socks with twisted stitches. This makes me think of combs (I was trying to figure out what the middle elements most looked like to me) in waves.
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How about “Clef” or even “Treble Clef” for the socks…
Always enjoy the blog. Lucy’s a bigger girl than I realized, looking at her sitting on the chair to watch birdies out of the window.
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I thought of the elements also , but more Geo rytyhmn.You do beautiful work.
Shelda
I am glad you are still making socks, I can not tell you enough how wonderful is to come and find a new pair of socks you are working on. I have not started mine yet, maybe late October lol!
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They remind me of the socks that Stephanie Pearl-McPhee was working on – I think they were called something like Rivendell. Maybe Galadriel instead??? They’re very Art Nouveau.
My son has a BS in Philosophy and loves to debate every topic. (Luckily he has a great sense of humor.) In honor of his (oft) convoluted paths to the point of his argument, er..debate, I immediately thought “Twisted Logic”. Love the colorway. And the Peace Socks are pretty cool, too.
I really like how that Mourning Dove yarn pooled — very tie-dye ’70s kind of look which goes quite well with the Peace theme!
About about “Philosophical Socks”? Yah, it’s boring, but much easier to say than “Philosockical” –
or, Platoes ?? or, Sockratees ??
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May I web-adopt your adorable Lucy. No papers necessary, but your translations of her thoughts-a must! (She makes me miss my old kitty!)
Really love the peacesocks! You should have a knit-along…it would help me to finish my other 4 socks on the needles…not that I couldn’t start another pair…**socklover’s giggle**
Do let us know when you’ve found a sock that is suitable to Lucy’s tastes.
The other sock looks like a thistle, very english garden. Just my thoughts.
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How about the name navajo for your bavarian twisted stitches sock
How about Tulips on Your Toes?
‘Phaedo’ is one of the trial and death of Socrates dialogues and opens with Echecrates asking Phaedo if he was with Socrates when he drank the poison. So there’s my name proposal: When He Drank the Poison. Might not those be little cups full of hemlock?
Hey, have you made publishing plans for this design yet? I don’t suppose you want to offer it to me for my pattern collection…?
I immediately saw hieroglyphs (bad spelling), so why not Glyphs? Kinda has an ancient world feeling to it!!
Is that film clip perhaps what you would call a “director´s cut” ?
It should be nominated for next year´s Oscars. And you can wear your fabulous Lismore when you receive the prize.
It would look awfully good on the red carpet, too.
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