Gnome Place Like Home Socks Kit by Charlotte Stone
Gnome Place Like Home Socks Kit by Charlotte Stone
Gnome Place Like Home Socks Kit by Charlotte Stone
Gnome Place Like Home Socks Kit by Charlotte Stone
- 4x Exmoor Sock full skeins (50g each) in Plashes, Peggles, Mizzle and Drumble
- Project bag
- 4x Exmoor Sock full skeins (50g each) in Oolypuggers, Peggles, Mizzle and Drumble
- Project bag
- 4x Exmoor Sock full skeins (50g each) in Hemel, Peggles, Plashes and Mizzle
- Project bag
- 4x Exmoor Sock full skeins (50g each) in Blooth, Bibble Bug, Aggy and Mizzle
- Project bag
- 4x Exmoor Sock full skeins (50g each) in Fairy Thimble, Mackerel-Sky, Oddmedod and Mizzle
- Project bag
- 4x Exmoor Sock full skeins (50g each) in Mackerel-Sky, Quickbeam, Fuzzpig and Drizzle
- Project bag
The Gnome Place Like Home Socks are designed by Charlotte of Stone Knits. Please note that the kit does not include the pattern. You can purchase the pattern via Ravelry and on Etsy. They are also included in Charlotte's book "Joyful Colorwork Socks".
These super-sweet Christmas gnomes make for the most perfect festive project. We just love a colourwork sock – satisfying, quick and surprisingly simple, but add a jolly seasonal character and we’re sold. Perfect!
Charlotte Stone is the Queen of colourwork socks, and we’re thrilled that she has decided to use our Exmoor Sock yarn again in one of her beautiful patterns. We have had the most fun coming up with some colour combos for you, including a very Christmasy set of shades!
Pattern Info & Sizing
Pattern Info & Sizing
The Gnome Place Like Home Socks are designed by Charlotte of Stone Knits. Please note that the kit does not include the pattern. You can purchase the pattern via Ravelry and on Etsy. They are also included in Charlotte's book "Joyful Colorwork Socks".
These socks are knit from the top down. They have a cute Christmas gnome motif that repeats from the top of the leg down through the foot. There is an option to add a bobble stitch nose. While working the gnomes’ faces, there are three rounds using three colors. This can be achieved by using three-color, colorwork knitting or with duplicate stitching. The socks start with a ribbed cuff and feature a short row heel. Stitches are decreased for the toe and then grafted together.
Sample:
- MC: Plashes (Puddles)
- CC1: Peggles (Berries)
- CC2: Mizzle (Light Rain)
- CC3: Drumble (Bumblebee)
- CC4: Fairy Thimble (Foxglove) (Only scrap yarn amounts are required for CC4, so it's not included in the kit.)
Sizing: 1 (2, 3) – to fit a foot circumference of 19–21 (22.5–24.5, 26–28) cm / 8 (9.5, 10.75)"
Finished sock circumference: 17.5 (21, 25) cm / 7 (8.5, 9.75)"
Gauge: 36 sts x 44 rounds = 10 x 10 cm / 4 x 4" (in ribbing and stockinette, on 2.25mm / US 1 needles, or needle size to obtain gauge)
34 sts x 38 rounds = 10 x 10 cm / 4 x 4" (in colourwork, on 2.5mm / US 1.5 needles, or needle size to obtain gauge)
Yarn Characteristics
Yarn Characteristics
Exmoor Sock:
Exmoor Sock not only celebrates Exmoor, but is designed to be perfect for socks, whilst still having the versatility to suit garments and accessories that relish a hard-wearing, machine-washable yarn. It’s durable and bouncy, with great stitch definition and holds up incredibly well. We offer our Exmoor Sock in 50g skeins so that 3 skeins will make you two pairs of socks in most sizes!
70% British wool, 20% Falklands wool, 10% Nylon.
200m per 50g
Care Instructions
Care Instructions
We recommend that our yarns are gently washed before use as we don't do any washing or conditioning after the yarns are spun and skeined. You'll be amazed by how much the fibre blooms after a soak and it will certainly help you get a more accurate feel for gauge and character of the yarn over time.
If using hand dyed yarn then this step is not necessary, but you may wish to stripe your skeins for colour consistency.
Once your piece is finished, we recommend another hand wash before wet blocking the piece to the given dimensions. This will set all your stitches and guarantee that your garment looks its best.
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