Time May Change Me

This design is meant to work with the color changes of self-striping yarn, but feel free to use minis and change when you want a new color. Since the design is all about the change in colors, I had Changes by David Bowie running in my head, hence ‘Time May Change Me’ socks were named.

This pattern includes instructions for both a toe-up (pg. 3-4) and top-down (pg. 5-6) fingering weight sock with an Afterthought Heel. There is a video tutorial linked and some photos on the final page to help with this heel.

This sock is sized for the whole family, child through large adult. It is worked using magic loop; needle 1 will be front of foot/instep/leg, and needle 2 will be back of the foot/leg and heel.

Materials:

30-100g/120-464 yds self-striping fingering weight yarn (MC)

15-35g/65-160 yds fingering weight yarn (CC)

US #1/2.25mm 32” or longer circular needle, or size needed to obtain gauge

(Optional) US #1.5/2.5mm 32” or longer circular needle, or 0.25mm larger than gauge needle

darning needle

stitch marker *(Use a removable stitch marker or a progress keeper somewhere on N1 to denote BOR, since the BOR is at the beginning of N1, a regular stitch marker will slip off your needle when using magic loop. Alternatively you can place it one stitch in if still using a regular stitch marker.)

3 removable stitch markers

Gauge:

32 sts and 42 rnds = 4”/10 cm in stockinette stitch in the round on US #1/2.25mm needles

Sizes:

Sizes: 1 (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9) = 48 (52, 56, 60, 64, 68, 72, 76, 80) sts around.

Actual sock circumference: 6 (6.5, 7, 7.5, 8, 8.5, 9, 9.5, 10)”/15.2 (16.5, 17.8, 19, 20.3, 21.6, 22.9, 24.1, 25.4) cm

To Fit: 7 (7.5, 8, 8.5, 9, 9.5, 10, 10.5, 11)”/17.8 (19, 20.3, 21.6, 22.9, 24.1, 25.4, 26.7, 27.9) cm around ball of foot. *(You want your sock to have about 10% negative ease around and 10% negative ease for length.)