Runaway Shorties

Yarn: Fingering weight, approximately 50-100 g, or 200-400 yds./183-366 m (actual yarn usage will depend on size made and length of foot

Needles: US 0 (2.0 mm)

Use your preferred type for knitting small circumferences in the round.

Gauge: 36 stitches and 48 rows = 4 inches in stockinette stitch in the round

Sizes: To fit foot circumference of 6.5, 7.6 (8.5, 9.5, 10.5) in./16.5, 19 (21.5, 24, 26.5) cm

If you look at commercial running socks, you’ll notice that they often have more fabric around the heel, particularly at the back. These shortie socks are my effort to recreate the extra cushion of those socks in hand-knit form. A doubled cuff and a tab at the back of the heel add extra comfort, whether you’re running in your socks or just relaxing.

To knit these socks, you need to know how to:

• knit and purl, working flat and in the round;
• pick up stitches along an edge;
• pick up stitches from a cast-on edge;
• work standard decreases (k2tog and ssk)
• work short rows, using any method; and
• graft live stitches.

This pattern has been professionally tech edited.