Optional Lace Pattern for Front of Socks

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Optional Lace Pattern for Front of Socks

If you want to add a little excitement to your socks (especially if you are using a solid color), add this easy 3-stitch lace pattern. It gives you something to do each row and looks like a little zipper running down the front of your socks. Here's a video showing how to work the lace pattern. Starting right after you finish the ribbing, work as follows on instep side of the sock:

• Row 1: K 10(12,14), K2tog, YO, K1tbl, K 11(13,15).
• Row 2: K 10(12,14), K1tbl, YO, K2tog, K 11(13,15).

Repeat rows 1 and 2 on instep side of each sock until you begin to decrease for the toe, at which time you will resume knitting all sts in St st.

When you switch to St st for the toe, knit the YO of the previous lace round through the back loop, blending it in to the St st of the toe.