Creighton sock pattern by Kiersten J
KNITTING PATTERNS BY KIERSTEN HARROD

Creighton Sock Pattern (Updated)

Slipped stitches and the easiest of cables combine in this fascinating repeating pattern that highlights the beauty of any sock yarn. From wild contrasts to even solids, your yarn is the star of the show in these intensely textured stitch patterns that are suitable for men and women alike.

I love the way the stitches in the Creighton sock pattern show off all the colors in hand dyed yarn.

Why knit the Creighton sock pattern?

Creighton is a great choice of pattern to highlight hand dyed yarns with lots of color and contrast. Often, these gorgeous yarns overwhelm a pattern design and the design becomes muddled or simply lost. One of my most frequent design challenges is to find ways to showcase these yarns, as so many of us can’t resist collecting them, but struggle to find good patterns for them.

I’m fascinated by the challenge of designing patterns for these yarns. You may have already seen me tackle this problem in my Lancet sock pattern. While Lancet features strong, clean lines that move our eyes along the bold design elements, Creighton utilizes slipped stitches in various ways to break up the fabric’s visual field and give our eyes a lot of different lengths of stitches to look at. Our eyes are caught by what appear at first to be flaws in the fabric, but with the briefest study prove to be a fascinating pattern of their own. Unlike some other stitch patterns, the high color contrasts provided by some hand dyed yarns only enhance what is happening in the knitted fabric rather than muddling it.

What are the pattern characteristics?

  • Top-down construction
  • Circular knitting techniques
  • Charted and written instructions
  • Slipped stitches, simple cable stitches, ribbing, increases and decreases, short row heel turn, picking up stitches for gussets, Kitchener stitch grafting
  • Detailed instructions for Kitchener stitch grafting

What materials Are needed?

  • Approximately 400 yards light fingering weight yarn. Model made in Malabrigo Sock, Persia colorway.
  • Needles, U.S. size 1, or size required to achieve 8 st/inch
  • 2 stitch markers
  • 1 small cable needle or size 1 double pointed needle to use as a cabling needle, unless you are comfortable cabling without a needle
  • Tapestry needle
  • Scissors

What knitting skills do I need?

Beginning sock knitters will have no problem mastering this fun pattern.

The clear instructions provided in the pattern will guide you through the techniques listed in the pattern characteristics section above.

Where can I buy the Creighton Sock Pattern?

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Final Notes from kiersten J

Why is this sock pattern called Creighton?

For me, sometimes the hardest part of designing a pattern is coming up with a name for it! A large branch of my family are Creightons. In fact, two great aunts who were Creightons were some of my earliest exposures to fiber artists. They were nuns and I have fond memories of going to sleepovers at the convent with my sister and sitting with them and the other nuns after dinner while they all knitted and crocheted away on their projects and watched/played Wheel of Fortune. After they passed, my mom gave me their knitting needles, crochet hooks, and tatting supplies. I often think of them, Sister “Joe” and Sister “Tess,” when I knit or crochet.

In addition, I believe I started working on this pattern during March Madness one year. The blue of the yarn I was using for the pattern model isn’t far off the Creighton University Bluejays’ blue. I think the non-stop basketball in my ear added to the subliminal stew that always simmers when it comes to me trying to name a kntting pattern and “Creighton” is what popped out of my brain. (I can’t even blame anyone else for this influence. I love March Madness.)

Happy knitting!

Kiersten J

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