Proud to be

Proud to Be honors my love of color, my love of socks, my love of rainbows and all that rainbows represent. They speak to my love for the LGBTQ+ people in my life and my support of the worldwide LGBTQ+ community. They’re also personal celebration of wrapping up my first year as a full-time professional designer and knitting instructor. In creating them, I wanted to honor all that’s exciting, true, and vibrant in me and all that’s exciting, true and vibrant in you.The design for these socks evolved from my desire to add a little extra fun to the colorful rainbow stripes of Vesper Sock Yarn’s Rainbow Love colorway without obscuring the self-striping nature of the yarn. The slipped-stitch colorwork patterning does that with a pattern that is simple and intuitive to knit once you understand how it works. While it was designed to be worked over four-row stripes, the patterning will work on any self-striping sock yarn that creates stripes at least three rows tall.Beyond the stitch pattern, this is a good, solid, toe-up sock pattern that will teach or expand your sock skills, full of tips and tutorials on Kitchener stitch, afterthought heels, textured colorwork, and a bind-off that may be new to you — because we can always be proud of learning new skills! THIS IS A DIGITAL DOWNLOAD PATTERN ONLY - NOT A FINISHED PRODUCT Build your own kit. Add this pattern, along with the yarn to complete the project, to your cart and receive an automatic discount!