Toe Up Sock on 60 Stitches for Cindy

Fits Women Shoe Size 9

#0 dpn needles; 100 gm sock yarn
8.5 st/inch; 11.5 rows/inch . Very snug. Don’t get any smaller than this.

Toe: Cast on 8 figure-8 stitches (8 on each needle) (Use more if larger sock; Use fewer if larger yarn.)
Increase each row until 32 st. Then inc every other row until 60 st.

Gusset: At 6 3/4”, increase for heel 8 st (or 1 inch of st) each side every other row.

Reverse Dutch Heel: (1/6 stitches) 10 st for heel. Knit one row.
Wrong side: Slip 1, p to end
Right side: *Slip 1, k1, Repeat from * to end.
Knit 20 rows. (Twice # of heel for easy pickup)

Pick up 10 st on left side with twisted stitches.
Turn, slip 1, purl back.
Pick up 10 st on right side with twisted stitches.

Heel Flap:
Right side: *sl1, k1, repeat from * to last stitch, ending ssk
Wrong side: sl1, purl to last stitch, p2tog
Work until 60 stitches around.

Leg: Knit 1” st st, then 2x2 ribbing.

Cast of with stretchy cast off of k2, m1 (with e-cast on), p2, m1.
Then bind off as normal except slip m1 instead of knitting and then psso.