Ruggles Candy Cane Socks

These are cute socks with eyelet-formed candy canes. Better yet, they are done on size 5 needles in Women's Medium size so would make a fast-to-knit gift for gift-giving season. Or if you are really in a hurry, make a single sock for a smallish version of a holiday stocking for your pet or baby's first Christmas?

Note: The pattern file is PDF format, 133 KB. To view and print, you will need Adobe Acrobat reader version 4 or higher (available free at http://www.adobe.com ).

THE SOCK JOURNAL: Knit the Year in Socks

If you like Ruggle's Candy Cane Sock, you'll love other patterns by Catherine Wingate ... The Sock Journal is a full color pattern book of more socks, one for each month of the year. Includes space to record your daily knitting journey, important dates, and more. Edited by Jackie Erickson-Schweitzer. Published by HeartStrings FiberArts.

(Note: the thumbnail monthly calendars in this book only go through 2009 but the daily knitting journal is dated to be generic for any year, and of course the patterns themselves for the socks are timeless!)