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Collin Sox

Downloadable PDF, English, English
$9.23
Collin Sox
$9.23
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These socks were designed to honor my cousin Collin, who took his life in March of 2020. He was a talented artist from a very young age, and would spend hours drawing dinosaurs, comic book characters, and his favorite exotic cars with incredible detail. After high school, he attended Wyotech, an auto mechanic training college with airplane hangars full of cars he could take apart and put back together (a true car lover’s paradise!). This led to an incredible opportunity to work on high-end exotic and luxury cars, where he installed custom performance enhancements (he even developed his own turbo enhancement for Porsche!). Translating his talents and passions into a sock design is a pretty tall order, but my goal was to choose a few elements to work into a simple design that he would have loved: the twisted cables make me think of tire treads, and the diagonal purl stitch panel echoes some of his later graphic design work, plus it makes me think of racing stripes! These socks knit up qu

Craft
Knitting
Designer
Stefanie Goodwin Ritter
Format
Downloadable PDF
Language
English
Number of patterns
1
Skill Level
Intermediate