Sooza's Patterns

Double Helix Socks
This is an entertaining sock pattern that features intersting lace panels which resemble a double helix. The pattern contains instructions for toe-up as well as for cuff-down construction. Choose your favorite method of knitting socks. Hints for resizing and alternative heel and toe construction are given. Instructions are given for using either fingering (regular sock yarn with yardage of 410m/100g) and medium fingering weight yarn (yardage of 300-350m/100g).
This is also my first pattern that I put up for sale in the Ravelry pattern store.
>>> Find pattern in Ravelry pattern store



Baby's First Fair Isle Sweater
After knitting a few small objects in stranded color work I really wanted to do a whole sweater. But let's face it. Even with a very easy going and carefree baby of 6 months it's not easy to find the time necessary for a large scale Fair Isle sweater. I chose to make the most of it and just knitted a tiny baby sweater using affordable and easy to care for sock yarn. It's only a small project but it still has all the challenges of a large sweater complete with steeks and everything. Perfect pattern to get you started.
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Pi Socks - A Receipe
On the hunt for a cool way to create a random or at least halfway interesting stripe sequence the best husband of all suggested looking into some mathematical numbers like Pi or E. Some research later I decided to give the number Pi a go and design a pair of socks encoding it into the stripes. This Receipe explains the logic behind the stripes and gives you hints on how to knit your own pair of cool looking Pi Socks.
>> Knit your own pair of Pi Socks.


Birch Shawl Bottom-Up
The original Birch pattern by Sharon Miller was published in Rowan Magazine No. 34 and it became a craze all over the world. Pictures of Birch shawls in all kinds of stages of completion popped up everywhere in blogland. I was intrigued and appalled at the same time. The simple leave pattern can be found in any pattern library and it lends itself to a bottom-up construction of a shawl. Why cast on hundreds of stitches when you can start with only 3 or 5 and work your way up? Besides a bottom-up construction makes working with a limited or even unknown amount of yarn so much easier.
>> Hints for working the shawl from the bottom up


How to Knit a Josephine Shawl
A Josephine shawl is a wonderful way to use handspun or selfstriping yarn and it makes for a lovely mindless on-the-go project. You can use whatever yarn you like, the needle size you like best and at any gauge that strikes your fancy.
>>Short instructions


Lacy Cables Knee Socks
Unstrechted the lace pattern does appear like simple cables which led to the pattern's name.
Not sure you really want to wear knee-lenght socks? Not sure whether you have got enough yarn? These socks are worked toe-up because it makes adjusting size and calf shaping to personal preference much easier. And you can do it on the fly, too Just try on your socks once in a while and decide where you have to alter things a bit. Make sure to take notes so you can work your second sock the same way.
There is no spelling out how to cast-on, work toes, heels or how to cast-off here. Neither are there instructions provided for different sizes. Therefore this pattern is probably best called 'recipe'.
Yarn: 190 grams of Louet Gems Merino (100% Merino Wool, 185 yds/50 gram, machine washable and dryable) in French Blue
Needles: 2.25 mm DPN
Size: shoe size 42, 43 cm high
Download: >> Lacy Cables Knee Socks (EN; PDF; 7.5 MB)


Summer Time Socks
An easy, narrow lace panel and a fetching color is all it takes for a pair of breezy summer socks.
Pattern: Generic sock pattern worked over 64 stitches with a heel flap
Yarn: LANG Yarns Jawoll sock yarn (75% Schurwolle, 18% Polyamid, 7% Acryl; 210m/50g) in the brightest fuchsia
Needles: 2.25 mm DPNs
Download: >> Not really a download, only a wee little lace chart

Butterflies Shetland Shawl
I always wanted to do a traditional shetland shawl but the commercially available patterns were either too complicated for my taste or didn't catch my eye. So I just made up a design of my own. This is a classical Shetland shawl as far as it consists of a center square knitted back and forth, a border knitted outwards in rounds and an edging attached sideways. The pattern is only available in English and might not be suited for a inexperienced novice in lace knitting.
Yarn: 250 grams Linen thread 20/2 (345m/50g), half-bleached
Size: 120 x 120 cm | 46" x 46"
Needles: 3 mm
Date: Dec 2003
Download: >>Butterflies Shetland Shawl pattern (EN; PDF; 7.7MB)