Toe-up cabled socks

These socks are pulled together from bits and pieces of the following patterns:

Wendy's Fingering Weight Toe-up Gusset Heel Sock
Judy's Magic Cast-on
Freaksngeeks' Noro Kureyon Socks (on Ravelry)



Yarn:
ONline Supersocke 100 Cotton Summer Color

Needles:
Size 0, Knit Picks Harmony dpns

Cast on 28 sts with Magic Cast-on method
Divide sts over 4 dpns (7 sts ea)
Increase 4 sts every other round until you have a total of 68 sts
Divide as follows:
Two sole dpns: 19 sts ea, these will be knit
The remaining 30 sts can either go onto one dpn or you can divide them onto two any way you like. Divide them as follows:
p2, k8, p2, k8, p2, k8, p2.
Every 8th round, the instep sts will be worked as follows:
p2, slip2cnb, k2, k2cn, slip2cnf, k2cn, p2, k8, p2, slip2cnb, k2, k2cn, slip2cnf, k2cn, p2.
Or, alternatively, you can have three cables, in which case you would do this:
p2, slip2cnb, k2, k2cn, slip2cnf, k2cn, p2, slip2cnb, k2, k2cn, slip2cnf, k2cn, p2, slip2cnb, k2, k2cn, slip2cnf, k2cn, p2.

Work this until you get to where you increase for the heel (about your foot is about two - two and a half inches shorter than you want it to be). Now, every other round, m1 st at the beginning of the first sole dpn and at the end of the second sole dpn until you have 30 sts on each sole dpn, like so:

work dpn 1 and 2 (instep dpns) (or 1, if you decided to put the remaining sts all on one dpn) per above pattern
work dpn 3 and 4 (sole dpns) (or dpns 2 and 3, if you have all the "pattern" sts on one dpn) as follows:
dpn3: k1, m1, k rem sts
dpn4: k to the last st, m1, k1
(Remember to increase (m1) only every other round!)
Repeat this until you have 30 sts ea on dpns 3 and 4.

To turn the heel work dpns 3 and 4 as follows (the rest of the sts are resting during this):
k33, ssk, k1, turn
sl1, p7, p2tog, p1, turn
sl1, k8, ssk, k1, turn
sl1, p9, p2tog, p1, turn
sl1, k10, ssk, k1, turn
sl1, p11, p2tog, p1, turn
Continue this way until all sts are worked and you have 34 sts left. Divide them up over 2 dpns again and continue working in the round again.

Combined with the 30 sts from the instep dpns, you now have 64 sts.

For the cuff, I decided to have cables all around. For this I needed 70 sts. I picked up 3 sts on each side of the heel (this has the added benefit, that you can avoid any holes you might have there).

Work the heel dpns with plain knit stitches until you have picked up the right number of sts, then start your pattern with the instep dpns, and then continue from there with the cable pattern: p2, k8, p2 until you get to row eight again, where you do a round of: *p2, slip2cnb, k2, k2cn, slip2cnf, k2cn, p2* as with the two cables, except that now you have seven cables around.

Work this pattern for as long as you want your cuff.

You can also add a ribbing, if you like. I chose not to do that with this pair of socks.

Bind off with your favorite loose bind off.

I used:
2nd to last round: m1 after every 2 sts.
Last round: k
*Ssk, put st back from rhn to lhn, rep from * until all sts are gone.

This makes for kind of a wavy bind-off. Use a different method, if you don't like this.

Enjoy!