I am so excited to introduce my newest design, Chirality Socks! This pattern has been one of my favorites to design and is so fun to knit up. The pattern is available now on Ravelry.

The Chirality Socks feature a lovely cabled rib pattern that travels from the cuff to the toe and even onto the heel! The cables on each sock twist in opposite directions, making them “chiral,” or non-superimposable mirror images. I loved adding all of these little details onto the socks and figuring out the best way to arrange them. I’ve always wanted a pair of socks that were cabled all over, and the Chirality Socks are the closest I’ve gotten to that so far. I love how these dainty 1-over-3 cables add a beautiful texture to the socks.

For the Chirality Socks, I chose this lovely, very lightly speckled yellow from Teal Torch Knits, called Dose of Sunshine. I used her TTK Sock base, which is probably one of my favorite sock yarns to design with — I feel like Christina’s colorways just “get me” with their brightness, joy, and neon amazingness, so I keep finding myself on her shop again and again to order more skeins.

Designing Challenges

When I’m designing, I like to work in increments of eight so that I can always include my standard sizing: 48 {56, 64, 72, 80} stitches (because I never want anyone to feel left out). The good news is that I can fit a lot of design into eight stitches, but sometimes I end up with something that I want to split, and for my 56- and 72-stitch size socks, this can be extra challenging since they won’t have a full eight-stitch repeat on the front and back of the sock.

I consider it a personal challenge to include all of the elements of the designs in all of the sizes and to make them as symmetric and centered as possible. For the Chirality Socks, this means that I needed to set up the 56- and 72-stitch sizes to have one more cable on the front of the leg than they do on the back of the leg. That way, they get maximum cabling and no interruptions to the cabled rib motif. It took a while for me to solve this problem, but in the end, I think the socks turned out beautifully.

As a result, the 56- and 72-stitch sizes have a slightly different heel flap, where the pickups will proceed as they normally would in one of my slipped-stitch heel flaps. Here is a pair that I made for my daughter in this lovely blue from Adella of Lolabean Yarn Co. This pair was made using her Bean Sprout base in the Chevron Chalet colorway, which was an Eat.Sleep.Knit exclusive from a few years ago.

Picking Up Stitches

The even sizes of the sock (48 sts, 64 sts, and 80 sts) have the cables going all the way to the edge of the heel flap so that everything stays centered. This ended up being slightly different to pick up stitches. I always like to pick up the strand between the slipped-stitch edge and the stitch right next to it. I find that this makes a lovely, clean pick-up edge on both the inside and the outside of the sock, and it avoids gaps or bonus spaces in the pickup.

On a regular slipped-stitch heel flap, the neighboring stitch is always a knit stitch (when viewed from the right side of the sock), but in this case, the neighboring stitch is a purl stitch.

When the pattern was in testing, we realized that for the 48 sts, 64 sts, and 80 sts sizes, unless you pick up your stitches similarly to how I do them, you might end up with a slightly different look at the edge of the heel flap. I recorded a video tutorial to show you how to get this lovely edge that looks great from the outside and the inside of the sock. You can find the video here:

This technique can be applied to any heel flap where there is a slipped stitch edge with a purl stitch right next to it. The technique will also work for when there is a neighboring knit stitch, but it will look slightly different. Are you interested in seeing how I pick up stitches on my regular heel flaps? Let me know!

Appropriate Dye Styles

This design will look fantastic in any fingering weight wool or wool blend yarn in solid, tonal, lightly speckled, heathered, or low-contrast colorways. I would consider both of the colorways above to be *very* lightly speckled, but how does the sock look with some more speckles?!

Personally, I think it looks fantastic! This gorgeous peach colorway is from The Lemonade Shop, and Heather is so talented at getting these teeny tiny individual rainbow speckles onto her skeins. Please forgive that there’s only one sock so far — the other one was the one I used for filming, and it just needs to be finished up, and then I’ll be wearing them all the time!

My lovely test knitters also knit up their socks in a variety of colorways. You can check out this page on Ravelry to see some of their gorgeous photos.

Thanks & Coupon Code

Thank you so much for being here and for reading through my design ramblings. Subscribers can use the code TECHNICOLORMOM to get 50% off of the pattern now through Friday, October 24, 2025. I can’t wait to see your beautiful Chirality Socks!

On the knitting front, I have accumulated an alarming number of single socks (*cough* more than ten *cough*), but I am working away on them and having so much fun. Are you hoping to see any design elements or techniques used in a future sock pattern? Let me know in the comments!