Rib and Cable Socks pattern by Nancy Bush

Pattern Description from Interweave Knits, Fall 2005: “Nancy Bush has designed these classic socks to celebrate her upcoming book Knitting Vintage Socks (Interweave Press, 2005), a collection inspired by projects in Weldon’s Practical Needlework newsletters published in Great Britain between 1886 and the end of the 1920s. Many of the men’s socks and stockings of the time, like the ones featured here, used ribbing and cable patterns. Nancy derived this pair from one called Gentleman’s Bicycle ...