note: this purchase is for a pdf pattern. you will receive a download link upon purchase.

traverse the high seas with the haunted flying dutchman, a ghost ship rumoured to be a portent of doom for live sailors. or maybe don’t be quite so creepy, and leave the murky seas to nox yarn co.’s holy terror colourway travelling up your foot in thick cables like ropes winding up a mast. dating back as far as the 17th century, the penny dreadful version of this tale was written in the mid-1800s by one of the most prolific writers of the genre, and adapted into an opera by wagner a couple years later.

welcome to a season of penny dreadfuls, and socks inspired by the 19th century equivalent of pulp fiction.

needles: US 1 (2.25mm) dpns OR circular needles appropriate for preferred method, or size needed to obtain gauge

yarn: 460 yards (421 metres), 100g of fingering weight yarn 
sample shown in nox yarn co’s mars sock (75% superwash merino/25% nylon, 460 yards 421 metres, 100g) x 1 skein in holy terror

notions: 2 stitch markers, sock blockers (optional)

gauge: 36 stitches x 40 rounds = 4” (10cm), in stockinette, worked in the round, blocked

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