Cat and Dog Socks

Celebrate your very best friends with the Cat and Dog Socks! This collaborative project between Andrea and Catherine at Gauge Dye Works is inspired by the bestest pets, with sweet and skeptical faces and very accurate paw prints. Fun, variegated colours are paired with simple and satisfying broken rib pattern to make a project that’s hard to stop knitting. Finish it off with colourwork toes that are bound to give you happy feet. This pattern is the June design for the 2026 Gauge Summer Yarn + Pattern Club. Signups for the kits and KAL are now closed. Pattern and yarn are exclusive to the kits for a year and will be available individually in 2027. Like my designs? [Subscribe to my weekly newsletter][2] to get updates, exclusive sales, and recommendations, plus the Mill Hill Toque pattern free! **Sizes** Finished Foot Circumference: 7.5(8.5, 9.5) in/19(21.5, 24) cm **Yarn** Yarn quantities are approximate. 312(351, 390) yd/285(321, 357) m fingering weight yarn Gauge Dye Works 4-ply Sock (75% superwash Merino wool, 25% nylon; 465 yd/425 m per 100 g skein) Colourways: Muddy Paws (brown, grey) Sun Puddle (orange, brown, grey) Rainy Walk (green, blue, grey) **Blocked Gauge** 34 sts/40 rounds = 4 in/10 cm in Stockinette stitch with smaller needle 34 sts/36 rounds = 4 in/10 cm in stranded colourwork with larger needle **Needles** Use set double pointed needles, long circular needle for magic loop method, or other preferred small circumference knitting method. Ribbing & single-colour Stockinette Stitch: Suggested Size US 1/2.25 mm needles Stranded Colourwork: Suggested Size US 2/2.75 mm needles **Notions** tapestry needle stitch marker waste yarn (optional) **Skills** I consider this an intermediate level pattern. Techniques used include working stranded colourwork from charted instructions with shaping in the chart, wrap-and-turn short row shaping, decreasing, and grafting. [2]: https://www.andrearangel.com/newsletter