The Bábóg knitting pattern is for a doll’s sock for an 18 inch doll such as Gotz Precious Day, Our Generation or American Girl.
The socks can be knitted either top down or toe up. They use contrasting colour toes, heels and cuffs, with a gusset at the heel.

The socks fit a typical 18 inch doll such as Our Generation, American Girl or Gotz Precious Day.

The finished socks have a foot circumference of 3 ½” / 9 cm, foot length (adjustable) of 2 ⅛” / 5.5 cm and leg length (adjustable) of 2 ¾” / 7 cm. To be worn with slight negative ease on a doll with a foot circumference of 3 ¾” / 9.5 cm.

Yarn required:
Small scraps of any sock yarn or 4 ply yarn in 2 contrasting colours. Colour A: for toes, heels and cuffs – approx. 4g, 16 meters Colour B: for main body of socks – approx 8g, 32 meters

The socks are worked with a colour block, boomerang heel technique. It has a gusset on the top of the foot before and after the heel.

Accessibility

This free pattern is written to be as accessible as possible, using the British Dyslexia Association guidelines. For this reason, some traditional features of knitting patterns are altered slightly. For those who prefer a more traditionally presented pattern, the PDF download for this pattern can be purchased as part of the Weirs on the Dodder sock pattern, where a traditional layout is available.

The pattern is written in clear black text on an off white background.

There is a space between each line of instructions.

No Abbreviations are used. All instructions are written out in full. For example, instead of saying ‘k1’, the pattern will say ‘knit 1’.

All emphasis is created using bold font, no text is in block capitals or italics.

Where instructions need to be repeated, this is stated both before the repeat, and afterwards. This aids screen reader accessibility, and those who need clarity on sequencing steps. For example, instead of saying: Round 1: knit to end. Repeat 9 times’ the pattern will say: ‘You will work the next round of stockinette stitches 10 times in total Round 1: knit to end Repeat round one another 9 times for a total of 10 rounds of stockinette’

This pattern is free in my blog, which is equipped with an ‘Ally“ disability widget - the blue circle in the bottom right corner gives reader control over text size, text colour, background colour, and can remove all images to make them greyscale.

GPSR
As this pattern is only available to view on line, it is not covered by GPSR. However, it is a safe to use pattern, written by Ciara Doyle, Ciara@TheFairythorn.ie

Acknowledgements:
This pattern was tech edited by Louise Plumridge, and tested by an amazing team. Any remaining errors are my own.

Copyright
copyright Ciara Doyle, The Fairythorn. made available as a free pattern for non commercial use You may sell items made from this pattern on a small scale, as long as you made them yourself, in your own home.