Background: Kman goes to a Montessori school and wears a uniform consisting of navy or white socks, navy pants and a white or red golf shirt. He prefers navy socks and each year asks me to knit him a new pair of navy socks. Last year his shoe size grew so FAST he hardly had a chance to wear the socks that I had knit him. But his ankles and legs are still the same circumference.
So, rather than knit new socks, I thought I'd save some time and rip back the toes and reknit to lengthen. I have lots of navy sock yarn purchased just for him! After I reknit the first sock and had him try it on, he did say the band was a bit tight. So in addition to lengthening the socks, I ripped out the top of the sock band and cast off using Jeny's Super Stretchy Cast Off.
The photo might not show it well enough, but you should see the original sock length on top of the new sock length - I added over an inch in length!
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