A little fun for sock knitters! This pattern is knit toe-up using Judy’s Magic Cast-On, and uses a German Short Row heel. This is an intermediate pattern – I don’t recommend it for first-time sock knitters. (If you are a new sock knitter, I recommend knitting this pattern first, before attempting these flip-flop socks.)
Pattern + video tutorial – $8 US via PayPal. 
Sizes: Women average width, any shoe size. Two sizes are for shorter toes and longer toes. Please see note below on measuring your toes, which is a crazy thing to do, I know.
Needles: Size US 1 (2.5mm) 32” circulars and double-pointed needles (DPNs are ultimately optional, but you will need two sets of needles for a short time in this pattern. You can use two circulars instead.)
Yarn: 100 grams of fingering weight yarn (also called sock yarn or 4ply yarn), less required for shorter socks. The shortie socks I knit used about 50g of yarn.
Additional Materials: tapestry needle for weaving ends
Gauge: 8.5 stitches per inch, 10 rounds in stockinette
You can queue this project on Ravelry here.
The yarn I used:
Light Teal Blue – Uru Yarn from a KnitCrate Kit
Red shortie socks – Yarn Carnival, High Wire 3-ply in Beet
White/Blue (photo with Birkenstocks) – TactileDactyl from a KnitCrate kit
Measuring your toes:
Using a ruler, measure the length of your big toe by putting the ruler between your big and second toes. The shorter (average) toe size is for big toes that measure about 1.5” (4cm) long, the longer toe size is for big toes that measure about 2” (5cm). If your toe length is somewhere in-between, I recommend knitting the shorter size.
The yarn I use for demonstration is Berroco Vintage (it is not the yarn I used in my finished socks, it is a thicker yarn I used for demo.)
The circular needle I used are Chiaogoo from an interchangeable set.
The double-pointed needles I used are Knitter’s Pride Bamboo.
My nail polish is ASP Gel Polish in “Pink Sweetness”.
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Hi Staci!! This looks so fun to make! My Daughter loves toe socks (every year, for Christmas, I’m searching high and low for toe socks for her!! She’s 35 now and I haven’t missed a year so far!!), but I think she would LOVE these for summer time wear. Heck, I know I would love some!!
I’m with YOU totally on loving the 9″ circulars. Wouldn’t do socks any other way any more! But I am crazy-curious on WHAT 9″ circs you’re using in the video! I know they’re not ChiaoGoo, as I own every set of 9″ ChiaoGoos known to man, both steel and bamboo. WHAT ARE THEY?? Who else makes 9 inchers?? Are they some kind of KP?
Hi Gail – the 9″ circulars I use in the video are Knitter’s Pride Dreamz, which are wood.
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Is there anything i would need to know to make these socks for a man? Is there something beyond length measurement? Is the width going to be very different? My husband loves socks & flip flops and has been asking me for socks like this for years! Would love to make them……
Hi Flo – I may update this pattern to include men’s size, but it is really made to fit a woman’s foot, which is much narrower than the average man’s foot.
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Hi Staci,
I’d like to buy the sidewalk talk flip flop socks for a fellow knitter so how do I do that and share it through ravelry? (I did get my pattern transferred over.)
Hi Barbara – right after you sent this, I saw a Ravelry gift purchase go through from someone named Barbara…I’m assuming you figured it out. 🙂
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Hi Staci, I’m happy you created this pattern! I love tabi socks and have knitted a pair or 2, but found the methods used in those patterns to do the split toes to be very fiddley. They used provisional cast-ons and I never got them to look good. I’m looking forward to trying these.
Hi Staci, me again. I’ve finished the toe parts and “tried” them on. since I have a long middle toe, the little piggies portion stops short over my little toe. Will this work out or should I add more rounds?
Barbara – I’m not sure I can answer that, I’m not sure what you mean by “stops short over my little toe”. I don’t recommend adding any rows, because you’ll ultimately mess up the stitch count and you could end up with a very wide sock. My initial thought is that the sketchiness of the sock should take care of it.
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