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The first part covers sock knitting basics, but there are charts included with ball park measurement for feet based on shoe sizes. There's another table for the number of stitches to cast on based on the circumference measurement. She covers how to adjust for different foot shapes. Then we move to sock construction. She includes directions for 4 DPs, 5 DPs and two circs! Then we move into the sock patterns! This book is arranged more like one of the Harmony Aran guides, where the patterns are broken down by number of stitches in a repeat. The patterns are arranged like a stitch dictionary, too. Instead of every pattern verbatim, they have one pattern at the beginning of the section with the different stitch repeats and then behind that, they have thumbnails of the pattern stitches with charts and long hand instructions. The section with 4 stitch repeats has 12 patterns alone! After that, there are sections for 5,6,8 and 12 stitch repeats. Then sections for cables, patterns for self-striping yarns, Fair Isle, "reticulated" patterns (small Fair Isles that repeat to make a bigger allover pattern look, like the green sock on the cover) and mosaic patterns. A quick count netted 72 possible patterns from this book alone!