Square Sock Toe
![Rather than knitting around the cast on stitches, you start by knitting a small rectangle.](/content/images/size/w960/2022/08/square-toe.jpg)
Square sock toes are mysterious. When you see the finished sock, nothing about the toe shaping looks square. But the sock does indeed begin with a small square (well... more like a rectangle) of stitches.
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