Light in the window
Enchanting house lantern colorwork socks
Light the room with these lovely house lantern socks! The easy colorwork motif is finished by embroidering the details with duplicate stitch.
Size: EU 37–38 with a gauge of 29 sts and 32 rnds = 10 × 10 cm.
House lantern colorwork socks: supplies
- needles 2.5 mm (US 1.5)
- sock yarn in 6 different colors, weight 400 m/100 g
These sample socks use Katia United Socks yarns:
- 55 g white (White 6)
- 10 g black (Black 10)
- 10 g green (Khaki 21)
- 10 g light pink (Rose 14)
- 10 g blue (Jeans 12)
- 10 g brown (Rust 2).
Abbreviations:
- k: knit, knit stitch
- p: purl, purl stitch
- rnd: round
- RS: right side of work
- SSK: slip, slip, knit; slip two stitches separately knitwise onto the right needle, pass them back to the left needle, and knit them together through their back loops (left-leaning decrease, 1 stitch decreased).
- st(s): stitch(es)
- WS: wrong side of work
How to knit the House lantern socks:
- Cast on 64 sts with white yarn. Divide them onto four needles (16/16/16/16) and join to work in the round.
- *K1 through the back loop, p1*. Repeat *–* to end of rnd. Work this rib for 10 rnds.
- Work Chart 1.
- After completing Chart 1, break the contrast yarns and continue the heel with the white yarn.
- Work the heel: Move the sts on needle 1 onto needle 4. Turn the work and p32. Turn the work. The heel flap is worked with 32 sts in a reinforced stitch pattern.
- Rnd 1 (RS): k3, *slip 1 st, k1*. Repeat *–* until 1 st remains. Knit it. Turn the work.
- Rnd 2 (WS): k2, p28, k2. Turn the work.
- Repeat Rnds 1–2 until the heel flap measures 32 rnds, ending with a WS row.
- Begin the heel turn: k13, continue in the reinforced stitch pattern for 7 sts, then SSK. Turn the work.
- Slip 1 st purlwise and p8. Purl the next two sts together and turn the work. Continue the reinforced stitch pattern for 9 sts, then SSK. Turn the work.
- Slip 1 st purlwise and p8. Purl 2 sts together and turn the work.
- Continue the heel gusset decreases in this manner until you have decreased all sts on both sides, leaving 10 sts in the middle.
- Pick up 17 sts along each side. K5 onto needle 4 to shift the back seam to the center of the sock's sole.
- You now have 76 sts. Distribute them as 23/16/15/22.
- Work Chart 2.
- After completing the chart, you have 64 sts. Adjust the st distribution to 16/16/16/16 as needed. Continue with white. Knit 1 rnd. On the next rnd, decrease four sts total, leaving 60 sts, distributed as 15/15/15/15.
- Shape the toe: When your little toe is covered, decrease as follows on every other rnd: At the end of needles 1 and 3: Knit the third-to-last and second-to-last sts together. Knit the last st. At the beginning of needles 2 and 4: K1, SSK.
- When there are 9 sts left on each needle (9/9/9/9), continue decreasing on every rnd. When there are 3 sts left on each needle (3/3/3/3), break the yarn and pull it through the remaining sts. Weave in ends.
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House lantern socks, Charts 1-2(PDF)
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