The beautiful Flower Garden socks are a masterpiece among colorwork wool socks
Inspired by the enthralling Pihlgren & Ritola wallpapers, these knee-high wool socks bloom like a flower meadow! The narrow vertical stripes add a modern touch to the socks. If you want to highlight the floral pattern, use green yarn as your main color.
Size: 39−41 / US 8.5–9.5 (The length of the foot can be adjusted at the toe, see the pattern.)
Materials for the Flower garden socks:
- Yarn: Novita Venla (420 m / 459 yds = 100 g), MC Mugwort (372) 85 g, CC Off-white (010) 60 g
- Needles: 2.5 mm / US 1.5 DPNs, 2 mm / US 0 DPNs for cuff
- Notions: darning needle
Gauge: 31 sts × 35 rnds = 10 cm × 10 cm / 4 × 4"
Abbreviations:
- BO: Bind off
- BOR: Beginning of a round
- BORm: Beginning of round marker
- C: Color
- CC: Contrasting color
- CO: Cast on
- DPN(s): Double-pointed needle(s)
- Inc: Increase
- K: Knit
- K2tog: Knit 2 sts together
- MC: Main color
- M1L: Make 1 left, a left leaning increase: using left-hand needle, lift the loop between sts from front to back, knit into back of the loop.
- M1R: Make 1 right, a right leaning increase: using left-hand needle, lift the loop between sts from back to front, knit into front of the loop
- P: Purl
- PM: Place marker
- PUK: Pick up and knit
- Rep: Repeat
- RM: Remove marker
- Rnd(s): Round(s)
- RS: Right side
- SSK: Slip, slip, knit: Slip 2 sts, one at a time, onto right-hand needle, insert left-hand needle into sts and knit sts together through the back loops.
- St St: Stockinette Stitch
- St(s): Stitch(es)
- Tog: Together
- WS: Wrong side
Cables
- 1/1 LT: 1/1 Left twist: Slip next st onto cable needle in front of the work, K1, K1 from cable needle
- 1/1 RT: 1/1 Right twist: Slip next st onto cable needle in back of the work, K1, K1 from cable needle.
- 3/2 LC: 3/2 Left cable: Slip next 3 sts onto cable needle in front of the work, K2, K3 from cable needle.
- 2/3 RC: 2/3 Right cable: Slip next 2 sts onto cable needle in back of the work, K3, K2 from cable needle.
How to knit the Flower garden socks
Using MC and smaller needles, CO 90 sts. Join to work in the round. Distribute sts as follows: (24/21/21/24). Work Chart 1.
Once you have completed the cuff, K 1 rnd and at the same time increase 11 sts. You now have 101 sts on needles. Distribute sts as follows: 26/25/24/26. Change to 2.5 mm / US 1.5 needles.
Work Charts 2 and 3. Redistribute sts in the beginning of Chart 3 as follows: 16/17/16/16. If you want the pattern to pop out, use green yarn as the dominant color. You can find tips for color dominance on YouTube.
Heel
Once you have completed Charts 2 and 3, you have 65 sts on the needles. Cut CC and continue with MC only. Knit all sts of Needle 1 onto Needle 4. Turn work and P32.Turn work. Work Chart 4. The heel flap and heel turn are worked flat in rows. The turning point is marked with a red vertical line on the chart.
After completing Chart 4, PUK 17 sts along both side edges. K 5 more sts to move the BOR to the middle of the sole. You now have a total of 77 sts on needles.
Distribute sts as follows: 18/21/20/18. Work Chart 5. The last 5 sts of the chart are worked in vertical stripe pattern. The size of the sock is approx. 39 – 41 if worked as per the pattern. If you need to make a smaller size, you can stop working the colorwork pattern as soon as the little toe is covered and then cut CC.
Toe decreases
After completing Chart 5, cut CC and work the toe using MC. K 1 rnd. On the 2nd rnd with MC, decrease 5 sts. You now have 60 sts on the needles. Work until the little toe is covered, and then it’s time to start the toe decreases. Make sure that the sts are distributed as follows: 15/15/15/15.
Begin by working decreases on every other rnd as follows: On Needles 1 and 3, work to 3 sts before end and then work K2tog, K1. On Needles 2 and 4: start by working K1, SSK and then work to end. Once you have 9/9/9/9 sts on the needles, continue by working decreases on every rnd. Once you have 4 sts on each needle, cut yarn and thread through the remaining sts. Fasten off and weave in ends.
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