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I have been dreaming of these socks for a while now. I imagined a variety of leaves in the changing colors of fall, starting with greens, moving through oranges and into reds.

The socks have larger leaves with smaller background leaves mixed in, thus creating a veritable leafsplosion on your socks, to remind you of a flurry of leaves drifting and swirling about on a windy fall day.

These socks are mirrored so there are separate charts for right and left socks, and I’m including a second file that has inverse color charts for those who find them helpful. Like my other stranded colorwork sock patterns, I include lots of tips and tricks as well as links to helpful tutorials for techniques that I use when knitting colorwork socks.

Sizes: S (M, L) to fit foot circumferences 7-7.5 (8-8.5, 9-9.5)” or about 18-19 (20-22, 23-24) cm

Yarn:
MC: 463 yds (423m) or about 100g of fingering weight yarn
CC: at least 6 x 10g miniskeins or leftovers of fingering weight yarn consisting of about 46 yds (42 m) per 10g mini

Needles: US size 1 / 2.25mm

Notions: Stitch markers, tapestry needle

Gauge: 36 stitches and 40 rows to 4” (10cm) worked in stranded colorwork in the round