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Spring (The Valley Comes Alive)
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These Spring inspired socks feature a mountain landscape with pink spring trees and crops (strawberries, parsnips, blue jazz and tulips.)
These socks are knit cuff-down and the pattern includes 4 sizes. There is stranded colorwork all over the leg and foot, a short row heel, and a toe finished with grafting. Note that there are a few rounds where you’ll need to hold 3 colors at once. You can choose to add the 3rd color after the sock is finished using duplicate stitch.
Yarn Note: I used Palette because because I found the vibrant colors to be the closest match to the game aesthetic out of the yarns I compared, plus this non-superwash yarn is also a great fit for intense colorwork patterns like this one. Since it is a sticky yarn, the strands grab onto each other and bloom together well after blocking, resulting in a beautiful colorwork fabric. If you choose to use Palette, please note I intended these socks to be cozy house socks to be worn gently - though to be honest I have these displayed on my wall instead of wearing them at all!
If you plan to instead heavily wear your socks, you might want to substitute a yarn that contains nylon so that your socks are more durable. A wool/silk blend would also be a great option if you prefer to stick with natural fibers. Since Palette is a wooly yarn with a lot of air, it creates a larger and thicker sock than the typical thinner sock yarns. So if you substitute yarn, I highly recommend going up one or two needle sizes AND sock sizes, so that your sock does not end up too small. You could also easily substitute yarn only for the solid color heels and toes, which get the most wear and tear, and use Palette for the colorwork.
Other seasons:
Summer (The Sun Can Bend an Orange Sky)
Fall (The Smell of Mushrooms)
Winter (The Wind Can Be Still)
Sizing: Small (Medium, Large, X-Large)
To fit foot circumference: 8 (9, 10, 11)” / 20 (23, 25.5, 28) cm
Finished sock measurements:
Foot circumference: 7.5 (8.5, 9.5, 10.5)” / 19 (21.5, 24, 26.5) cm
Foot length (adjustable): 8.25 (9, 10.25, 11)” / 21 (23, 26, 28.5) cm
Cuff circumference: 8.5 (9.5, 10.5, 11.75)” / 21.5 (24, 26.5, 30) cm
Leg height: approx 9” / 23 cm from the heel up
Cuff will stretch for a wider leg and will fit with 1-2 inches of negative ease. Foot circumference should measure approx .5” less than actual foot.
Complete color list is below for all 4 seasons. Many yarns are used for more than one season, so keep this in mind if you decide to substitute. I tried to reuse colors as much as possible, but all seasons do have some unique colors to be accurate to the game. 1 ball each is enough to make all 4 seasons.
Multiple seasons
Alfalfa (spring, summer)
Bison (summer, fall, winter)
Fuchsia (spring, summer, fall)
Garnet Heather (spring, fall)
Grass (spring, summer, fall)
Jay (spring, summer)
Pimento (all)
Pool (spring, summer, winter)
Semolina (spring, summer, fall)
Sky (summer, fall, winter)
Tranquil (spring, winter)
Turmeric (spring, summer)
White (all)
Wonderland Heather (spring, summer, winter)
Spring only
Cotton Candy
Wheat Heather
Summer only
Clover
Custard
Edamame
Mai Tai Heather
Fall only
Almond
Ciel
Fairy Tale
Golden Heather
Marsala
Merlot Heather
Sweet Potato
Winter only
Abyss Heather
Bittersweet Heather
Celestial
Lady Slipper
Majestic
Knitter moritzgirl included yardage in her project here!
Color substitutions
If you’d like to reduce colors for Spring, I recommend…
Substitute Semolina in place of Turmeric
Substitute Cotton Candy in place of Fuchsia
Substitute Pimento in place of Garnet Heather
Alternative yarns
If KnitPicks isn’t available where you live or you otherwise want to sub yarn, here are some other brands that have lots of color choices you could look into. Some knitters have also made socks entirely out of scrap yarn.
Lang Yarns Jawoll (knitter Hillise added her color subs list on the project page here!)
Wollmeise Twin (knitter Vindobona has a list of color subs and yardage on the project page here!)
Uni Merino Minis
Hobbii Sock Yarn
Drops Fable
KnitPicks Stroll - this is sock yarn that has a lot of the same colorways as Palette
GreatBritishYarns.co.uk - a retailer in Scotland that stocks Palette
Errata
March 2024: Leg chart was missing a row of Grass worked at the very bottom as Row 62. The pattern has been updated to include this row.
Patterns have been tech edited.
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