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Socks inspired by the Winter season, featuring a nighttime landscape with candy cane decorations, winter forage items (holly, snow yam, and crocus), and festive snowman rarecrows.

These socks are worked cuff-down starting with a decorative trim and 2x2 rib, followed by a colorwork leg knit from 3 charts. The short row heel is knit in one color, followed by the colorwork foot. There are 2 foot charts - 1 for the small & medium size foot length, and 1 for large & x-large size foot length. The toe is finished in one color and grafted together.

Note that there are a few rounds where you’ll need to hold 3 colors at once.

Note on yarn: I used Palette due to its wide color range, but note that it doesn’t contain any nylon. So these are not meant to be hard-wearing socks but instead “keep your feet cozy while you lay in bed knitting more socks” type of socks! If you plan on heavy usage, you might want to sub in a yarn that contains nylon. Palette makes a pretty hefty sock though compared to regular sock yarn so if you sub regular sock yarn I highly recommending going up a size, or at least be super sure you are obtaining gauge with your needle size.

Other seasons:
Spring (The Valley Comes Alive)
Summer (The Sun Can Bend an Orange Sky)
Fall (The Smell of Mushrooms)

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 (8.75, 10, 11)” / 20.5 (22, 25.5, 28) 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

Color substitutions:

If you’d like to reduce colors for Winter, I recommend…
Substitute Bison in place of Bittersweet 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
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

Pattern has been tech edited.

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