** This pattern has been retired and is no longer available for download **

Twinkling lights strung across the mantle, candles glowing with golden warmth through the silvery veneer of frost-covered windows, and the jingle of bells and chimes on tree branches in a gentle breeze outside (or indoors, as your cat climbs your tree!) – the holiday season is full of delights for the senses. Perhaps no single decoration quite encapsulates the essence of playful enchantment, though, like a colorful ornament. Designed to capture a bit of that childlike awe, these Christmas Baubles socks will keep your feet snug and warm as you float off to the land of sugar plums, and awake into the true magic of the season: a world transformed into one of peace, comfort, and joy.

Materials

Yarn
90 - 120 grams (approximately 180 / 200 / 220 yds.) light worsted weight yarn

Yarn used in photos:
Patons Classic Wool Worsted Yarn in the Brown Mustard colorway
(1 ball for both socks, size Medium) – 100% Wool

Needles
US 6 (4.00 mm) double-pointed needles or size needed to obtain gauge.

Other options: Longer circulars for Magic Loop or circulars would also work if you’re comfortable translating pattern written for DPNs to those methods.

Notions
1 stitch marker to mark BOR (optional: additional stitch markers to mark pattern repeats)
1 tapestry needle

Gauge & Notes
23 stitches & 30 rows = 4” in Stockinette

Socks are cast on using Judy’s Magic Cast-on, then worked in the round on DPNs from the toe up. They include a heel flap and gusset heel construction, with a sideways cuff bind-off technique. Pattern features knits and purls, slipped stitches, yarn overs, decreases, and a moving beginning of round in the lacework section. Instructions are written.

Pattern is written for 3 sizes: Small (32 sts), Medium (40 sts), and Large (48 sts).

For easy visual reference sizes are color-coded.