Use up your partial skeins of leftover socks yarn. Combine 2 or more of your favourites and enjoy creating a pair of unique socks. You could also use 2 complementary half skeins, using one colour as the MC for one socks and as the CC for the second sock.

The patterns in this series are inspired by the many varieties of coreopsis in our garden. I love to see their bright faces as I take my morning stroll with Pup. Coreopsis flowers are profuse, bright and hard not to notice and even harder not to like in our summer garden. Some have dark green ferny airy leaves that are also highly ornamental even without the flowers. Their blooming season is very long, often lasting well into autumn. The colours can vary widely from cream to yellow, to pink and even lilac. Corepois “Route 66”, pictured at the bottom of the pattern page, is the inspiration for these socks.

The socks are worked in the round from the top down. Instructions are given for working the socks on 4 or 5 double pointed needles. However, the pattern can easily be adapted for knitting on 2 circular needles, or on 1, using magic loop.

Both charts as well as written instructions are included. In addition, a pictoral tutorial of the stitch is included as a separate file.

The socks shown here used 45g of the main colour (dark green) and 25g of the contrasting colour “Sea veggies”. Additional yarn would be required for a larger sock.