The Cottage Garden Socks are inspired by the flowers in my garden blooming in spring and feature an elegant lace pattern which reminds me of honeysuckle and climbing hydrangeas.

Construction:
This is a toe up sock pattern with a heel flap, and leafy lace patterns on both the front and back of the sock. The pattern uses magic loop, but can also be adapted to use DPNs.

Sizes:
There are 3 sizes available: Small (56sts), Medium (64sts) and Large (72sts).

Yarn:
300-400yds of fingering weight yarn.

Needle sizes:
2.25mm / US 1 (or any to obtain gauge)

Gauge:
30 sts / 42 rows = 4 inches (10cm) in stockinette stitch

Notions:
Tapestry Needle, Progress marker, Tape Measure

Techniques Used:

• Knitting and purling
• Judy’s Magic Cast-on
• Jeny’s Surprisingly Stretchy Bind-Off
• Increasing
• Decreasing
• Magic loop
• Short rows

This pattern has been test knitted.