Herfst /‘herst/ is Dutch world for autumn. The Herfst Socks are all about warm colors of falling leaves.
An encouragement for autumn hikes in the forest and walks in the park. Memories of picking ripe red apples in the orchard or orange pumpkins in the field.

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I designed these socks myself especially for my participation in Falling Leaves Sock KAL 2023 hosted by Earthtonesgirl on instagram.

The socks are designed in mosaic knitting which is
an easy way to create a color work pattern while only holding one strand of yarn at a time.

The Herfst Socks are knitted top down with flap heel and gussets.
Pattern works with any sock knitting way: magic loop, DPNS or short circulars.

SIZES
S = 48 sts (M = 56 sts) L = 64 sts (XL = 72 sts)
Finished sock circumference:
S 18cm/7” (M 20cm/8”) L 23cm/9” (XL 26cm/10”)

GAUGE
30 sts x 40 rows in PATTERN on a 2.25 mm (US size 1 / UK size 13) needle = 10 x 10 cm (4” x 4”)

NEEDLES
2.25 mm (US size 1 / UK size 13) sock needles of your choice: DPNS, short circulars or long circular for Magic Loop (80cm/32”) or other size you need to obtain the gauge.

I knit rather loosely and usually take smallest needle size recommended by the yarn brand. Probably, if you are tight knitter you would take a bigger needle size than mentioned above to obtain the gauge.

MATERIALS
60–100 gram /250–420 meters / 260-428 yards in total of any fingering weight / 4 ply sock yarn of your choice in two contrasting colors A and B.

You can knit them down using just two colors or a tonal yarn or some mini skeins or all the scraps and leftovers of socks yarn you have, and create fun scrappy socks by changing colors as often as like to.

Yarn amount depends on the size, foot and leg length you are about to knit.