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Sugar, spice, and everything nice?! That’s what gingerbread homes are made of!

Find a toasty hue of yarn that matches your favorite gingerbread recipe, then pick your favorite candy-colored yarn to garnish your gingerbread with all the trimmings. Of course, no gingerbread home is complete without luscious drips of thick, sweet icing!

The Iced Gingerbread Socks feature a simple and meditative stitch pattern that is perfect for cozy holiday nights by the fire or a festive movie. A thoughtfully crafted slip-stitch pattern produces the perfect icing drip transition between the candy-inspired contrasting cuff, heel, and toes. An Eye of Partridge heel produces a texture that allows your contrasting yarn to pop in a unique and unexpected way. Feeling extra inspiration? Embroider additional candy-inspired decorations on your socks!

Please tag me in any photos you share of this design on Instagram, and use the hashtag #IcedGingerbreadSocks. I would love to see your projects!

Suggested Yarn Colors:

MC: A brown or tan, solid, semi-solid, or tonal yarn that makes your mouth water for the snap of a crisp gingerbread cookie.
CC1: A colorful, variegated, and/or speckled yarn that reminds you of whatever sugary sweets would adorn your gingerbread home. Note: A more saturated color palette will provide the best contrast to both the MC and CC2.
CC2: A pure white or off-white yarn.

The pictured sample uses Valley Yarns Huntington in Brown Sugar (MC), lolodidit Loriginal in Cornucopia (CC1), and Knit Picks Stroll in White (CC2).

Sizes & Fit:

54 st (62 st, 70 st, 78 st)
Approx. 6” (6.75”, 7.75”, 8.75”), unstretched
Most people prefer to wear socks with about 1-1.25” of negative ease. The sizes above would fit a foot up to a 7.25” (8”, 9”, 10”) circumference.

Yarn requirements (per pair):

40-100g brown or tan, solid, semi-solid, or tonal fingering weight yarn (MC)
15-30g colorful, variegated, and/or speckled fingering weight yarn (CC1)
6-10g white, cream, or lightly colored fingering weight yarn (CC2)

The pictured sample uses 175 yds/40g, 71 yds/16g, and 19 yds/4g, respectively (62 sts).