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When I design socks and take pictures of them, I think a lot about how they are going to look from the wearer’s point of view and from the observer’s point of view. Some socks look similar from both directions, but some, especially if they involve a picture, look better from the observer’s point of view. While those socks are fun to create, sometimes I get a little sad that the person wearing them, who is also the one enjoying them the most, has to look at the picture upside down.

But then other socks look good from both directions, even if they don’t look exactly the same. That’s where these socks fall. This stitch pattern is directional, but it’s pleasing to look at regardless of which direction you view it. That’s why it’s named Mount Floral: when viewed with the cuff at the top (the observer’s viewpoint), the special stitches look like a bunch of colorful mountain peaks, but when the sock is flipped so the cuff is at the bottom (the wearer’s viewpoint) the stitches turn into little flowers. Because of this, while these socks are written for knitting cuff down, if someone wanted to knit these toe up instead, it can be done without changing the chart; the end result will just flip the observer’s viewpoint to flowers, and the wearer’s viewpoint to mountain peaks.

Sizes: Child S (Child M, Adult S, M, L, XL) with 6, (6.5, 7, 8, 9, 10)” or about 15 (16.6, 18, 20, 23, 25) cm circumferences.

Yarn:
MC: 100g (463 yds / 423 m) of fingering weight yarn (50g will be enough for the smallest 3-4 sizes, unless you want to make the legs extra long)
CCs: 6 x 10g mini skeins (46 yds / 42 m) of fingering weight yarn

Feel free to get creative with the number of CCs you use. For the children’s sizes, you may only need 3-5 colors, whereas for the adults you may want 5-7, or even more, depending on how long you want the socks to be.

Or, make the entire sock with just one CC. You should have 50g of the CC for the adult sizes if you do this.

Alternatively you can include more colors on the children’s sizes by only doing one stripe of each color (the default is two stripes of each color), or reduce the number of colors needed for the adult sizes by increasing the number of stripes per color.

Needles: US size 1 / 2.25mm

Extras: Stitch markers, tapestry needle, DPN (optional)

Gauge: 32 stitches and 46 rows to 4” (10cm) worked in stockinette stitch in the round.