To Celebrate the 150th birthday of Canada

Ottawa, Canada is particularly famous for its annual Tulip Festival. During WW ll, Canada hosted Princess Juliana and her daughters to keep them safe from the war and invasion of the Netherlands. In 1945, the Dutch royal family sent 100,000 tulip bulbs to thank Canadians for sheltering the princess and her family and for helping to liberate The Netherlands during the war.

In 1943 Princess Juliana gave birth to Dutch Princess Margriet in Ottawa during the war. In 1946, Princess Juliana sent another 20,500 bulbs requesting that the display be created outside of the hospital where her daughter, Princess Margriet was born. The ward where the princess was born was temporarily declared international territory so that the baby would be born in no country and would inherit only Dutch citizenship from her mother. This was the beginning of our now famous Ottawa Tulip Festival.

Spring Tulips is a single motif sock with a large tulip on the leg and the foot. This beautiful toe-up sock incorporates ktbl and cdd stitches and a short row heel. The chart can be knit on the foot and the leg or only on the leg. For an extra special look, try adding beads to the cdd and ktbl – on the leg only.

Size - medium 66 stitches

Yarn suggestions: solid colour, semi-solid, tonal, lightly variegated

Not suitable for: heavily variegated, striped, patterned yarn, or heavily variegated with quick colour changes