I call these Heartlove, because you (or your recipient) must love hearts to knit them! While I used six colors to create these, I invite you to get creative and use as many or as few colors as you desire.

These socks start with a folded cuff, and use two-color stranded knitting. There is an option to add duplicate stitch to outline the large hearts. Ladderback Jacquard is recommended to manage the long floats.

I provide lots of notes to help you get well-fitting colorwork socks, as well as links to four video tutorials.

Sizes: S (M, L) to fit foot circumferences 7-7.5(8-8.5, 9-9.5)” or about 18-19 (20-22, 23-24) cm

Yarn:

Fingering weight yarn, 6 x 20g miniskeins or leftovers consisting of about 92yds (42.3m) per 20g mini, with varying color intensities (2 light, 2 medium, and 2 dark)

You could also choose to use a main color plus 3-6 contrasting colors, or even just two colors throughout the sock with an optional accent color. Feel free to play with color in this pattern!

Needles: US size 1 / 2.25mm

Notions: Stitch markers, tapestry needle

Gauge: 36 stitches and 42 rows to 4” (10cm) worked in stranded colorwork, unblocked.