Spring is the season of renewal and flowers. The first glimpse of brightly coloured Spring flowers signal to us that Winter is drawing to an end and light, colour and warmth are returning to us once again.

These socks celebrate the arrival of Spring (or help it along it’s way!). They are knit from the cuff down with a mock cable rib (optional), a heel flap and gusset and have a small colour-work section for the flowers written in chart form.

The pattern is written for using the magic loop circular needle method (but can be knit with dpns). These socks are a fun way of using up your colourful bits of left over fingering weight sock yarn.

Size:
Needle size is chosen according to the size required and gauge.
Colourwork gauge

• Small - 38 sts x 40 rounds 10cm on needles 2.25mm (US 1)
• Medium - 34 sts x 38 rounds on needles 2.5mm (US 1.5)
• Large - 32 sts x 26 rounds on needles 2.75mm (US 2)

There are 5 colours used in this pattern:

• Main colour: Pale blue with speckles (Baerenwolle Baerfoot sock) app. 250 metres (273 yards)
• Contrast colour 1: Blue (Lang Yarns sockenwolle) app. 100 metres (109 yards)
• Contrast colour 2: Green (Drops Yarn, Fabel) app. 25 metres (27 yards)
• Contrast colour 3: White (Drops Yarn, Fabel) app. 10 metres (10.9 yards)
• Contrast colour 4: Pink (Drops Yarn, Fabel) app. 8 metres (8.7 yards)
• Contrast colour 5: Yellow (Drops Yarn, Fabel) app. 2 metres (2.1 yards)

You can use whatever colours you like. Spring flowers come in many shades!