I feel like we’re well into true knitting-season right now in the Northern hemisphere. The leaves are starting to fall from the tress, and almost every day is a woolly sock day. While I continue to knit through the summer, keeping my hands occupied with sock projects, I’m always much more excited about my knitting projects once the seasons change. With that in mind, I’ve chosen two seasonally-appropriate patterns for this month’s Patterns of the Month. Keep reading to find out all about them.
Susurration Socks
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My Sunday afternoon walks often go past fields of wheat, and in the breeze, they whisper quietly to me: susurration. The pattern name has actually been a bit of a curse since I published the pattern because I cannot reliably spell it!
The colours in the yarn echo the yellows of wheat fields, a theme that is reflected in the lacy wheat stitch pattern the makes up the central panel of the socks. I came across the slipped-stitch textured stitch pattern in a stitch dictionary under the name grass stitch, which tied in so beautifully with the theme I couldn’t not include it!
The Susurration Socks are knitted from the toe up and use a gusset and heel flap construction, shaped with short rows. The socks have a pattern on the instep and around the leg, while the sole is knitted in stocking stitch. The gusset length is affected by your row/round gauge, so a table of gauge-dependent lengths is included to help you achieve the perfect fit.
The socks come in three sizes [finished sock circumferences, 16 (20, 23.5) cm 6.5 (8, 9.25) in], and the pattern is written to be needle-neutral and can be knitted on any of DPNs, short circulars or long circulars using the magic loop technique.
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Snowflake Infinity Scarf
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Are you looking beyond autumn to the first snowflake? I love snow, through a window, while curled up with a mug of hot chocolate, but I have kids and they always want to go out and build snow creatures, so I need to make sure I can wrap up warm!
The Snowflake infinity scarf features a tessellating snowflake design based on traditional Scandinavian knitting. The infinity scarf is designed to be long enough to wrap round the neck twice for extra warmth. It’s knitted as a long tube in the round with the pattern being incorporated using stranded colourwork, and the tube is seamed at the end after blocking.
Do you prefer charts or written instructions? The Snowflake pattern is provided as both, so you can work from whichever you prefer.
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