Strawberry Socks Knitting Pattern

There are few food items that, when they are in season, I will buy with reckless abandon, regardless of the quantity of said item we already have in the house. Local tomatoes are one, but earlier in the season it’s strawberries. The local ones are best, and I have been known to go to the farmer’s market a couple of times a week to stock up on them while I can.

The Itty Bitty Berry Socks from Stone Knits celebrate the smaller wild strawberries that grow everywhere in the summer where she lives (in Switzerland).

They’re worked from the top down, starting with a little picot hem and covered with an allover pattern of little wild strawberries and colored dots. They have a short row heel and a grafted toe, and instructions are included for working the socks short or a standard longer length if you prefer. (Learn more about grafting knitting if you don’t know how to do it.)

The pattern calls for using the magic loop method to knit the socks but you can convert it to work with DPNs or two circulars if that’s the way you like to do it. (But if you’ve never done magic loop for socks before, it is a nice way to do it!)

The socks are available in three sizes, from a foot circumference of 8 to 10.5 inches (or 22.5-27 cm) and like most socks should be worked with an inch or so of negative ease to achieve a good fit. You’ll need a main color and two contrasting colors (red and green) for the socks. You might already have something in your stash that would work if you’ve ever knit holiday socks before!

You can grab the pattern from Stone Knits on Etsy. While you’re there check out all their other super colorful and fun sock knitting patterns!

[Photo: Stone Knits]

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One great thing to knit when the weather is warm (or honestly any other time) is dishcloths and washcloths. They are fun and easy projects and a great way to play with new skills. Pretty washcloths make cleaning a tiny bit more fun, and they’re great to have on hand as a quick addition to a store-bought gift.

The Daisy Delight Dishcloth from Yarnspirations is a fun one for using leftover bits of green in your cotton yarn stash. What looks like the bottom in the picture is actually the left side as you knit it, and each little color section is worked with its own ball of yarn, intarsia style.

That’s a little fiddly for a washcloth, but the effect is cute, and it’s a simple way to learn the basics of intarsia knitting (as well as reading a chart) if you don’t already have those skills.

One the knitting is done, you add the flowers with a bit of lazy daisy embroidery, which is really easy to do even if you’re not that into embroidery. You could also potentially add flowers in duplicate stitch if you’d rather.

This may be the most work you’ve put into a dishcloth, but isn’t it adorable? It would be fun to use as a hand towel through the spring and summer, and if you already have some leftover green yarn from other projects it should be pretty easy to do.

You could also take this same concept and make it different colors. All dark green stems with stars on top might be reminiscent of Christmas trees, or brown with daisy stitch on top in different colors could be trees in the fall.

However you stitch it, this looks like a fun little project for knitters who are comfortable with intarsia and reading charts or who are ready to try those skills.

You can grab the free pattern from Yarnspirations.

[Photo: Yarnspirations]

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