Step by step knitting colorful pair of socks pattern for homesteaders is one piece of clothing that is creative, colorful, and comfortable to wear with any shoe or just to walk around the house in.

Like knitting? Love to create homemade clothing with yarn and a needle? This is the colorful sock and it is a quick and simple design to knit with it’s easy to stitching pattern that can be remembered. A fun project to do while traveling, this is a great way to use any leftover yarn from previous projects.

Yarn weight – Fingering (14 wpi) ?

Gauge – 8 sts per inch

Needle size – US 2½ – 3.0 mm

Small sizes of these socks only use about 30 grams of a single colored yarn mainly from scraps of used yarn to change the color of the socks’ cuff, heel, and toe. Get a needle size of 2.5 – 3 mm and the yarn should weigh 14 wraps per inch. It should measure 8 stitches per inch. The cuff itself has a recognizable K1, P1 or K2, P2 pattern with a “Grass Stitch” look along the calf.

The leg and foot length can be altered to make a tailored fit for any foot. The design overall is based on leftover sock yarn with a suggested gauge on the yarn band of 7 stitches per inch.

Knit this very tightly to where the measurement for the total yarn for a finished sock is abound 8 stitches per inch using 3-millimeter double-pointed needles.Overall, this should be enough to make a solid pair of socks, colorful and creative, that can’t be bought at any department store.

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