Frog Lilies Socks

Nothing says summer quite like a couple of grumpy frogs on their lily pads. I loved knitting the mitts and mitten versions of this pattern for my baby sister Alena. She keeps the mitts in her desk drawer at work and the mittens live in her coat pocket. She adores them and everything was wonderful until someone regressed into a jealous middle child again.

*cough*Megan-Anne*cough*

Despite the fact this person already has a fine selection of mitts and doesn’t wear mittens despite what she may claim, she thought either the mitts or mittens would be for her. Like there were two finished items and two of them. How was the math not mathing? So, being the wonderful big sister that I am, I knitted a pair of Frog Lilies Socks for her LIKE I HAD PLANNED TO DO ALL ALONG.

You’re welcome, person who shall remain nameless. We all know you’re a slut for socks anyway.

The Frog Lilies Socks features a frilly picot edge at the cuff and a frog pond done in stranded colorwork around the leg. These grumpy frogs’ blushing cheeks and whites of their eyes are added afterwards with duplicate stitch. An afterthought heel is set-up to be worked later, polka-dots representing lily pads are carried through the foot, and a row of lilies are knitted before the toe.

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About the Socks

Recommended Yarn: Four skeins of Lattes & Llamas Vacation Yarn (75% Superwash Merino, 25% Nylon; 463 yds / 423 m – 100g) or a comparable fingering weight yarn in four contrasting colorways.

Sample is shown in ‘Archdruid’ as Color A, ‘Baskerville’ as Color B, ‘My Warlock Girlfriend’ as Color C, and ‘Stars Hollow’ as Color D.

• Color A: 26 (29, 32) g – 120 (134, 148) yds / 110 (123, 135) m
• Color B: 6 (7, 8) g – 28 (33, 37) yds / 25 (30, 34) m
• Color C: 16 (18, 20) g – 74 (83, 93) yds / 68 (76, 85) m
• Color D: 35 (39, 43) g – 162 (181, 199) yds / 148 (165, 182) m

Needles: US 1.5 / 2.5 mm 40” circular needles or size needed to obtain gauge for the cuff, heel, foot, and toe of the sock.

US2 / 2.75 mm 40” circular needles or size needed to obtain gauge for the colorwork around the leg and before the toe of the sock.

40” circular needles are used to work in magic loop, which is my preferred method of knitting socks. However, they can be worked on DPNs or 2 circular needles if preferred.

Sizing:

Size 1 (2, 3) has an 8 (9, 10)” / 20 (22.75, 25.5) cm foot circumference, unstretched.

Leg Length from Cuff to Start of Heel: 6” / 15 cm

Foot Length: Adjustable

Happy Knitting, ya’ll!

~ Jac

In the middle child’s defense, she was already whiney and wine-drunk after having a bad day when she discovered they were both meant for Alena. The jesting is all done in good fun.