Strange Horticulture socks

Strange Horticulture is a 2022 occult puzzle game where you inherit a plant store. You find and identify plants, pet the store cat and try to unravel the dark mysteries in the town. After playing it, I craved some botanical socks, and this pattern was born.

The socks are knit cuff-down with a very simple pattern that looks more intimidating than it is to knit. For the heel, choose between either a textured/cabled heel flap or a slip stitch heel flap. There’s a square heel turn and gusset, and a star-toe decrease at the end.

PATTERN INFO

Size: 1 (60 stitches), 2 (64 stitches), 3 (72 stitches)

Needles: 2.5 mm (US 1.5)

Gauge: 36 st for 10 cm

Yarn: Fingering/sock weight yarn.

• 3-coloured sample: MC: Fjord Fibres Trollfjord Sock (350 meters per 100 grams), 80% wool, 20% nylon. Colourway: Iris Meadow CC1: Blacker Yarns Limited Edition Pure Llanwenog (350 meters per 100 grams), 100% llanwenog wool CC2: Rauma Garn Finull (175 meters per 50 grams), 100% wool. Colourway: 4067
• Single colour sample: Froehlich Wolle Special Blauband (210 meters per 50 grams), 75% wool, 25% nylon, colourway: Green. 2 balls used.

Skills required:

Knitting in the round using double pointed needles or the magic loop method.

Reading a chart.

Basic cable-knitting.

Basic lace-knitting.

Basic decreases (knit 2 together, purl 2 together).