This pattern has been designed for the Supersock World Championship 2026 competition. It will be available to everyone for free after the end of the race.

Fancy forced biscuits
The motif in this design reminded me of the biscuits our neighbour made when I was a little girl.

I was intrigued how these biscuits were made along with the look and taste – full of butter and sugar, no wonder they tasted so good to my young palate. The biscuit dough was forced through a disc with various configurations of holes and slits to form the different biscuit shapes – it never took any force to persuade me to consume these fancy looking and yummy biscuits as a child.

This is a fun and easy design with no long floats, perfect for knitters new to stranded colourwork socks.

These socks are knitted toe up and feature a rounded wedge toe and heel flap and gusset. The heel flap is worked in slipped stitch pattern. The socks are finished with two Vikkel braids and ribbing.

Pattern information

Sizing
A-63, B-67, (C-71, D-75), (E-79, F-83) sts
Finished circumference (approximately); 17.5, 18.5, (19.5, 21), (22, 23) cm/
7, 7.5, (8, 8.25), (8.75, 9.25) inches.

Yarn
Fingering weight sock yarn in 2 colours with good contrast.
Allow 60-80 g for MC and 40-60 g for CC. Solid, semi-solid or tonal colourways would work well for this design.

Gauge (worked in the round and measured after washing and laying flat to dry)
36 sts/40 rounds= 10 cm/4 inches over stranded colourwork.

Needles (for working small circumference in the round)
2.25 mm/US1 needles (or size required to achieve gauge).

Pattern formats
The instructions for the construction of the socks are written and charted. The motifs are charted and have written instructions.

Thank you
Thank you to studio249 and all the SWC testers.

A huge thanks also to yarnymama and yalta for their ongoing valued advice, guidance, feedback and encouragement.