There’s a saying that you should give your children roots and wings - and my girls have certainly found their wings, especially if they belong to an aeroplane as they both love to travel!

These fun mosaic socks were designed with not so small daughter’s trip to Nepal in July 2024 in mind - a blend of fun, trekking and working on a social project with the organisation World Challenge. It’s going to be a life-changing trip, and no doubt with one or two surprises - just like these socks! The monkey face appeared quite by surprise during the design process, but is perfect to represent the monkeys that live in Kathmandu.

The Monkey Puzzle Socks are constructed as top down socks with a heel flap and gusset. The heel is knitted in alternating colours carried across the heel flap which creates a durable, cushioned heel. The mosaic pattern is worked with slip stitches and finished with duplicate stitch.

You can find out more about this pattern and the story behind it at: https://www.winwickmum.co.uk/2024/06/monkey-puzzle-socks.html

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Yarn

West Yorkshire Spinners Signature 4ply in Chocolate Lime (395), MC
West Yorkshire Spinners Signature 4ply in Butterscotch (240), CC

Materials

2.5mm needles – short circular needle, DPNs (double pointed needles) or 80cm circular for magic loop
1 set DPNs size 3.0mm (optional for a looser cuff)
1 set DPNs size 2.5mm (not required for magic loop)
Stitch holder (optional)
Stitch markers
Wool needle

This pattern is for:

• Knitters who can confidently cast on, knit and purl. (I’ll help you with the rest!)
• People who like monkeys, dragons, South American ancient carvings or just a fun pair of socks using the mosaic knitting technique

This pattern is based on my Basic 4ply Socks pattern, which means that you can find photo and video help in the Winwick Mum Sockalong tutorials.

Printing info:

The pattern is 22 pages long.

• 14 pages of pattern including written instructions and charts

• 6 pages of photo tutorial

• 2 pages of additional information at
  the end