Bring a little decorative cheer into your holiday season with sweet little ornaments! Choose your motifs just like you’d pick your favourite decorations, combining what’s most meaningful and enjoyable to you. These socks make a perfect gift for yourself or those knitworthy folks in your life.

Plus, delightful stripes designed by Catherine at Gauge Dye Works make it hard to stop knitting once you get started, so you’ll be sure to have your gift knitting done in plenty of time!

This project was a 2025 Holiday collaboration between Andrea and Catherine of Gauge Dye Works.

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Sizes
Finished Foot Circumference:
6.25(7, 8, 9) in/16(18, 20.5, 23) cm

Yarn
Yarn quantities are approximate.

183(210, 236, 262) yd/167(192, 216, 240) m fingering weight yarn in two colours:

MC: 156(179, 201, 223) yd/143(164, 184, 204) m
CC: 27(31, 35, 39) yd/25(28, 32, 36) m

Shown in:
Gauge Dye Works Trifecta Fingering (80% superwash Merino wool, 20% nylon; 100g Skein (MC): 352 yd/322 m; 25g Skein (CC): 88 yd/80 m)

Colours:
MC: Ornaments; 1 100g skein
CC: Undyed; 1 25g skein

Blocked Gauge
36 sts/36 rounds = 4 in/10 cm in stranded colourwork with larger needle

36 sts/46 rounds = 4 in/10 cm in Stockinette stitch with smaller needle

Needles
Use set double pointed needles, long circular needle for magic loop method, or other preferred small circumference knitting method.

Ribbing & single-colour Stockinette Stitch:
Suggested Size US 1/2.25 mm needles

Stranded Colourwork:
Suggested Size US 3/3.25 mm needles

Notions
• tapestry needle
• stitch markers

Skills
I consider this an intermediate level pattern. Techniques used include working colourwork from charted instructions, working short row heel shaping, and decreasing.