It’s finally Spring here in the UK and it’s amazing how much different I feel after a few days of sunshine! It’s been grey for so long and now we are seeing snowdrops and signs of life everywhere, I feel like it’s time for a cute, lace sock pattern release in celebration.

These shortie socks begin at the cuff with a German Twisted cast on (or any similar stretchy cast on), then after the rib you’ll go straight into knitting the heel flap. As the socks are just skimming ankle length, there’s no chance of getting second sock syndrome and you should be finished in no time. It’s even possible to knit two pairs of socks from one ball on the smaller sizes.

Harlyn Bay is a very quick knit shortie socks pattern that was originally released in Knitting Magazine last year as part of their summer portable patterns collection. Now I’ve got my rights back, I’ve restyled it and and had it retested to make sure everything is as it should be. I’m also in the process of reformatting all of my patterns to make them more accessible and running it through a bunch of knitters is great for this!

I love working lace patterns into my designs and the repeat in this one is small and easily memorable. It’s a great pattern if you’re familiar with basic lace but haven’t knit socks before as they are small and so quick.

This is a stash-busting sock pattern, however for this sample I used super-soft Colour Wheel from Peak District Yarns in Dusk. The yarn base is a high twist semi solid 4ply in 80% merino, 20% nylon. This was my first time working with PDY and I would love to try more of their colours as there are so many lovely shades to choose from!