Socks for the Season

Foliage Forager Socks by Mary Anne Benedetto

Do you love to show off your hand-knit socks under a rolled-up blue jean cuff or folded over a boot top? How about your sock drawer? Is it picture worthy with an assortment of colors, styles, weights, and textures to satisfy any whim? The Foliage Forager Sock, designed by Mary Anne Benedetto of Apriori Knits, ushers in a change of season that happens quite regularly in the sometimes hot, sometimes cold, always beautiful northeast. Benedetto knit the sample sock with Bear Mountain Botanicals in a fingering weight. Fiber is New York-sourced Dorset wool, deftly spun by Greenwich NY manufacturer Battenkill Fibers, and delicately dyed in a palette of delicious colors by Green Matters Natural Dye Company in Pennsylvania. According to Benedetto, the yarn often inspires the design. The Foliage Forager Sock features the best of fine but delicate detail, simple shapes, and no-nonsense sock yarn in a combination of seed stitch and ladder pattern. If you’re looking for your next simple yet elegant sock with the added detail of a turn-down cuff for showing off, look no further. Socks are the perfect take-along or quick pick-up project, easily fitting into a purse or small knitting bag and so appropriate for that down-time on the road or evenings on the couch in front of a warm fire.