The Best cozy sock knitting pattern fall round up
These are my seven favorite cozy knit socks for fall. And, of course, I couldn’t resist adding a bonus pair at the end because they’re just too much fun!
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Some socks just feel like autumn.
Maybe it’s the chunky cables and all that texture, or the fun colorwork you can play with using fall colors. There’s something special about pulling on a cozy pair of hand knit socks when the weather starts to turn.
For this list, I wanted a mixture of everyday socks and a few more special fall pieces, with everything from fingering weight all the way up to worsted weight.
1. The Mountain Socks by Darling Jadore
To kick things off, we have to go rustic. We have to go worsted, and we have to go with just pure woolly goodness.
And that is The Mountain Socks by Darling Jadore.
I love this designer anyway. She’s somebody I’ve loved to knit different patterns from, so I was immediately drawn to these socks.
the yarn
The fact that they’re worsted weight already gives them that chunky feel, but I also love the yarn used in the sample. It just feels like fall when you look at it. There are tweedy bits, brown tones, neutral tan tones, and a very classic structure. I love this sock in Knit Picks Wool of the Andes Worsted Tweed in Farmhouse Heather, Maple Heather, Olive Heather, Down Heather, and Aurora Heather.
They look very much like a traditional sock. There’s nothing trendy happening. It’s your basic sock, but it’s rustic and very cozy looking.
I also love the sample knit pictures where the cuff is folded over. I think that’s adorable.
I’m going to start wearing my socks that way sometimes, too, because sometimes you don’t want them all the way up. If you go to take off your boots and you’re wearing taller socks, you might want to scrunch them down. But in this case, I love that you can fold over what’s already the cuff without covering up all the texture of the sock.
This sock just feels like you’re going to go sit outside by the bonfire, sit outside at the cabin, or sit inside the cabin.
It’s a quintessential cabin sock.
And I could knit worsted weight socks all day long. They’re my favorite. This one really does feel like fall, and it has that heritage, classic feel to it.
The pattern calls for about 200 yards of yarn, which means this would be such a quick knit. And those are always good projects to have in the fall.
2. A Beautiful DK Weight Cable Sock
The next pattern is a beautiful cable knit pattern, and I love what you can do with cables when you move up to DK weight yarn. It’s the Thelxinoe Socks by Sari Nordlund.
With a worsted weight sock, I love the chunky look, but sometimes it feels like you’ve zoomed in a little too much when you want to do more with your cables. You don’t have as many stitches to work with, so you can’t necessarily add all those little lines and cable crossings.
That’s where DK weight socks are so good.
You’re still getting that thicker, chunkier sock, but you’re able to pick up on all those little details. You have more stitches, so you can practice different cables and add more intricate little cable braids.
That’s what I love about this particular sock. You get that quick knit satisfaction of a DK weight sock, and you’re still getting all the cables. The texture is all still there.
the yarn
Even the yarn in the sample feels rustic and like fall, and it’s gorgeous.
The pattern is written for approximately 328–416 yards of DK weight yarn. That’s a little more yarn than the worsted weight socks, but still not nearly as much as a fingering weight sock.
And because there are so many different cable crosses, you’re using a little more yarn than you might with a simpler DK weight sock.
If you love cables but want something a little more substantial than fingering weight, I think DK weight socks are such a good middle ground.
These socks would be rustic and cute in BC Garn Loch Lomond GOTS in the colors Moss, Pine, or Copper.
3. The Classic Everyday Fingering Weight Sock
For a classic, traditional fingering weight sock, my pick is the Leap Year Socks by Summer Lee.
I really, really like that, even though there aren’t cables going on here, you still get so much texture.
I also love the color and the tweedy yarn in the sample. And I think you could so easily swap in some more fall colors.
the yarn
You could have jewel tones, the colors of changing leaves, or just go with a beautiful fall tweed. My yarn pick for these are mixing up Knit Picks Stroll Fingering Tweed colors Interstellar, Persimmon Heather, Reindeer Heather, Affogatto, and Duchess Heather.
One of my favorite things to do when I’m looking at a sock pattern on Ravelry is to go through the project pages. You get to see so many different yarn choices and color choices instead of just the sample that the designer made.
You can even look at the yarns people have used. If I wanted to make this particular sock in tweed, for example, I could filter for tweed and get all kinds of ideas for different yarns people have chosen.
I call these more of a traditional everyday sock because they’re the kind of socks you can pull on and they work with almost any outfit.
You could go sporty. You could go classic.
And I love having socks like that in my wardrobe.
4. Ruusunen Socks by Rona Hakalo
My personal pick for the colorwork fall socks is the Ruusunen Socks by Ronja Hakalehto.
These are actually on my fall and winter capsule wardrobe knitting list. If you watched my capsule wardrobe video about finding my romantic English heritage style, you’ve already seen me gush about these.
I think they’re really pretty.
When I first looked at them, I had to zoom in because I was trying to figure out what the motif was. I initially thought there might be snowflakes on them, and snowflakes definitely lean more winter.
Although, we have had snowy Halloweens here in the Midwest before!
the yarn
I think these would be really pretty in so many different color combinations. You could easily do a dark brown and a light brown, or you could go with jewel tones. You could even do punchier colors like orange and crimson and really lean into all the colors of fall.
These are light fingering weight and use a US size 1 ½ needle. The designer recommends about 306 yards of yarn.
But I especially love the color used in the sample. It’s almost a plum brown, kind of a cocoa berry color.
When I was learning about my own color palette, that was one color that kept coming up, and I remember thinking, What is plum brown? I don’t even know what that means.
But this is such a good example of a berry brown. It doesn’t have too many orange tones. It’s a very cool toned brown.
And I love it. My vote again is Knit Picks Stroll Fingering Tweed with the colors Farmhouse Heather, Down Heather, and Garnet Heather.
5. Pumpkin Patch Cabin Socks
Okay, what gets my vote for the extremely heavily cabled worsted weight cabin sock?
The Pumpkin Patch Cabin Socks, designed by me.
I love this pattern.
From the side, you can obviously see that there’s a lot of cable going on. And from the front, you’ve got the two narrower cables and then the middle is more of a wider, larger cable that you’re crossing.
I call this the statement pattern, the heavily cabled sock.
There’s not much room to break things up. I have other cabin socks that I designed where I use different things to break up the cables, slip stitches, more purls, more knits, smaller cables, and different textures.
This one just feels like a big cable punch, in the best sort of way.
It’s got thick cables surrounding the whole leg until you get to the foot. And because the cables are so thick, I don’t think anyone wants to walk around on top of really thick cables!
So it’s stockinette stitch on the bottom half and cables on the top.
the yarn
The pattern calls for approximately 191–220 yards of worsted weight sock yarn.
The yarn I originally used has been discontinued, but one recommendation I will always make is Knit Picks Wool of the Andes Worsted. A bonus if it’s one of their heathered colors or a tweed. I like Maple Heather, Olive Heather, Burr Heather, Sarsparilla Heather, and Crane Heather.
And if you love this kind of cozy, heavily textured cabin sock, I have an entire Cabin Sock ebook with more of my worsted weight cabin sock designs.
If you’re in the mood to spend the fall knitting a whole rotation of cozy cabin socks, this would be a good place to start.
6. Harris Tweed Socks by Ali Green
I wanted to include one simpler, everyday sock that has a really quiet fall feeling.
It’s not in-your-face cables and colorwork. It just feels like a soft fall sock choice.
And that is the Harris Tweed Socks by Ali Green.
These are fingering weight, cuff down, and worked in the round. You only need about 370 yards of yarn, and they use a textured stitch pattern on the leg.
They have a French heel and a wedge toe, so if those aren’t the heel and toe methods you’re comfortable with, you can always swap those out for the ones you prefer.
This is a free pattern on Ravelry, and it has about 1,450 projects and hundreds of ratings. The overall rating is very encouraging, and the pattern clarity rating is especially good.
I also thought some of the project notes were really positive.
One knitter described the four row repeat as simple enough to knit while doing other things, but still interesting enough to keep the sock from feeling boring.
Another knitter gave the finished project five out of five for happiness.
And I think we all need one of those projects in our fall knitting lineup!
the yarn
Going back to that romantic English heritage, classic feeling that I’m looking for, I also love that this pattern was written in 2007.
It’s stood the test of time.
It just feels classic and timeless, and it definitely has that rustic feel to it.
And, of course, you can change how rustic it feels based on the yarn you’re using, the colors, whether it has tweed, and all those little details. My favorite is Knit One, Crochet Two Kettle Tweed in the color Mushroom.
7. Country Cabin Socks
And finally, the seventh cozy fall sock to knit is my signature cable knit cabin sock: Country Cabin Socks by This Yellow Farmhouse, or TYF Knits on Ravelry.
These use worsted weight yarn and are a cuff down cable sock.
They’re a little different from the Pumpkin Patch Cabin Socks because the cables are broken up by other lines of knits and purls, so they feel a little less chunky.
They’re a little more streamlined, and they feel a little more feminine to me.
But because they have the cables, textures, and tweed, they still feel like a bulky, chunky weight fall sock that you’d want to reach for when the weather gets cold.
These are one of my favorite sock designs that I’ve created.
I designed them several years ago, long before they were published, and since then I’ve learned a lot more about designing and teaching sock construction. I’ve had a few people ask for clearer walkthroughs of these, so I thought it was time to knit them again and make a new tutorial.
I love these socks enough to knit them again1
In fact, I knit up the first sock while working on the tutorial, so you can get a look at what they actually look like.
The cable goes all the way around the leg, and the cable is the same the whole way around. Then you have the heel flap and gusset.
To me, these actually feel like cabin socks.
They’re worsted weight, cozy, and chunky.
I even made a shorty version of my cabin socks at one point, and I just love wearing them. They’re my favorite sock. I will knit them for years and years and years.
And they’re just so much fun.
I love the different little milestones you complete as you’re knitting them. You finish the cuff, then you’re moving on and figuring out what the leg does. Then you’re trying to conquer the heel, and then you’re trying to get yourself back down to your stitch count.
Then you’re working the foot, and you’re just kind of calm and going and doing.
And then you get to the toe and it’s like:
Kitchener stitch. I’m done!
I don’t ever get second-sock syndrome with cabin socks because the whole thing was fun.
I liked knitting these so much that I even created a DK weight version in pink.
the yarn
These are the socks that started my cabin sock line, and I’m happy to be revisiting them as I create more designs. They’ll always be in rotation in my actual drawer of socks.
I don’t really have a box of socks. I have a drawer, and it has all my socks in it along with all my other clothes.
Anyway.
Too much information.
This fall. I’d love to knit these in Knit Picks Wool of the Andes Worsted Tweed in Down Heather, Picket Fence Heather, Seal Heather, Blanc de Blanc, and Crane Heather.
Bonus: Tweed Party Socks
Okay, I’m giving you a bonus sock because these are just so much fun!
I’m calling these the unexpected party socks instead of the bonus socks.
These are the Tweed Party Socks by Ailbíona McLochlainn.
To me, these feel like fall because, even though the colors in the sample might not necessarily scream fall, there’s the combination of the tweed yarn and all the different colors.
If you took bits from one sock and another sock and put them together, you could create some really fun fall combinations.
For example, you could take the yellow that’s in one color combination and pair it with the red from another. Or maybe that little bit of orange peeking out.
There are a lot of different fall color combinations you could create here.
It’s almost like fall colors in a bright, color blocked sort of way, with tweedy yarn.
And I think that’s really fun.
the yarn
This pattern calls for sport weight yarn, so that’s our outside-the-box bonus weight in this whole list. It uses approximately 383–437 yards of yarn.
This is a top down construction that’s worked in the round with a short row heel and short row toe.
The designer lists a whole bunch of different kinds of yarn, including Knit Picks Stroll Fingering Tweed but I also like these in Durable Soqs Tweed with the colors Hazelnut, Samba Spins, Bombay Brown, Golden Olive, and Fiesta Fusion.
There are also child sizes, so these could be a really fun option if you’re looking for something to knit for kids.
They’re just adorable.
Which Socks Will You Knit This Fall?
I hope these patterns get you excited to knit some different types of socks for fall.
Maybe you’ve only ever done cabin socks and you want to try some fingering weight socks.
Maybe you’ve only done traditional fingering weight socks and you want to try something DK weight.
Or maybe you’ve never tried a worsted weight sock and you’re ready for something really cozy and quick.
This is honestly a list that I want to knit all the socks from.
They’re so cozy looking.
And even if the designer didn’t use traditional fall colors, it’s so easy to swap those in and imagine how the pattern would look with fall colors and tweed.
So when you’re looking at these patterns, always look through all the pictures. But if it’s on Ravelry, definitely look through the different projects, too.
You get to see the pattern in so many more color choices than just the sample the designer made. You can see different yarns, different color combinations, and sometimes you find a version that makes you want to cast on immediately.
That’s one of my favorite parts of choosing a new knitting project.
I hope these give you some fun ideas for fall, whether you’re looking for a quick fingering weight project, a DK weight cable sock, or a chunky worsted weight cabin sock.
Because all of these just feel like fall to me.
And I think we’re ready for you, fall!
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