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Westknits Year of Socks 2026

Welcome to Westknits Year of Socks 2026! I can't wait for another year filled with colorful sock designs. You will receive an automatic PDF update at the beginning of each month, starting with the first pattern called Smock o'clock Socks in January. The January sock will require just one skein of solid or semi-solid fingering weight sock yarn. The other designs will vary between one-color, two-color, or multi-color stashbusting socks for leftovers and mini skeins. Some designs will also feature self-striping yarn. Stock up on your favorite sock yarns for the year and get ready for lots of different techniques like smock stitches, slip stitches, cables, shorts, a bit of brioche, modular knitting, simple relaxing patterns, and more!

Check out all of the socks featured in the previous Year of Socks 2025 collection here! The 2025 individual pattern PDFs will be available on January 7 if you have your eye on any of those single patterns from the 2025 collection.
https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/sources/westknits-year-of-socks-2025/patterns

RAVELRY GROUP
Join the Ravelry group and share your sock knitting progress each month in the discussion threads for each new pattern!
https://www.ravelry.com/groups/westknits-year-of-socks-2026

SOCK YARN
Stash up on sock yarn with our super soft hand dyed yarn called West Wool HEX.

West Wool HEX
85% Superwash Merino Wool, 15% Nylon
437yds / 400m = 100g
Westknits Year of Socks 2026

Welcome to Westknits Year of Socks 2026! I can't wait for another year filled with colorful sock designs. You will receive an automatic PDF update at the beginning of each month, starting with the first pattern called Smock o'clock Socks in January. The January sock will require just one skein of solid or semi-solid fingering weight sock yarn. The other designs will vary between one-color, two-color, or multi-color stashbusting socks for leftovers and mini skeins. Some designs will also feature self-striping yarn. Stock up on your favorite sock yarns for the year and get ready for lots of different techniques like smock stitches, slip stitches, cables, shorts, a bit of brioche, modular knitting, simple relaxing patterns, and more!
Smock o'clock Socks
Sock Smorgasbord
Balloon Festival Socks

9 patterns to go!

Your new sock pattern will be sent via an email update every month.

Cabled Column Socks

MAY'S YEAR OF SOCKS PATTERN

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Briornate socks

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The Mohair Mobile Shawl was inspired by the architectural sculptures of Alexander Calder. Choose 200g of fingering weight yarn for the main color. The main color acts as the frame or anchor of the palette. Add five contrasting colors of lace weight mohair silk, 25g each color, like West Wool Glowhair. The mohair colorpops float throughout the fabric with ethereal stripes and fluffy marled sections. Sometimes mohair is used on its own and other times one strand of mohair is held together with the fingering weight main color.

The modular shawl begins in the center with a fun I-cord and short row detail. Stitches are picked up for tiny bobble stripes and mohair marled ridges. Then, the shawl decreases toward the top center with marled garter stitch and cables. A final border is knitted sideways with short rows, cables, and mohair mesh sections. Each section includes step by-step video tutorials demonstrating all of the techniques to knit this wearable work of art.
Finished measurements
71″ / 180cm wingspan length, 28″ / 70cm along center spine. Measurements taken after blocking.

Yarn
Fingering weight + lace weight mohair silk

Yardage
MC - 874yds / 799m
CC1 - 229yds / 210m
CC2 - 229yds / 210m
CC3 - 229yds / 210m
CC4 - 229yds / 210m
CC5 - 229yds / 210m

Needles

US 4 / 3.5mm circular in 40″ / 100cm length or size needed to obtain gauge

1 spare circular needle the same size or smaller for holding sts and for a 3-needle bind off

Notions
4 stitch markers, 1 split ring or locking stitch marker, 10 split ring markers (optional), cable needle, tapestry needle

Gauge
22 sts & 44 rows = 4″ / 10cm in garter stitch after blocking holding 1 strand fingering weight wool together with 1 strand lace weight mohair silk

Westknits Workshops
Venture into the world of Westknits with my series of online workshops. Westknits Workshops can be watched as many times as you like and at your own pace as you learn new knitting skills. Sign up here!
https://www.westknits.com/collections/workshops

Westknits Kits
We have dozens of curated color palettes to inspire your next Westknits project. Collect a Westknits kit at Stephen & Penelope! We ship worldwide!
https://www.stephenandpenelope.com/pages/westknits-kits

Westknits on YouTube
Check out my videos on YouTube for some helpful tutorials and an exciting insight into the woolly world of Westknits!
https://www.youtube.com/@StephenWest
West Wool HEX (85% Superwash Superfine Merino Wool, 15% Nylon; 437yds / 400m per 100g skein)
MC - Westerpark

Wool Glowhair (64% Mohair, 36% Mulberry Silk; 229yds / 210m per 25g ball)
CC1 - Birch Tree (lightest)
CC2 - Dutch Sky
CC3 - Greykjavik
CC4 - Canal House
CC5 - Copenhagen (darkest)

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STEPHEN WEST

Stephen West’s prolific shawl designs and innovative use of color have made him an internationally recognized designer.

Stephen was born and raised in Tulsa, Oklahoma; moved to Chicago, Illinois for school, and later moved to Amsterdam, Netherlands, to study choreography. Stephen's designs have been knitted by thousands of knitters all around the world. He currently lives in Amsterdam where he co-owns Stephen & Penelope, a yarn boutique in the city center.

In 2019 Stephen and his business partner Malia Mae Joseph realized a long-held dream by launching their first yarn brand, West Wool.

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Mohair Mobile Shawl

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Westknits Year of Socks 2026

Cabled Column Socks

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BALLOON FESTIVAL SOCKS

Mohair Mobile Shawl

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