By the time I finished doing the three pairs of socks out of mosaic 2, I realized that I had skipped mosaic 1. For the first pair I went back to the pink and red knitpicks, and begun. I decided to experiment with the stripes across the bottom. I figured out about how many rows, on average, the mosaic knitting actually had in comparison to how many it ‘should’, and from that determined that if I didn’t go across the bottom of the foot for every other pink row, I should get a flat sock. It worked!
I decided to do a rainbow pair (knitpicks again, sparkly stroll and chroma) and see if I couldn’t figure out those decreases after the heel. Instead of doing them every other row, I went with every fourth row, and that seemed to work well. It ends up making the decreases cover more length of the foot than they normally would, but it worked. In future versions of this I decided to decrease the length of the heel flap (I typically use quite a long heel flap anyway) to help accommodate this.
This rainbow pair was the pair where I learned that, if I wanted the stiches inside the boxes to pop, I needed to purl the second row of them. So, just for the stitch inside that box, on the second color row, I purl that stitch instead of knitting it. The pink and red socks have it knitted, and it just doesn’t pop nearly as much.