I was so excited about this pattern that I had to do my modification of it first! I wanted to make the top of the flower a different color from the leaves, which meant that the pattern needed to be changed (green yarn is knitpicks glimmer stroll, pink is knitpicks stroll, and white is cascade heritage sock yarn). I also knitted it from the top to the bottom, instead of bottom up, in order to have the flowers vertical when the sock is worn. I was super pleased with how these ones turned out. I keep meaning to write this one up into an actual pattern, so that others might be able to make them too! I imagine them with each row of flowers being different colors, or even just with a higher contrast flower color. Still, I have a schedule to keep if I’m going to get through all of these patterns, so we continue…
This is the pattern as it is written in the book (blue is Regia stretch sock, white is cascade heritage sock yarn). To me, in this orientation, they look like men shrugging their shoulders. I misjudged the pattern slightly-I thought I could get away with never doing a row of white on the bottom, and so the tops of the socks are longer than the bottom. I’m not thrilled about that, I’d rather have the bottoms longer than the tops, but I think it works. I do really like the pattern.
