Mosaic 15: Fishes!

This pattern apparently looks like a variety of animals to various people. I see fish, but others see birds. The purple heathered yarn is knitpicks stroll, while the white is cascade heritage. I did the reinforced bottom again.

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This time I had the transition between the top of the sock and the bottom happen halfway around. Generally I'll carry the pattern over into the bottom half of the sock, by half a pattern on either side. So, for example, if the pattern has an eight stitch repeat, I'll do an extra four stitches of the pattern on each side. The trick with doing that is that after the heel the white yarn is still at the top of the heel, so when I want to start the pattern (with the white) four stitches earlier, I have to cheat so that I don't have a long float across the back for those four stitches. I could, of course, cut the yarn and restart it in the desired place, but then I'd have more ends to sew in! So I cheat by twisting what would be the long float in with the white stitches, like is done in traditional two color knitting techniques.