The first mosaic I ever designed from scratch, that is. Why I feel the need to knit Christmas trees in July I don't know, but I was overcome with the urge to knit trees. There are some things you have to keep in mind when designing mosaic patterns. I had to design the trees upside down, to make sure they would be rightside up on the socks. I also made sure I never had to slip more than three stitches at once-that seems to be the limit that Barbara has set for her patterns, so I stuck with it. The major trick though, is that with mosaic knitting, you're slipping stitches to pull the color from the previous row up into this row. So if the color isn't in the previous row, you can't pull it up.
The green yarn is Knitpicks alpaca sock yarn, and the white is Dye For Me dancing toes. I ended the socks with 8 yards of the green left-perfect! I think I have enough white for only one more pair of alpaca mosaic socks. I may have to go in search of more white alpaca sock yarn!