My third and final pair of tôt le matin socks for 2020. With these I decided to try a more open lace pattern. When rotated 180 it’s supposed to look like the eyes of tigers, but I think from this direction it looks a bit more like church steeples. I really fought with this pair of socks, and it went into time-out a few times. I kept trying to knit these while doing other things, and would end up with a different number of stitches. Part of that is the lace pattern itself-on the cuff there are large open holes made from multiple side-by-side yarnovers, which change the stitch count each row. On the foot I modified the lace pattern to have smaller holes there, so there were only two yarnovers next to each other on the foot.
On the whole I’m happy with how they turned out, though I’m not sure I’d use this pattern again. I think I’d need to come up with something more interesting for the sides of the sock, as to me they look a bit odd and boring from a side on view. I really wanted to try a larger lace pattern though, and I plan to use some more wider lace patterns on future socks. There are so many cool lace patterns out there, it seems a shame to limit myself to ones with 20 stitches or fewer!