I mentioned that I was working on writing up this sock pattern, and it’s currently being tested! It’s always so exciting to see everyone’s yarn choices, and to see the pattern that I dreamed up being implemented by others. I decided to knit a second pair of socks from this pattern-this time a kid’s pair from the extra small size.
One of the things I really like about this pattern is that it does cool things both with self striping yarn and with hand dyed skeins. With the self striping yarn you get shallow ‘v’s on either side of the foot, while with hand painted yarn you can either get perfect pooling or stripes. I’m still trying to figure out the exact repeat needed to get pooling on yarns other than the one I designed it for (Round Mountain Fiber’s Alder base) in size medium. The for a given yarn, pooling will depend on the size sock you’re knitting (number of stitches around) as well as on the gauge and the thickness/stretchiness of the yarn (how much yarn each stitch uses). Also, different dyers use different skein lengths, which also will effect how it pools. I think the pattern looks good with or without the pooling though, so I’m happy with the results regardless!