As a partner pattern to my 22.5 degree socks, I’m also working on this 45 degree sock pattern. While the 22.5 degree sock pattern has two heel options, this pattern almost doesn’t have a heel-the sock does bend and change direction, but it’s not through doing anything that would standardly be recognized as a heel. Instead, the leg of the sock is knit at a 45 degree angle, and then the foot is knit at a complementary 45 degree angle, so that they mitre together to form a 90 degree angle at the heel. As with the 22.5 pattern, I love the little rows of yarn overs, though here they’re even more pronounced as they’re every other row instead of every 4th.
This pattern has been so much easier to write up than the other, in part because of the heel. The previous pattern involved a lot of careful number crunching to make sure all the numbers in the pattern were correct, whereas this pattern could almost be written without numbers, until you get to the toe.
I’m planning on knitting up a few more pairs of these socks before opening this pattern up for test knitters, so that hopefully this will be a super smooth test knit!
