I’ve been playing around with traveling stitches again. For this pair I couldn’t quite decide what pattern I wanted down the front, which is why the sock alternates between two different patterns. I think I like the open lozenge better, but I’m not sure. It was fun to do both, as it made the pattern repeat longer (and thus more interesting). I did my standard calf shaping at the back, so that the cuff is bigger around than the ankle. I hadn’t planned what was going to happen to the side design on the foot until I got to the heel and realized that it was too wide to have continue all the way down the foot, but I think it merges into the smaller design relatively gracefully?
I made these socks as a gift for a friend, as congratulations for getting her PhD. Since that was about two years ago, she gets a fairly fancy pair of socks!