I stumbled upon this pattern through Instagram probably a year ago, and it’s been a slow journey to get to the point where I’ve actually been able to read the pattern, follow the steps, and make them! I’ve been posting the different techniques I’ve learned in dribs and drabs, so I feel like you are already familiar with these socks, but just bear with me one more time. This was the original driving force behind my adventures into sock knitting, and now I’m pretty much hooked on socks of all kinds.

• 1/3 skein of Diamond Select Footsie – a fingering weight (1) yarn (colour A: 2504 Beige)
• 1/3 skein of Diamond Select Footsie – a fingering weight (1) yarn (colour B: 2508 Taupe)
• 1/100 skein of Allison Barnes – a fingering weight (1) yarn (colour C: Coral)
• Size 1 (2.25mm) knitting needles (I used ChiaoGoo 60cm circulars)

Pattern by Geena at Inorgaknit

I love this pattern and I wanted my version to be as close to the original as possible, so I didn’t make any changes at all. It was a very very long journey to finishing, and I actually made three socks following this pattern. The first sock was made with double-pointed needles and ended up being a practice piece for the real pair that I made using magic loop. Like I mentioned in my earlier post, I found it too hard to avoid ladders with double-pointed needles, but with magic loops was smooth sailing.

I used the Figure 8 cast-on for these particular socks, and I thought it worked well. I kept having to re-do the first row because I would forget to knit through the back on the second needle. However, while casting on was new, the trickiest part of this pattern was definitely knitting intarsia in the round. After reading the tutorial page many times and watching YouTube videos, I’m still not sure I did it correctly, but the important thing is that we made it! (Actually, if you look really carefully, you can see that I was doing my yarn-overs incorrectly for all my purl stitches for one of the socks. We can keep this our little secret though, right?)

Anyways, just look at how cute those socks are! I’m still not over this pattern, and I don’t think I’ll ever be. It was 100% worth the effort they took. If I were to make them again, I would make the face portion extend higher up the foot, but other than that, I don’t think I’d change anything!

Until next time, happy crafting!