The tide comes in and it goes out, day after day, year after year, with absolutely no regard for you or your plans. It does what it pleases. You learn to work around it, or you get soaked. I’m honestly still not sure if that’s comforting or infuriating. But I did finally learn not to get stuck on the rocks when the tide comes in.

When you make these, you’ll work the first half of the chart three times, then the half of the chart three times. That creates the stately progression you see in the pictures. But, unlike the tide, these can be changed a bit if you want. You can work each group of rows a different number of times (try twice if you like short socks or four times if you like them tall) or even repeat the first half over and over on the leg and the last half over and over on the foot. They’ll look great no matter what!