This was a design I created for Furryarns as part of a review of their MaineBear Sox 1 yarn. You can read the review on my website.

I have to admit that I was baffled about designing a pattern for this colorway. True it would have been easy to just do a simple stockinette stitch pattern where I knew I would get a beautiful striped sock with no pooling (I don’t like pooling) but then again, I’m not the kind of person who likes conventional. I love a challenge and these colors were that indeed! I tried a few designs that I felt failed miserably although someone else would have loved them and said I was crazy. I admit it. I am fussy to the point of crazy. That’s why they call me the Sockamaniac. I am maniacal when it comes to my work. I want perfection. So I wasn’t about to quit until I created a design that would bring out the beauty of that purple. I frogged many times but I never got discouraged. I finally designed a slipped stitch pattern that not only worked beautifully with these colors but I also got a very pleasant surprise; the sock looked like I did it using the shadow knitting technique which requires a few skeins of yarn in different colors, I only had to use just this one. What a treat indeed!