Arete is an ankle sock, with a neat, turn-over, lace cuff and a Norwegian style heel.

The pattern gives the instructions for a two-colour version with contrasting cuffs, heels and toes as well as how to set up helical stripes if you fancied a bit more detail.

When I decided to name these socks Arete, Lucy immediately came up with the idea of dyeing a Sea-Shell Collection in a gorgeous BFL and bamboo mix that showed off the subtle shell-like colours to perfection. We decided on a set of 2 x 50g which would be enough for either the two colour or helical striped versions and are available from lucylocketland.co.uk.

We used commercial sock yarn on the sample helical pair to show how they would look in an alternative yarn – again two 50g balls would be enough to make a two-coloured helical version.