This pattern came about as an easy textured pattern designed to make the most of both plain, one color yarn as well as that lovely hand dyed stuff that you fall in love with but then knits up with unpleasant color pooling. The pattern is written out and charted and is really easy to
memorize yielding a much more complex appearance than its simple repeats would have you guess. A bit of care must be taken in setting up the heel flap, but after that, it’s clear sailing! I would say that this pattern is appropriate for those that have made at least one or two pairs of plain socks and understand sock construction basics.

Note: I knit socks on 4 DPNs at a time, I have attempted to generalize my instructions for folks who use other needle set ups.