Bold top-down sportweight socks boast a clingy lace rib pattern adorned with bobbles on the leg for an unusual spiky texture. The ribbing conceals calf shaping for a comfortable, non-binding fit, and the unconventional toe shaping flows smoothly out of the pattern on the instep.

This pattern is charted. Skills required to execute it include: casting on; knitting and purling; working in the round; following a lace chart; working a yarn over; working a bobble; and decreasing with ssk, k2tog, sk2p, s2kp2, and p2tog.