This is a cuff down colorwork sock pattern with a sole gusset that depicts the Chinese character for ‘forest.’ The pattern was created as a birthday gift for a very special person, and the tentative pattern name was Black Forest (how boring!). In doing research on the Black Forest, the following description was found:

“this place has said to have been haunted for centuries, since long before the Brothers Grimm wrote down all of its happenings. Wizards, sorcerers, dwarves, nymphs and even Freischützen — marksmen aided by the devil — wander about the Black Forest, steadfastly maintaining it as a sanctuary for the abnormal”

The pair pictured have a personalization knit on the sole using my knitted alphabet charts. The pattern is written with the salt and pepper design extending to the toe.