A flirty, lace sock designed to use up leftovers. A simple, mirrored lace pattern is highlighted by using yarns that move from light to dark. The main colors used are cream yarns with speckles, and the contrast colors are pinks and purples. You could also use just two colors or even just one.

This sock was inspired by the flirty and flighty Isabella, Catherine’s friend in Bath in Northanger Abbey.

When Catherine is staying at Northanger Abbey, she receives two letters -- one from her brother, James, about his broken engagement to Isabella and one from Isabella trying to get her to help patch it back up. Isabella has shamelessly flirted with Captain Tilney, trying for a better match than with Catherine’s brother after it turns out James won’t have a rich living.

Catherine says to Henry and Eleanor, “So much for Isabella … and for all our intimacy! She must think me an idiot, or she could not have written so. … She is a vain coquette, and her tricks have not answered.”

Yardage approx. 360 (380, 400) yds
This pattern has been professionally tech edited.