Wanna Bee is an excellent way to show off your hand-painted and kettle dyed sock yarns. It’s a mock honeycomb, a variation on traditional smocking patterns, a stranded structure aping the insectile geometry of the honeybee genus Apis.

Wanna Bee has been used for KALs at Lancaster Yarn Shop, and was written specifically for their in-house, locally dyed sock yarns. It’s a great pattern for the knitter with a sock or four under their belt, or for the ambitious beginning sock knitter.