When I was 16, I stumbled across the book The Annotated Alice by Martin Gardner. I’d always liked Alice in Wonderland, but that book created an Alice fanatic. When I started knitting socks and stockings using the helical technique, I knew I had to write out a pattern and thought that, in the right colors and knit as knee socks – these helix socks look like the striped stockings that Alice wears on her trip Through the Looking Glass.

This pattern/recipe assumes you have some experience with helix knitting. The pattern includes 8 sizes: Child (XSM, SM, M, L, XL, XXL, XXXL) that can easily be adjusted to your exact size, gauge and measurements.