When I first sat down to create these socks, I knew I wanted to make something visually striking, symmetrical, and probably something geometric. However, as I was creating, this is what flowed out of my hands. As the waves took shape, I knew I wanted them to be not-quite-regular, with slight varying differences in width. This ended up creating a slight illusion of movement on the chart when viewed on screen. Perfect.

This pattern works best when using two highly contrasting yarns, and while I used a self striping yarn for one of mine, they will look equally stunning in two solid colors.

I have extensive notes in this pattern to help you get well-fitting colorwork socks. There are also links to two of my video tutorials for knitting stranded colorwork socks inside out, as well as the Ladderback Jacquard (LBJ) technique.

While the floats for most of this sock are short enough that you do not need to catch them or use LBJ, there are a couple of areas that can benefit from it. This would be a good time to learn or practice LBJ in a limited capacity.

Inverse color charts are included in a separate file.

Sizes: S (M, L) to fit foot circumferences 7 (8, 9)” or about 18 (20, 23) cm

Yarn:

MC: 50-70g of fingering weight yarn
CC: 50-55g of fingering weight yarn

Needles: US size 1 / 2.25mm

Notions: Tapestry needle, scissors, stitch markers

Gauge: 36 stitches and 42 rows to 4” (10cm) worked in stranded colorwork

Tester #1 (size S, 8 total repeats, plain toe) used: 17g MC and 13g CC for ONE sock
Tester #2 (size S, 9 total repeats, plain toe) used 30g MC and 24g CC for the pair
Tester #3 (size M, 10 total repeats, patterned toe) used: 46g MC and 34g CC for the pair
Tester #4 (size L, 9 total repeats, patterned toe) used: 64g MC and 51g CC for the pair