Great pattern from Laura Swift -- socks & Greek vases. You can get a copy of the pattern here.
My practice socks, made with white and green yarn leftover from another project.
They follow partly Laura's pattern, but also a few patterns from Barbara G Walker's essential Mosaic Knitting.
What did we learn from this, kids? That you can't mix two-stranded colourwork and mosaic knitting in the same piece. You can, I suppose, if you're stubborn and plan for it, but my basic sock pattern meant that the gauge went all out of whack. So I ended up just knitting in rando two-colour geometric bands.
Eventually I got my act together and made up a pair of ancient-Greek flavoured socks in orange and black (Opal superwash sock wool). I worked patterns randomly from Laura's chart, and deliberately made no effort for the socks to match. I use my own sock knitting pattern than the one suggested.
These were knitted up with 2mm needles, 1mm on the ribbing and heel; using my usual sock pattern to fit my foot (a UK6/EU39/US8) -- with the two strands they came up a bit snugger than usual, so next time around will use probs 3mm.
Quality control courtesy of Tiny Toast.
Love these! I made a couple of vase hats and I get very happy when I see other Greek pottery designs, they are really so evocative for knitting. I just started learning to do socks so it's nice to see some experienced socks inspo too. https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/penelope-vase-hat https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/pindar-vase-hat