Are there buy buttons on the side of the page? If so, you've caught this pattern on one of the handful of days every year when it's available! If not, read on for details of where it went and what to do if you want to be notified the next time it's available.

A few years ago I got overwhelmed by my back catalog, retired most of my earlier work, and launched Tiny Nonsense. That gave me space to make Cool New Stuff! But some people missed the earlier things, so I make many of the retired patterns available for a few days once or twice a year.

• If you see the buy buttons on this page, you’ve caught it on one of the days it’s available! You can buy it just like usual.

• If you don’t see the buy buttons on this page, then it’s not currently available. It will probably be available the week after Thanksgiving and for a few days in June or July.

• If you want to hear when the retired patterns come back, subscribe to the mailing list or patreon, or keep an eye on my instagram.

The tide comes in and it goes out, day after day, year after year, with absolutely no regard for you or your plans. It does what it pleases. You learn to work around it, or you get soaked. I’m honestly still not sure if that’s comforting or infuriating. But I did finally learn not to get stuck on the rocks when the tide comes in.

When you make these, you’ll work the first half of the chart three times, then the half of the chart three times. That creates the stately progression you see in the pictures. But, unlike the tide, these can be changed a bit if you want. You can work each group of rows a different number of times (try twice if you like short socks or four times if you like them tall) or even repeat the first half over and over on the leg and the last half over and over on the foot. They’ll look great no matter what!