Use your two most uncooperative variegated yarns for these socks, or maybe those that look like twins separated at birth, – and suddenly all the unsightly blotches you would get from each of them alone blend into nice ripples, hardly ever disturbed by heel and toe shaping.

Techniques used:

• Elastic Crocheted Cast-on (explained in pattern)

• modified HG heel with shaped short-row heel turn

• German short-rows (most short-row methods will do)

• slip-stitch knitting (for reinforced heel turn)

• yarnover increases

• Star-like toe