Simple (but colorful) socks

[firstfrost]

Probably the last pair of Christmas socks for this year.  This yarn is the "Phoenix" colorway from Twisted Fiber Arts - it was a fundraiser after their studio burned.   I basically made the pattern up as I went along using a simple plait cable and eye-of-partridge heel flap - I started a different pattern that involved eyelets at the color transition, but they weren't clear or even enough and I didn't like how it was going.  (I'll have to use that pattern on a striped yarn with less shaded transitions.)

I like the color continuation on the heel flap, but I don't like the jump along the top of the foot; I guess that means I should have used a short row heel instead

Comments

[kelkyag]

Shiny loud feet!

How would a short-row heel have helped with the color transition on the top of the foot? Does that have you do the heel a little at a time while continuing the top instead of all at once? Or would that have involved using the toe color for the heel?