I have made many, many crochet afghans out of motifs. I have never constructed anything similar with knitting. These socks are created toe-up with two hexagonal flower motifs attached at three sides. Two little triangles fill in the gaps at the sides. A pentagonal flower motif forms the heel, with a short gusset above.
I found some great alternate instructions on Ravelry which helped me figure out how to eliminate all the seaming in this sock. The motifs were cast on provisionally, and the little gap-triangles were formed with short rows.
Some lessons learned with these socks: long floats are ok! My stranded tension came out better when I wasn't putting the knitting down every four stitches to twist yarn strands around each other. I tacked some of the floats together when I wove in my ends.
And crochet can be used to bind off a sock. Nice and stretchy! Who knew?
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