However, my son is nine, with the coltish legs of a child, and so the socks did not fit, even with three re-knittings.

This ends well, though. I showed them to his kindergarten teacher, and they fit her tiny little feet perfectly. It was really funny. I showed her one sock, and was talking about re-knitting it again, and, first off, she didn’t hand the sock back- she held onto it,- and second, she was coming up with all the reasons I should NOT rejigger the pattern, but should resign myself to finding a person with small feet- such as herself.

She is a wonderful teacher, a wonderful person, and I am so happy that I was able to make something special that pleases her. I hope it makes her very long days much better.

It’s a lovely pattern. The texture is marvelous. Thank you for sharing your pattern.

sincerely,
ari

I have a question for you– I’m working on modifying the pattern to be top-down with a heel flap but still using the quilted lace pattern. I was wondering if it would be OK to share my modifications on my blog (with credit & link to you of course, and without reprinting the lace directions — just describing how I changed the heel & toe)?