I enthused already about patchwork knitting, now I even found an instruction for socks in this technique – and what for socks!
In fact I’m not one for sock knitting but here I’m really tempted ;-)
Links:
Module Sock – click there onto the same photo that you see here above, behind lies the PDF file with the instruction
Instructions for knitting the modules:
Potholder knitting (English)
Potholder knitting (German)
Here at unikatissima: Patchwork Knitting