No splitting so that alone gets my 'this is my sock yarn' vote. I downloaded and made the watermelon socks crochet pattern from this website with the blueberry colorway in XL, I have a 10.5 women's shoe size. When I make these again, and I will, I will do the L size of that pattern due to the generous stretch of the yarn. The XLs fit, I would just prefer them snugger, more snug? It did take a bit more than one skein for the XL size, my gauge swatch was on point. Good pattern, easy to understand, wonderful yarn to work with and the socks are comfortable which can be an issue with crochet socks. I'll get a lot of use out of these and will def be back for more of this yarn.