Best way to Drape patterns in Illustrator

Hello,
I am working with some patterns, and I am trying to get them to follow the contour of my objects. For example, if I had a sock and I want my stitch pattern to follow the sock where it curves around a bend, and have the strokes stretch, when the sock get wider. I have tried playing with envelope options and I have had some success by making a large square with my pattern in it, rasterizing the pattern filled square and placing my  sock on top and doing-make with top obkect from the envelope options, but that didn't really change the direction for the stitches as much as I would have liked. It did scale them based on the width of the area, so that's something, but I feel there is a better way to do this...where I would have more control.
Does anyone else out there do this kind of work and have any suggestions or tutorials I could follow?
thanks
babs

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