These socks are made out of Knitted Wit’s Joshua tree National Park yarn. They have the same ‘feature’ as several of the other Knitted Wit skeins I used this summer-the yarn changes color over the course of the skein. If it were a gradient yarn, that would be great, but I’m less convinced when it’s just one of the colors dropping out of the mix and becoming white. For Knitted Wit yarns, I’ve taken to knitting the first cuff, cutting the yarn, knitting the whole second sock, and then coming back to the first sock. That way the cuffs typically match (more or less), though it can result in a sharp color change on the first sock. I did that with this pair and with the previous knitted wit socks-the blue and pink on a black background.
For a pattern I did the little diamond outlines again. The two differences this time is that I ended the diamonds at the gusset, rather than continuing them to the toe, and I decreased the number of stitches after the cuff. It was a bit tricky to figure out how exactly to do the decreases without messing up the diamond pattern, but I’m happy with the result. I do like having some decreases or ribbing, as people’s ankles are typically narrower than their legs.