My second Knitted Wit skein is Death Valley. I enjoyed the colors on this one, and I find it fascinating how it pools at different numbers of stitches. My cuff pools so that the blues and greens form a stripe, and the pinks and browns form another stripe. In the decreases after the cuff there’s a portion where all the tan lines up, and the brown and green stripe on either side of that with a blue and pink stipe opposite. In the foot the pooling creates a narrow band of repeated stripes, mixing up the colors much more. It is a fun yarn.
I modified the pattern a bit more for these pairs. I found that the smallest cast on fits my ankle just fine, so I cast on with only 54 stitches, but I used 66 on the foot. I used a really narrow heel flap, so that I could have the same number of stitches on either side of the gusset decreases. I also used an odd number of stitches on the heel flap, with the eye of partridge stitch, which is a great combination.
I played yarn chicken again, to get two pairs out of this one skein. I’m getting pretty good at yarn chicken! I had about half as much yarn left after the Death Valley socks than I did after the Virgin Island ones:
The sheep are enjoying their new socks
These are my 35th and 36th pairs for this year!