Another two pairs of socks done! I stuck with Shannon’s pattern Short Attention Span, and the yarn this time is Knitted Wit’s Wrangell-St. Elias National Park yarn. I can’t show you both socks at once, because someone bought the first pair from me before I’d had a chance to finish the second. I stuck with similar pattern modifications as I did with Death Valley-a longer heel flap, an odd number of stitches on the top and bottom of the foot, and fewer stitches on the cuff than for the foot. I lost at yarn chicken on the second pair of socks, and ended up doing the last five rows of both toes in th Virgin Islands yarn. I was going to rip out the toes plus a few rows but everyone at the yarn store told me to just use the second color. Even though the two colors are quite different, it isn’t at all obvious, so I suppose they were right (though I know my mum wouldn’t have given me that advice!).
I borrowed the sock blocker from a friend at the yarn store for these pictures. I think I might need to invest in a pair of my own, because the socks look so nice on them!