Last Thursday I started work on my first 12 in 2011 project, a pair of plain vanilla socks in Rabbitworks Fibre Studio Toe Jam in the popular Revenge colourway. As usual with socks for me, I’m using Wendy’s Generic Toe-Up Sock Pattern and short-rowing 10 stitches on each side of the toe and heel.

I bought this yarn at the Victoria Fibre Festival either two summers ago or three, and the skeins have been sitting in my stash looking gorgeous ever since. It seems that’s become the habit for what happens with most of my sock yarn.

I took this photo shortly after I started working on the socks. I’m now up to the ribbing on the first sock. I can’t remember the last time I worked this quickly on a pair of socks. I think it’s because socks are something I can knit while Charlie is snoozing on my lap, bigger projects tend to wake him up and then he tries to eat the yarn, needles, knitted fabric, row counter…. you get the idea. Plus I was home sick earlier this week so I had some knitting time but I didn’t want anything complicated to work on.