Michelle knits . . . in the new year

So I think if this blog is going to be anything in the new year, it's going to be exclusively a knitting/craft blog again. We'll see. It's not because I feel like it's wrong or straying from the content of my blog to talk about non-knitting things, but rather, I think there might be other places I want to put those things, if anywhere, in the new year. My new favorite thing to say: "in the new year." Like, "In the new year...I will have more potlucks" or "Let's see each other more in the new year" or "Let's see more movies in the theatre in the new year."

This, my knitting friends, is my first sock of the new year. The pattern is here, I cast on during my Christmas day layover in Vegas, and here is where it's been at for about a week. I've got three balls of this color (purchased almost a year ago -- at the same time that I bought the yarn to make the Broadripple socks and the Lacy Wings socks), and I'm excited to have enough yarn to make these loooong! I've done 12 repeats of the pattern (instead of the suggested five), and I think it might finally be as long as I want it. Perhaps I'll start the heel today...