After a rough few weeks, I'm picking up my life and my knitting needles and getting back into the nice rhythmic comfort of knitting. I knit a pair of mittens during our travels to Texas for my mother's funeral, but I didn't like the way they turned out so I've fogged them. I really needed something "easy" to work on and felt like everything I had planned or started was just too much.

Nevertheless, I picked up the Monkeys I've been working on and to my own surprise, flew right threw them. In a matter of a week I managed to race up the foot, turn the heel, and finish the leg. I'll finish the ribbing tonight and have some beautiful socks to wear tomorrow.

The pattern is addictive. It's no wonder there are already 4007 pair posted in -Ravelry. That's a lot of socks my friends! I did join the party a little late in the game, but it's a classic pattern so I'm sure another pair of Monkeys will be welcomed.

Pattern: Monkey
Source: Knitty Winter 2006 by Cookie A
Yarn: Seacoast Handpainted Superwash Sock
Needles: US 1 (2.25 mm)
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I must admit, I dislike looking at photos of feet when they are taken from the top like this photo. It's so much prettier to see them from the front, like here in this photo of Zarah's Monkeys. I guess I'll have to have someone else take photos of my feet when these babies are all done.