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I finally finished Kevin's Baby Ull socks yesterday evening. I've decided to call them Engagement Socks since I started them about a month after we got engaged and they have entwined cable circles down the legs.

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They look more like circles when the fabric is stretched.

What is sort of embarrassing about these socks though is that they took me about 3 months to complete. Yes, they were on size 0s, but still. Three months for a pair of socks?! What is even worse is that I just looked on my Sock Gallery page and it has been exactly 6 months since my last completed pair of socks. I knit 4 pairs of socks in the first 6 months of 2006, and 1 pair in the last six months. That's only 5 pairs of socks in a year. I'm ashamed to call myself a sock knitter.

So aside from my more general New Year's resolutions to eat healthier and exercise, my number 1 knitting resolution is to knit more socks. Now, I'm not going to go crazy and suggest knitting a pair a month, but I do want to beat 5 a year (even if that's only 6 for '07). I cast on for a new pair last night, and I have yarn in my sock basket for 4 more pairs (one pair was even started looooong ago from the Sock Kit Swap. I have 2 socks on 2 circs and have even gotten beyond the toes!).

2007 is the year of more socks!

Of course socks shouldn't and won't preclude other knitting...

I've been making some good progress on Lilith. **Knock on wood** but I only screwed up one row of YOs and it was near of the end of the row, so I decided to leave it. Since the pattern is a 10 row repeat, I try to complete a full repeat every time I pick it up. So far I've completed 7 of 28 repeats.

Today is a getting back into work day (bleh!). I need to complete the syllabus and create the website for my class which starts on the 16th. I also need to make my poster for a conference on the 25th. I don't think those tasks will be too hard to complete today and will be a nice easing into work. Of course, once those tasks are out of the way, there's nothing on the top of the "to do" list above "write dissertation" (which I've been trying to avoid!).

Oh, and finally... thank you to everyone who's been leaving comments. Ignoring your email for a week doesn't allow for being easily able to reply to everyone individually. Maybe once I clear out the spam and student whining, I can find the good emails!