On My Needles

I started a pair of holiday-ish socks before the Winter Craft Fair that we do, and I'm finally getting around to finishing them!  For me, there's nothing like picking up an old project - I come at it with all new energy and it always feels like I'm speeding along compared to how fast I was going before.  Ah, satisfaction! 

These are done in our natural worsted, and the pattern is a mutt - the top is raglan-style, just adapted from sweater patterns; the body is a bobble design from a sock book that my mother-in-law gave me last year; the heel is a standard short-row heel; the foot is the bobbles pattern without the bobbles (if that makes sense!); and the toe is a standard star toe.  They're a women's size 7-9.  I like how they feel like a Christmas stocking, without all the Christmas colors...  Anyway, the first one, pictured below, is done, and the second is to about the mid-foot (knit top-down).