First FO of the New Year


Contrefort Socks, pattern by Debbie O'Neill. Yarn is Trekking Maxima. I've just cast on about a billion new projects, so it may be a little while before I have another FO. Lots of fun things are in the works or in various stages of planning, so more to come!

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