I still have a few more gifts to get through on my 2008 holiday recap.

On December 22nd I finished up my father-in-law’s Christmas socks.  These photos are very boring because, let’s be honest, they are boring, all-brown, all-stockinette stitch socks.

Pattern:  N/A  I used a basic sock “recipe” from a booklet I got from my LYS many years ago.  2×2 rib for the cuff, stockinette leg and foot, flap-style reinforced heel with gusset, and regular (wedge?) toe.

Size:  64 sts around, and his foot is 9″ around and 10.5″ long.

Yarn:  Regia 4ply in color # 1231 (brown), 2 50g balls

Needles: 2.5mm dpns

Dates:  October 27 – December 22 2008 (but only took so long because I waited for my in-laws to get back from Florida to try on the first socks for size).

Modifications:  None.

As usual you can find my finished (and unfinished!) projects in my “projects” page by clicking the tab up at the top of every page on my blog, and I also have this project in my Ravelry notebook here.

A quick wrap in a care label and one yarn baggie later, and this gift was ready to go too!  Once this was done it meant I was finally able to start my sister-in-law’s mittens.  I finished these socks around 11:30pm on the 22nd, so the Christmas gift mittens were only started on December 23rd.  No pressure!