October marks the annual knitting celebration of all things footie — Socktoberfest. Today is the beginning of the sixth annual month-long sock bash that Lolly has hosted, and we are all excited to kick it off on the right foot:

As you most likely know already, socks are my favorite thing to knit.

I knit them for myself.

I knit them for other people.

I knit with intricate patterns and I knit pretty plain pairs.

I knit with variegated yarn and I knit with solid yarn. Sometimes I knit with two different yarns at once.

And sometimes I even manage to finish multiple pairs on the same day.

I have a number of socks under way already, and many more exist only in my head (and in the form of potential socks in my yarn cupboard).

I’d like to finish a pair a week — one for each weekend of the month. How many do you think I’ll actually finish?

Or, how many new pairs do you think I’ll cast on?