Knitting Olympics Day 12 - The beginning of the final pair!

I've started my final pair of Olympic socks. They were originally designed as Hot Rod socks (Caleb even mentioned that they looked like race cars), but they also fit nicely with the Olympic Flame don't you think? I'm knitting them in Dale Baby Ull which is the first yarn I ever used for socks and I had forgotten how much I like this yarn. The flame design is my own and if I take good enough notes on how I'm knitting these, I might try to write up the pattern and post it on the blog next week. I will work the heel and gusset in the red, then the flame pattern will get reversed and the toe will be black. At least that's the plan for right now.

There have been some questions as to whether or not I have been sleeping during the Knitting Olympics and if my whole house has fallen into disrepair. Fear not, I'm sleeping at night (although I've been dreaming about sock yarn. A lot.), the dishes are done, the kitchen is clean, I did all the laundry in the house Sunday and Caleb is clean and fed. I must give credit to Mickael, who has been so amazing and supportive of my Olympic efforts though. He actually ran the vacuum cleaner the other day and keeps telling me I need to get knitting! I'm not sure if he thinks its actually a competition or what is going on in his head, but he's being really sweet and encouraging despite the fact that he is starting to fear a possible sock avalanche. I think I'll have to knit him a pair of socks when the Olympics are over and of course Caleb has noticed that none of the recent socks seem to be for him...