I started these socks last August. Then in September I started a new job (in a new career) and didn’t have the mental capacity to work on these socks. They’re Stephen West’s 2025 Surprise Sock Along, and he included everything but the kitchen sink in this pattern.

I just signed up for his next surprise sock, with the first 1/4 of the pattern being released July 28. That gave me the push to want to get these socks finished before then. I highly doubt I’ll get all these ends woven in too, but you never know. Luckily I don’t need as much mental bandwidth to weave in ends as knitting this pattern takes for me.