I’ve been in our attic a lot over the last year.  It might not sound particularly glamorous and to be honest, it wasn’t - but I found inspiration for a pair of socks!

In amongst the boxes of stuff was an abacus that has been passed down the generations in our family - I can remember playing with it, I remember my brother having it too, and my girls loved being able to move the beads from one side of the bar to the other.  Such a simple thing, but excellent for a baby’s hand-eye co-ordination!

It was those beads that caught my eye and the pattern for this pair of socks formed in my mind even as I stood in the attic with the abacus in my hands.

The Abacus socks are simple socks, and knitting them will be excellent for your hand-eye co-ordination as well … the benefits of the wooden abacus are not confined to our family!