Peer Pressure

I started this sock many moons ago.



I mean look at it- don't you just want to eat it?
Anyway, I just went to a local knitting group thing and a couple of the ladies were knitting socks and I just thought oh look how fun with all the cool colors and they were talking about how quick they are - and it made me kind of have an itch to finish this (and its mate - maybe).

And also I bought some jeans which has absolutely nothing to do with this sock but was also a result of peer pressure. Two girlfriends and I went jeans shopping last weekend and tried on 70 gazillion pairs of oh so expensive but they'll absolutely perk up your rear and make you look 7 feet tall jeans. But they didn't really work. (NO Really?) I still looked 5'2" and I think the having 3 kids thing has taken away any possibility of perkiness. So we thanked the kind saleslady after our 2 hour dressing room fashion parade and left with just the nice cups of water with lemon that she had brought us.
But today, I visited one of the friends from the jeans outing and she had picked up 5 pairs of jeans at a not so fancy store and had gotten the 5 pairs for what one would have cost at the other store and I suddenly felt the need to resume the quest for a cute, butt perking pair for myself. And so I feel like I am maybe in 9th grade and I just want to do and wear what everyone else is and then I was thinking that I kind of knit like that. Is that Okay - that we all knit the same thing? Is that part of the appeal? Belonging to something?

Peasant

My husband insists this is the goofiest looking hat he's ever seen.
I like it. So I'm going to wear it - I'm all about the goof.


Just Like A Peasant Cap

Call 911

So I was in the shower and all of a sudden I hear blood-curdling screaming coming from outside the door - I jump out of the shower and grab a towel thinking that someone has cut off a finger or started a small fire - I tear open the door and stand dripping wet to find my younger two screaming with tears streaming down their faces - "WHAT HAPPENED?" I yell -

"We accidentally pressed rewind and we can't get the movie to play the right way again!" wails my 5 year old.

Huh?


Here are two works in progress - both Zephyrstyle patterns.
Juliet
I'm using some Red Heart Soft Yarn - It was super super cheap some time and I picked it up. Sorry for the gross mirror.


Tree Jacket
The yarn is KnitPicks Andean Silk that used to be Ariann - she'd been sitting atop my yarn tower since October of 2006 and I thought it was time to finish her or just put her out of her dusty misery - so she's coming back as tree jacket - this is going much more quickly.

Birthday

My oldest son is turning 9 on Monday - I know it doesn't sound like a big number, but it's half way to 18 - how did that happen? Another 9 and he can fly off in any direction he pleases - wasn't he just in sweet little sweaters like this?

I better teach him how to fly right.