In a Slump

I'm kind of in a knitting slump. I've had some life things going on and haven't been knitting much in the evenings because my spouse has been traveling and I'm sort of, well, REALLY BONE TIRED in the evenings. I've been going to bed at about 9:00. Plus, hey, no spouse at home, I've been having a bit of wine. I think I've shared with you all (maybe in my hundred things?) that I can't knit under the influence. (I just typed, "I can't drink under the influence." Maybe I should state right here that I am not, as we speak under the influence. Right now, I mean. At this second.)

Anyway, I've been taking a sock with me, like I always do so that I don't kick people in the shins when I have to wait somewhere in line. But it's a terrible sock. It's just plain stockinette stitch and although I am using a gorgeous Claudia Hand Paint (I've used it before in THIS sock) it looks terrible. The color is pooling badly and it's boring.

B-O-R-I-N-G.
See?

So, the other day I was sitting in a Starbucks knitting along on it while I waited for my friend and someone at the next table asked me what I was knitting. I said, "Well, it's a sock but I think now that maybe it's a bit wide for a sock so maybe, it's a LEG WARMER!" I thought that was funny and might make her laugh since she was a perfect stranger and that's usually my goal when I meet someone. But this look of horrified concern crossed over her face and she said, "Hey, maybe you could make it into a sweater sleeve. It LOOKS like a sweater sleeve. Maybe it's a sweater." And then she picked up her little girl, who still had half a cookie in her mouth, and beat a hasty retreat. (Hey, I saw leg warmers in Target. It's not like I have some yen for the 80's you know.

Oh.

Oh. My.

Except. Well, yes I do.

For my CHILDREN.

Dude. This is BRILLIANT!

I think we may have timed our girls' interest in clothing to peak just about the time the Preppy Look comes back in!
Is that the coolest thing or what?

I'd like to take full credit for this but actually, it's really something we've just been praying for. Because if my daughter comes home with a pierced...well, ANYTHING or a tattoo, y'all are gonna have to come visit me in the place with the nice padded rooms. Is all I'm saying.)

Anyway, so then I thought it could be a sweater but just now I noticed THIS:

For you non-knitters out there, THAT is what a dropped stitch looks like. So, I'm ripping the thing back to the beginning and I will start again.

It can join the bulky mittens I've been working on, which currently look like this.
I was going to wear them with the sweater I was knitting. It looks like THIS at the moment:

Isn't that so nice? I think both of those will go so well with my new socks. They look like this:

(Yes, it's true that if some miracle occurs and I make all these things, I will look like a slightly off color traffic signal but hey, it'll be cheerful!)

Anyway.

In other news: this is what I let my kids do as their after school snack yesterday:


You know how cake reaches that point where it's not longer cake and it sort of becomes...something horrible that absorbs its own icing and then hardens and is awful? Jane's party cake was on the verge. So, I gave the kids forks and told them to have at it.

Oddly enough, both ate a small piece, and then played with scraping some icing off and then they were done. They, get this, listened to their stomachs, which apparently are infinitely smarter than MY stomach and then they stopped eating.


I don't know. It seems like at some point we lose that sort of self governance.

Well, probably not you. But I seem to have lost it. I could learn a thing or two from my kids, eh?