hearing things you shouldn't

This morning as I was walking my bike up the big hill to my house (I occasionally conquer this hill, but most of the time I cave and just walk my bike up it) I couldn't help but listen in on the conversation of the ladies behind me. The women, obviously young mothers, were in full babysitter-gossip mode.

For those of you who don't know me, most of my jobs over the past few years have been babysitting gigs. I consider myself an excellent babysitter. . . maybe that's why I never considered that moms would be so critical of babysitters. After five minutes of listening to these women talk I concluded that they would hate even the Queen of England's nanny. Even though I know I'm a great babysitter, I couldn't help but wonder if anyone had ever gossiped about me like that. For all I know someone somewhere is taking a power walk and gushing to her girlfriend, "God my babysitter is so nice, but when she knits at the playground it makes me nervous that she'll let little Jimmy fall on his face."

(Wasn't knitting popularized largely because it is so conducive to the stop/start nature of motherhood, anyway?)

In other news, I've finally got a photo of the front of Grecian Plait. There she is up top, pictured with two skeins of yarn that represent a much bigger quantity of KnitPicks yarn that I got in the mail. I actually got this yarn a while ago, but I was too distracted to post photos of it. The blue yarn will be for the IK Spring 2008 Slyph Cardigan, and the reddish yarn will be for the IK Spring 2008 Printed Silk Cardigan.



And the biggest excitement is this here orange, yellow, and white yarn. Can't say what it's for yet, but it'll be something very special. Can't wait to show you the finished product (in about a month. . . but it's worth the wait).