Secret

Remember when I posted about a secret Valentine's Day project for Jim? Well, it is not that sweater vest. I will never make that sweater vest. I think it would take me 5 years to make it, and like my sister said, global warming would probably have set in by the time I finished it, rendering the sweater vest useless.

A little known fact about me is that I cannot keep a secret, especially in regards to gift giving. I just can't. Every year my sister and I tell each other exactly what we got the other for Christmas and birthdays. We kind of like it that way.

Anyway, I ended up telling Jim about my secret project. Hand knitted socks. Socks are very hard because you have to use super tiny needles. He has been asking me for awhile to make him socks, but they always seemed too hard. But I decided to give it a try in the ultimate declaration of love: socks. This was going to be my master piece of knitting, only the color of the yarn wasn't working out. Which is why I had to tell him about the socks. I didn't want to make him socks if he didn't like the color. I could tell he didn't like the color after I showed it to him, but honestly I wasn't crazy about it either.

I can keep knitting in the slightly girly organgeish/brownish color that I mistakenly thought was Saffron (Jim's favorite color, although apparently saffron is bright orange, which I didn't really know.) I can add in some brown stripes (suggested by a friend). Or I can turn them into spiral leg warmers for myself and start over with a safe grey or black yarn for Jim's socks.

Being a child of the 80s, I secretly want to have a reason to wear leg warmers on a regular basis.