Knitting stuff that's not what I said I was working on before

The project for me (summer tank, discussed here but never photographed) is on hold indefinitely until I feel like working on it again. Which may be never, but you'll be the first to know.

Meanwhile, I've been having fun with two quick but fairly interesting projects.

The first is a wee little baby sweater in brown cotton yarn with a diamond pattern. My uncle and his wife are expecting at the end of this month, and I thought that this would be a nice "welcome to the world, cousin!" gift. As you can see, all I have to do is wash and block the pieces, seam them together, knit the collar (seed stitch, ick) and then sew on buttons. (Buttons determined by gender of as yet unborn kidlet. We shall see.)

pieces of itty bitty baby sweater. most of this sweater was completed while watching the ever-entertaining Sylvester Stallone in his classic Rambo role. The whole trilogy, mind you, not just one movie. ("The first time, he did it for himself. The second time, he did it for his country. Now, Rambo goes to war one last time for his friend..." OOOooh how I love eighties action movie trailers.)

The other project I've been working on is a pair of pomatomus socks from Knitty. I'm using some Fleece Artist sock yarn that is this gorgeous orangey pink, and I may never go back. I want to live in this stuff. So soft! So pretty!
If it's machine washable like the label says, I think I'm going to knit an entire wardrobe out of this stuff. (Just kidding.)

the socks are named pomatomus because the original pair is green and looks like fish scales. this is... lava-tomus. hehe. yes, I'm a big nerd. watcha gonna do about it?

I love knitting socks. I'm going to have to start giving them away, thought, becasue I have a closetful, and no end in sight! I have the yarn for these socks already (it's green).

In other news, for those of you who made it this far, my rear hurts because I started to bike again this weekend. Richard says it will go away if I keep it up. I say it'll go away faster if I quit now. My bruises are bruised!