I have really struggled with one particular word that's used differently here from the way it's used in the states. It's such a commonly used word that a fellow Raveler even warned me about it before my first trip to visit Matt nearly two years ago.
The word is "pants" and here it means underpants. As in, "When Matt grabbed a towel from the hamper to blot up the water that suddenly started running down the sitting room wall during a storm on Saturday, a pair of my pants tumbled out with it and neither of us noticed so they laid there on the floor for a few minutes, in front of his dad and stepmom, before I spotted them." And yes that really happened and I can't stop thinking about it. I'm more upset about the pants than the leak.
Anyway, I have the hardest time remembering to say "trousers" or "jeans" when I mean those things that you wear over your underpants. And you have no idea how many times you use a word until you really have to think about it because, suddenly, you're using it wrong all the time.
Why all this pants talk? Because I finally took pictures of the Kanoko Pants I finished knitting last week! And these pants are the kind you wear over the other kind. Or rather, you wear them over a diaper.
As I was knitting these I thought the legs were going to turn out impossibly long but they actually, I think, turned out perfect for the size of 3 - 6 months (the pattern says this size fits 3 - 9 months but I think getting them to fit at 9 months would be quite a stretch - no pun intended). I like the pattern so much that I already know I'd like to eventually knit the largest size (18 - 24 months).
Now that I'm in my third trimester I'm feeling a lot better about being pregnant. The hormones have calmed down - at least for now - so the fact that my family is four thousand miles away doesn't weigh so heavily and constantly on my mind. More things are starting to ache, I napped for about three hours today and couldn't have stayed awake if I'd wanted to, I have acid reflux every night and Matt and I have decided that I have to be getting bigger each and every day but being in a better place, mentally, makes everything easier (along with that fact that he's nearly constantly kicking, swatting, punching and rolling around in there these days). For now, anyway.
I'm in between knitting projects right now since I just finished a third Pebble Vest...it's currently on the blocking mat.
It's a breeze to knit and such a cute pattern that it was just too hard not to cast on a new one while I was contemplating what to knit next. Plus I had seen the ones a Ravelry friend of mine had made last year (ten of them! I have a lot of catching up to do) and I wanted to try her technique of using mismatched, multicolored buttons because it looks really good.
I still don't know what I'm going to knit yet, though. I have three (maybe four, I can't remember) skeins of Colinette Cadenza in pretty Adonis Blue that I'd like to make something out of but it's variegated so I'm looking for something simple. Maybe the Easy Baby Cardigan but with buttons and loops.
I feel like a lot of my posts end with "Now I have to go eat something" but I can't help it...I have to go eat something!
