The Great Sock Knit-Off

Isn't this a sweet sight?
My daughter,
knitting away at her sock....

Actually, she's saying to herself,
"Ha....this is sock #2 and look how far along I am."

"Take that, Mom--almost to the heel."

"See? How far along are you?"

"Not so far along," I say.
(and I'm only on sock #1, which, umm, has taken me about 3 years to knit).

We're having a knit-off. Lou has been working on her socks since the beginning of the school year. Things have been lagging, so I dug into the bottom of my knitting basket and resurrected this old project so we could have a contest. I must say, it has inspired her to get knitting.

I'm truly doomed. The child doesn't even need a pattern. She narrated the entire pattern to me in the car yesterday and then detailed how to do the kitchener stitch. Kitchener stitch? After she explained it, I realized that I had done it before, but didn't know the term. Apparently the kitchener stitch is quite famous in school because it's a "recess stitch." You have to stay in at recess to do it so you can have quiet concentration.

Then she told me, with great exasperation, how to do ssk (which apparently I didn't know correctly either).

Thank goodness there's a new Jane Austen to watch these days.
She has saved my knitting before.