When did knitting become cool?

It seems that blogging your knitting is now a cool thing to do. Not sure when that happened (it certainly wasn't cool way back when I learned to knit!), but I'm going to give it a shot myself. I'll start with this photo, which is the picture we sent out in our Christmas cards this year. I knit this from a ewecanknit pattern (Here, or you can see some of her patterns here) with yarn I bought before The Boy was born. It's great, because the neckline is nice and loose to fit over his big head! The yarn is Pingoin, from my LYS.