Buddy and I in our new matching Center Square hats. Man, I could just keep making more and more of these, they're so fun. And, oh, how the weather this weekend warmed the cockles of my Midwestern wintered heart!
He's telling me a secret at the sledding birthday party we all attended on Saturday--we don't often get a chance to sled when it's nearly 50 degrees, and the kids had a blast! Buddy insisted on starting from all the way at the top of the big hill, which made my mama-nerves jump, but after only one minor crash, he and The Huz made it down. This pic shows Buddy's fashion sense perfectly--he loves colors, the more, the better.
The last three days, we've all gotten up and gone for a walk around the block together, which proved pretty adventurous, since the kids chose roller-skates and a scooter the first day, when the sidewalks still shone with glare ice. Luckily, the down coats they wore helped them bounce back up after a spill. Buddy's middle name is definitely 'no fear.' He liked falling down almost better than scootering.
I've been feeling a mite off, since my teeth have had four dental procedures in the past two weeks, but the spring-like atmosphere and sunshine have really helped me bounce back. I'm ready to start eating crunchy stuff again, thank goodness. Lentil soup and yogurt taste good, but I'll look forward to some carrots and potato chips.
This week, I finished Belle's mittens...I got hung up on all the ends to weave in, but finally jumped that hurdle at a morning playdate while my mama-friend kindly organized the snacks and clay-sculpting.
Belle clowning with her polka-dot sleeper and new mittens. She picked out the colors and motifs herself; I scrambled along and discovered that designing stranded-color knitting was harder than I thought. It took several scratched-out sheets of graph paper before the final grid emerged, and even then, the hearts kept inching toward the flowers when I knitted it. Still, she likes them and they'll keep her hands warm, so that's what counts. With handknits and growing kids, at least I know I'll get plenty of chances to practice next winter...
For the hats, I used Valley Yarns' Berkshire Bulky, and the mittens were Knitpicks' Swish Superwash, my own pattern.
I've had that color-shock experience with Knitpicks, too, Erika, and I finally got color cards for both the Wool of the Andes and Swish Superwash. I am obsessed with lime green, and start drooling when I see it, but mint green leaves me cold, and I've ordered stuff that I thought was yummy lime only to discover a mint-green yarn. Anybody who digs mint will make out like a bandit at the yarn swap.
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