My Trillian scarf is blocked and dry. It came out nicely.
I hope to get some modeled pics soon! In the meantime here are a few shots of our weekend!
Today the Girl’s BFF’s mom asked if we’d join them to celebrate her (the mom’s) birthday at Crown and Crumpet, a local tea shop. Of course I said yes, and talked to the Wee Boy about using our best manners, etc., beforehand. 😜
Luckily, my husband took the Boy out just long enough this afternoon for me to whip up a couple of pairs of earrings as a gift.
We spent another good chunk of the weekend in golden gate park today- exploring, climbing trees, burning off excess energy…
The Wee Boy’s sweater is looking good! It looked like this yesterday:
Now I’ve picked up the button band/shawl collar and have knitted four rows. Yeah!
Because his last hand knit sweater was lost, he’s very concerned about me putting his name in this one. Good kid!
Now for fun, a few pics of an afternoon in golden gate park:
Last night I finished crocheting another hat for our preschool’s fundraising auction! This time, a dinosaur!
And for fun, here are some pics of a super fun block the Wee Boy and I came across on an errand this morning.
Yarn bombings!
The boy couldn’t resist giving the crochet pieces some cuddles.
Koi sidewalk!
Aside from late-night gift wrapping, today wasn’t particularly Christmas Eve-y. We started with a trip to the local grocery co-op, where I giggled to myself over the absurd prices of (sometimes absurd) items.
We also hit Imagiknit (twice!), and admired their holiday window decorations.
Between bouts of rain, we scaled Corona Heighs.
We strolled Fillmore Street and admired decorations in our favorite shop windows.
And I finally put eyes on this fish hat!
I don’t think it looks so worried in real life…
And that was Christmas Eve! Hope yours was merry!
The kids and I spent a good portion of the day out exploring a new place, then an old favorite. First, Fort Funston, which was new to us.
But the views are fantastic.
The tree climbing is also fantastic.
The colors! The textures!
After lunch and gingerbread cookie dough-making, we headed out again, this time to Stow Lake, where the kids enjoyed climbing trees and “tinkering.”
This Honey Cowl is so near completion that I’m using my kitchen scale and computing how much more I can knit before binding off, and how much yarn to leave for the bind-off row. Cutting it close is one of the things I love about knitting! Will it work? Will I have to frog?
I have these two tiny balls left, but my weighing and calculating tell me that I’ll have more than enough to finish. Results tomorrow!
In other crafty news, I made some felt dryer balls and the kids and I embellished some with needle felting.
The swirl is my favorite. The boy wanted a face, so we have one creepy ball.
It has been a verrrry long thanksgiving weekend for me. The kids don’t do well at home for long periods of time, so I have to come up with lots of outside entertainment, which I prefer to be cheap or free, since we require so much of it. Today we hit a new library and a new park/walk. The best part was that we ran into preschool friends at both places.😊 We made good choices!
Oh, we also dropped in at a firehouse. Firefighters are so nice to kids!
About 8″ done, 3″ to go! Home stretch!
Since we are a small family living quite far from most of our relatives (only one set is within driving distance), our holidays tend to be small and unstructured. So today’s Thanksgiving was marked by a trip to the beach, a small, early meal (husband goes to work at 3:00pm), then an outing to the park.
Simple, easy, (relatively) quiet. I’m thankful for the simplicity and for the low expectations my kids have for such holidays. 😜 I hope that my American friends had a nice Thanksgiving, and that friends and readers from elsewhere had a pleasant Thursday.