Warm Feet Mumma

This will tickle the fancy of handknit lovers and baby lovers alike. Lucia is learning so fast, in a learning curve that you can't believe until you are in close proximity to a child and can observe it for yourself. She has a plethora of words and adds new ones every day. At least two or three that I hear her say and who knows how many others that she uses to other people. Today she was looking at my hand knit jitterbug socks and I said aren't they soft and squishy and we were squishing them for awhile and she said "Warm Feet Mumma". Truer words could not be said, because there is nothing as nice as slipping a pair of handknitted socks on to your feet for warm toasty toes (okay okay ugg boots are pretty warm too, but not as pretty).

Knitting: Fit for a SIL

I've learned over time that you should always keep emergency knitting in your glove box for those times that you find yourself waiting somewhere unexpectedly or being the passenger on a long drive. My emergency knitting was the Dream in Color (U.S. company so spelling is correct), December 2010 yarn club which was a skein of pale blue with tinges of mauve sock yarn.

This is normally not my kettle of fish at all, but the pattern that came with it had an endearing story attached regarding snow flurries on Lake Michigan and so I started knitting them. When we were on summer holidays with my SIL Flick, she admired the colours and said they were right up her alley and voila, a grateful recipient was found. Here she is modelling her new footwear. The dog in the pic is her faithful hound Sam.

I have a secret... I love to knit socks but I don't like to wear them.

Knitting: Monkey Socks

So I finally got my knitting mojo back after a horrible incident with some morris and sons yarn and a baby jumper with too small a head hole (I followed the frakking pattern damn it!!!). Who knew that babies are born with giant heads! Ok so most women who have had one, but me on this side of baby making was blissfully unaware.

I finished these Monkey socks by Cookie A which were a knitalong with the Richmond Knitters group and I started them in January and they've been lying forsaken in my knitting bag :) but finally knocked them over in a few days and my thumb is killing me :)



I also made this little hat for Rita's little baby girl Ruby. Which is so cute. I can't wait until it fits her she's going to look just like a little wood nymph.