Beautiful Day

Now that the excitement of MDS$W has passed, life is returning to normal.  We're getting back into our bedtime routine, which had been blown away over the weekend, including the babies NOT sleeping in their own cribs but with me one night in the hotel.  That, thankfully is in the past and we're back to reality.

As if we didn't see enough new animals at the festival, the kids were treated to something new this morning:

We were treated to seeing this pair of mallards on the front lawn.  I went out this morning to feed Yeti and heard some quacking.  These two wandered up and I treated them to slightly stale bread.  They were still around when it was time to head off to daycare/work.  The twins rounded the corner of the house and saw the ducks as you see them on the lawn next to my car (yup I made sure to smudge my license plate to protect the innocent). These ducks must be regulars in populated areas as they didn't flinch as the twins squealed in delight at seeing them.  Unfortunately, we still needed to get moving so after I prodded the little people to continue the trek to the car, the ducks got up and flew away... much to the little people's delight.  They've never seen anything that large fly.  Mr. Duck has had some issues recently and is missing a patch of feathers on his chest.  I'm going to keep my eyes open for the in the coming days as I wonder if they are neighborhood regulars.

Since Pi had to go to Maryland to meet the other EZasPi'ers, I was delayed in getting her to her final destination.  While some folk knew what I was going to do with pi, I didn't announce it in the blog because mom does read it periodically.  Now that Pi's obligations elsewhere have been fulfilled, I gave her to mom for a belated Mother's Day gift last night.  Mom was surprised as I hadn't told her that I was making it for her and as we all know, I'm a pretty darn selfish knitter.  She posed for a blogworthy picture last night after dinner.  Now I think she needs a shawl pin to go with it.  Happy Mother's Day mom, I couldn't do it without you.

Just so you don't think I've done nothing but shop and quit knitting, here is Ribby Shell this morning on the train.  I love the color and how it is working up.  I hate working with the cotton though.  It is so hard on the hands, even with the nylon needles which do improve the experience.  Feh.  Give me wool any day.

I did get some knitting time last night and sat down with the poor Twinkletoes sock that was halfway through the foot working cuff down.  Was.  Not anymore.  I had been flipping through Socks X3 and found the Gull Wing lace pair.  Having seen Cassie's lacey handpainted socks, I decided to use this pattern with this yarn.  I also wanted to play with the shorty sock dpns that I got this weekend as well.  So I ripped out the sock and cast on Gull Wing.  Except I didn't like the shorty needles. The ends were poking me in the palm and I could only imagine the fight later on when working the heel and putting more stitches on one needle.  Not pretty.  I found longer pointy metal needles (gauge fun and all that) and changed to those.  While the knitting was nicer, I didn't like the lace pattern in that yarn.  I pulled the needles and ripped back to the 2" 1x1 rib cuff.  I put it back on the needles and started to just straight knit it again.  About an inch into the stockinette, I really looked at the ribbed section and just didn't like the 1x1.  I really wanted 2x2 like it used to be.  So I ripped it again.  Now I have no twinkletoes socks on the needles at all.  I think I'm going to try Cassie's pattern now.

Its the process.  Ohm.  Its the process.  Ohm.  :)

Knit on!

 

Comments

[Donna]

Mom is a lucky woman to have a daughter knit for her, especially the Pi shawl. It is beautiful.

[Lolly]

What a lovely picture of your mother and the new shawl. She is a very pretty lady in a very pretty shawl!

[Margene]

Your Mom must be on cloud nine! What a lovely gift.
Enjoy your sock knitting...you can do it!

[Nancy]

Please tell your mother that color looks perfect on her! Now that's daughter-love. Good job.

Ohm indeed. Break out the hard stuff!

[Jackie]

I love the picture of the kids looking at the ducks - too cute. Your mom must be so happy!! The shawl is beautiful.
Be on the lookout for me to pick your brain for spinning help soon!! :)