I am in Utah
I flew here to surprise my Mom for Mother's Day.
It was a surprise despite my busy body Mother.
There will be further remote blogging to come.
In the mean time, here is a picture of the Princess and I on our first Mother's Day with babies "on the outside."
Hope all of you Mothers had a lovely day.
It is a sad sad sad day
When a hand knit baby sweater accidentally gets thrown in with the wash.
and FELTS!!!
And then, if that weren't bad enough, the Duke picks it up and mocks me about it. He wouldn't even let me take a picture of him pretending to cry over the mini felted sweater. (You will just have to create a mental picture.) He has no knitting empathy.
The only silver lining is that I have enough of this same yarn to knit the same sweater again if I want, and, it was only going to fit for another month or so. I will just have to knit a bigger one.
In other news, I have been doing a little bit of quilting. I saw this fabric at Esther's and I HAD to make Little Sir (our little owlet) a quilt out of it. I have the square pieced together. The sashing and the back will be out of the green dots and the binding out of the brown stripes, cut on the bias.
Don't worry, I'm not picking up a new hobby. I have no intention of even quilting it. As soon as I have the sashing sewn on it will go in the mail to The Queen and she is going to take it to her local quilting shop to have it quilted.
But really, isn't it adorable? It helps to make me feel a bit better about the sad felted sweater.
I didn't cast on for another sock. . .
I cast on for this instead!
I'm almost done with him and I think he's hysterical. I hope Little Sir likes him.
Also, the seven year anniversary is traditionally celebrated with wool. This is a fact that I reminded the Duke of more than a few times.
He didn't disappoint.
The are both from Hazel Knits- (Thanks Wendee!)
This weekend our family celebrated 7 years sense its inception. (That would be mine and the Duke's 7 year wedding anniversary.)
We got up early, had breakfast, and then the Duke and I joined Little Sir for his morning nap. It was wonderful.
Then we headed out for a day of fun filled family adventure.
First- mini-golf
Watch the ball Little Sir
Now, stay focused, this is a very difficult shot.
Mama, are you watchin' this?
The victorious "team"! (despite my amazing hole-in-one.)
Then we thought we'd go down to Pike Place Market for a bit, but when we got down there it was an absolute zoo. All the rest of Seattle and their out of town guests had the same idea, so I jumped out and got us some cookies from Three Girls, and we headed north.
After a bit of driving around (Link was kind enough to make a delivery on his day off,) we headed up to Edmonds. We had a late lunch/early dinner at Arnies. It was OK, probably a 7, but we didn't order anything that really let them shine. The seafood was good and fresh.
Then we went out on the pier for an early evening walk.
Papa loves his baby.
Watching the horizon.
HI MAMA!
MAMA! Get me out of this thing all ready.
And one obligatory picture of me. (I would like him to know I was actually there when he gets older.)
Sunday a quiet day, remarkable only because we celebrated Little Sir eating his first "solid" food.
I'm starvin' Mama, when we gona eat?
Mom and Dad's on the left (avocado, salt, garlic powder, lime juice, tomatoes.) Little Sir's on the right (avocado, breast milk, ground cumin.)
OK, I'm ready!
First Bite. He was very excited.
He preferred my finger to the spoon.
What is this stuff anyway?
Mama, have you tried this stuff? It's pretty good.
Mess? What mess?
He ate about a quarter of an avocado.
It was a good weekend.
Here are the symptoms of my current malady. Yes, there is one pair there, and I have begun the mates of two of the others. I still haven't ruled out starting another one.
Here are my boys doing what they do so well.
They both love swimming and this is the first time they have been able to do it together. 
What fun!
Just mostly. . .
Here is what has been happening on the fiber end of things.
It started with three different colors of roving. - Merino. I separated it into varying lengths and started to spin one at a time, alternating colors.
I Navajo plyed it to maintain the separation of colors. The ending three ply yarn was a heavy sock weight.
Wound into a cake and you can see the color changes.
Last but not least, knit into a sock. It's my first sock knit from handspun and I love love love it! It's mostly finished now, I just have to graft the toe together.
I'm fairly certain I have enough all ready spun to knit up the next one, but it may have to wait for a bit.. . I seem to be having a bout of SSS (that's "second sock syndrome" for you non-knitters out there.) Besides the handspun sock I have two others more or less finished and I am seriously considering casting on for another first sock before starting any of the second socks. Maybe I will just start wearing mismatched socks like my friend Miles!
