spring?

The daffies are up and about spent, but the tulips haven't yet bloomed.
On Saturday, both sons had baseball scheduled. The youngest one's game started at 9. The real feel was 38°F. But early afternoon it was raining so hard and windy that the 5:45 game was called. It was a day for knitting and sleeping and reading.... all of which were done by the entire family (not all by everyone, but all by the 5 of us)

I finished MIL's bday gift.

Pattern: Echo Reversible Drop-Stitch Mobius by Kristin Omdahl in Interweave Knits Spring 2011
Yarn: recycled Abercrombie & Fitch 80 wool/20 nylon
Color: brown
Needle: US13
Buttons: Coconut shell purchased at A.C.Moore
Recipient: MIL

The only thing I needed to do was to ply the yarn double to make it bulky enough. I'm afraid it could be a little too long but I'll let her figure out how to deal with that. She loves brown and loves cables... hope she likes this.

Have to put this cute picture of the little man on opening day of baseball. Don't tell the older one that I forgot to take the camera to his game. I'll get some good shots of him soon. I had other stuff in the front of my mind. We had a concert that night that DH was conducting and I was soloing at. Left the baseball game early to go to the concert. This spring is going to be running around for sure.
DD found this nature anomaly today and insisted I take a picture of it. I call it the siamese twin dandelion.... kind of interesting.

here it is

the cabled headband:

Pattern: ChicKnits Cabled Headband
Yarn: Robin Aran
Needle: US8
Amount of yarn: about 40g needed


I cast this on this morning and was finished early afternoon. That was with 3 kids bugging me the whole time... very easy knit. Not wide enough for my liking, but it's OK to cover the ears. I bought this yarn from ebay long ago when I first started knitting. It's pretty soft too. I blocked it using a lanolin wool wash and it smells good enough to eat now :-)

I hope to finish my SIL's cloths tonight... I had a little delay. When I was putting the kids to bed, I laid down to nurse the littlest and fell asleep for a few hours (oops)

I leave you with a little family musical holiday cheer.