Thursday, February 22, 2007

Benjamin, making himself useful.


Thanks Jen!
Originally uploaded by CreativeExile.
...with a lovely package of gifties from Jen. Thanks!! I wish I had some duplicate needles to send you to help replace your lost stash.

We LOVE Click Clack Moo as Baba collects cows. Now we have our own copy. And the sweater fits Ben fine; not having buttons helps.

Working on the decreases for my first-ever mitten. It looks like it will fit fine, although I had to frog it twice--once when I put the extra gap stitches for the thumb on the stitch holder (corrected thanks to some fine folks here) and again when I realized the decrease in the pattern was going to make the mitten too short.

Then again, I have freakishly long hands (especially my middle finger), so it's been helpful to do my own thang on the decreases. It might end up looking weird, but at least it will fit right.

3 comments:

Jennie said...

Glad it fits!

And how can you not love unionizing cows? And neutral party ducks?

Also, I love George Nicholson. Startled by his Furry Shorts is my favorite since the first one, and we get a new on in May!

And Wrede's Dragon series is a long time favorite.

Anonymous said...

Ok Denise, here's the link to the whole blogger mom vs. meredith viera thing. The first link is where it all started:
http://www.suburbanbliss.net/suburbanbliss/2006/12/hackle_raiser.html
Then came this:
http://www.suburbanbliss.net/suburbanbliss/2006/11/the_hair_is_the.html
And then this:
http://www.suburbanbliss.net/suburbanbliss/2007/01/or_maybe_ill_ta.html
And then you want to start reading
on January 26th, 2007. Be sure to watch the video of the actual interview. I had to watch it on
Explorer it won't work on Firefox.
Let me know what you think! I think
your friend should send Melissa a
copy of that baby book!

Anonymous said...

Hmmm, I guess I'll send you just the links through email since they don't appear to have worked here.