I'm late, I'm late

As I was loading pictures today I found some Easter things I forgot to show you.

I'll show you now.

These darling little booties were made for one little girl.

They looked adorable with her outfit.  No biased opinion here.

The free pattern is Saartje's Bootees and can be found here.

And for their first Easter, the little girls received

store-bought chicks

in Grandma-made baskets.

I hope you had a wonderful Easter.

-Sharon

While I'm Otherwise Occupied

You know the drill.

GB#1.  Mosaic picture.

Good job, Little E!

Party time

Little E and I hosted a quilting party at my house this week.

There were flowers.

And snacks.

There were cupcakes for dessert.

There was lots of show and tell and prizes.

It was so much fun.

Wishing you lots of fun,

Sharon

Mosaic Day

GB#2 came for a visit today.
 We took the mosaic pictures on the blanket knit by Great Grandma.

Then we took some basket pictures for spring

and got quite serious.

We discovered the flowers

and played with Mommy's face.

All in all I'd say it was a pretty good day.

Until next time,

Sharon

On March 6th...

it snowed.  It was a heavy, wet snow.  

The drive over to Little E's was a beautiful one.

GB#1 got ready and we did our photo shoot as usual.

It was not a particularly smiley day because all she really wanted to do was roll over.

Any day now she will be a mobile monkey.

That is, when she's not doing this.

It is getting harder and harder to pick my favorites from the mosaic photo shoots. 

I love them all.

See you tomorrow (really, another photo shoot),

-Sharon

Recently

Warning:  Knit heavy post.  

There is a reward for those of you who make it all the way to the end. 

Yes, if you are not into knitting, go ahead and scroll all the way to the end.  I don't mind.

Recently I've completed some knitting projects 

and made some decisions about long completed items.

This little pixie hat was completed several years ago with no recipient in mind.

I bought the yarn on vacation in Washington.

The pattern was free with the purchase of the yarn.

I now have a willing recipient, so GB#2 is the proud owner of a new hat.

Next is a cozy little neck warmer.  

This was actually almost finished a long time ago.

All the knitting was done but the sewing together up the back was not going well.

So it went into the "I don't want to think about it anymore" spot.

Finally, the other day, I got it back out and made up my mind to make it work.

The cables were not fitting together properly at the join.  

I started there and did the best I could and then did the middle.

I am assured by my family that any little goofs will be covered by my hair.

I believe that the saying "Done is better than perfect" fits here.

The next recent finish is a belated Christmas gift.

One end has free form cables and the other has something a little more planned. 

Much to my surprise my son, T-Bone, had never received a hand-knit scarf 

and asked for one for Christmas.

This is the same project I showed in this post on my 366 day blog.  

The color here is much closer to its actual color.

And finally, 

I gave you a sneak peek at this last project in the post about lining my knitting bag.

GB#1 is also the proud owner of a new hat.

And now for your reward for getting to the end of this post... 

A couple weeks ago I saw this on my drive home.

The sky looked like it was actually on fire. 

I pulled the car over to take the picture.  It was absolutely not to be missed.

Thanks for hanging in there with me.

-Sharon

More Fun

GB#2 turned 3 months old yesterday.

Of course, we had a photo session.  Above is my pick for the mosaic.

Here is a favorite.

And here is another.

And finally, check out the curly hairdo.