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Ignore the pins, it's still blocking. I couldn't wait to show it off. :)
The details:
Pattern: Hemlock Ring Blanket by Jared Flood aka Brooklyn Tweed
Yarn: Wool Ease Heather 3.5 skeins
Color: Natural
Needle: Addi Turbo US 9 40" (I magic looped at the beginning)
Started: September 2007
Finished: December 2007
Finished Size: 49" diameter
Project Notes: Binding off took forever! I love this pattern and plan to make another at some point.
Today has been full of re-tellings of the Three Little Pigs story, with much focus on the huffing and puffing.
The kids had lots of fun yesterday decorating their first gingerbread house. They've decided it's actually a candy store. Seems reasonable to me.
Decorating involved lots and lots of focus.
Trevor liked organizing the candy by color. This is his red pile. He also had a green pile, a yellow pile and a blue pile.
My favorite part is the green heart-shaped gumdrop doorknob.
I finished (and started) the kids' advent calendar last night (and hung it on my cluttered bookshelf). I made small paper envelopes from winter themed paper and numbered them 1 to 24. Then I cross-reference my calendar and made a month of activities for us to do, wrote them on small slips of paper and placed them inside the envelopes. I wanted to make this month more about memories and enjoying fun stuff together and less about candy and buying/getting stuff. Today we are making a gingerbread house. Other activities we will be doing are cutting a christmas tree, going ice skating, watching a Christmas movie and eating popcorn, going bowling, going to Zoolights, making a paperchain for the tree and baking cookies.
I have an almost finished knitting project you'll see soon and am starting one or two more.
