Mustard Seed Yarn Lab

First, what I am knitting:

This is going to be a hat. A hat knitted on Size 1 needles. It is taking FOREVER. But when it is done, it will look quite fetching on my handsome, bald friend. 

I’m still working on the super secret project as well, just slowly. Veeerrry slowly. Still on chart 4. Trudging along.

This was me this weekend. Pay no mind to the pretty people I stand with. Just take a look at that GORGEOUS SHAWL!!

I finally had an excuse to wear my handmade Batik shawl. It was ready to get out of my dining room and out into the world. Sadly though, it was a beautiful hot day (sadly for my shawl, happily for the bride) so at this wedding, it didn’t get worn much.

My little cousin Sarah was the one getting married and we had a GREAT time. It was an emotional time for me. Sarah’s dad is my dad’s brother. I sat at the table with my dad’s sister and brother and other family, and Dad felt very absent. It was the first time I’d seen any of them since his memorial service, and I held back tears much of the time. Then Sarah did something very special, and had the DJ play a song in honor of her Uncle Jimmy, and she had him play Elvis’ Suspicious Minds…a favorite of his. I cried. A lot. Right there on the dance floor. He would have been so honored if he knew. Many people were missing my dad that night.

Here is the beautiful bride and her new husband. The kiss is always my favorite picture.

And here is Sarah with her dad, my Uncle Gary.

I just love that picture. And the shawl tried to make another appearance, squeeze into one more picture….

But alas, the camera seemed determined all night to anger me, and purposely was making potentially beautiful pictures blurry.

We drove back home that night…3 and 1/2 hours….so that we could get up and celebrate something else. I became a godmother.

That’s me, dunking the baby. Actually, they just poured water on his head. He slept through it all. His name is Blake Mathew, and he loves me already, I can tell. As soon as I pick him up, he falls asleep. I either really relax him or really bore him. His dad’s behind me in the above picture, making sure I don’t drop him in his slippery satin outfit.

And I wasn’t there solely for Blake. His older brother Liam was also baptized. Here they all are below.

I was super proud to be a part of this event.

Emmet learned how to use my cruddy camera and does a pretty good job, as you’ll see below.

Hee hee…he was trying out the zoom.

And no blog post would be complete without a picture of this little guy:

Well, I have more pictures of a hurricane, a zoo and an amusement park, but those will have to wait for the next post. It’s been a busy couple weeks!

Another Christmas present finished! Aren’t they lovely? I just could not figure out in my head how these were going to work, but I eventually gave up thinking about it and just followed the pattern and there it was!

These are the Kai-Mei socks from Cookie A.’s book, Sock Innovation. Unfortunately, that is the only place you can get the pattern, as it’s not available on Ravelry. The yarn is Dream in Color Starry and the colorway is Spanish Star. It’s not really showing in the pictures, but there is silver thread running through the yarn, making these quite sparkly.

I’m very happy with them and kinda wish they were mine.

Well hello there! I’m afraid I haven’t had much to show on the blog lately. The second sock to Li’s Kai-Mei pair is still not finished (at the heel), and the Super Secret Project is still on Chart 4. Things slowed down for a bit while I had my mom here with my niece and nephew. We had fun though. We went to Crane’s beach in Ipswich.

There’s Emmet on the beach with my niece Taylor. Taylor just might be Emmet’s very favorite person. He spent the 3 days telling her how much he liked her, and telling her how beautiful and soft her hair was. My little Casanova.

My nephew, Asa, has recently learned how to knit. I can’t tell you how proud of him I am. He’s a natural! Here we are on the beach knitting together….he’s as addicted as I am and it’s all he wanted to do while visiting me. Here he is making me a cowl from a pattern I picked out on Ravelry. He finished it that night! I’m working on the Super Secret project.

None of us are really beach people and after a couple hours of sweating in the hot sun, we left and walked around the Crane Castle.

It’s a pretty impressive place. We didn’t go inside, as the tour would have been $10 per person, but we only wanted to walk around the grounds anyway. Holding Mommy’s hand took a quick backseat to holding Taylor’s hand.

While the estate is definitely impressive, it doesn’t hold a candle to the lawn!

Asa, Taylor and Emmet decided to see if they could run and roll to the very end of the lawn.

Emmet did his best to stay caught up with the big kids.

And then they ran all the way back.

They impersonated the statues:

Asa did a great job.

Taylor also blended right in….

But Emmet….well, Emmet needs a little work on his statue posing….

We laughed our butts off watching him try to pose. All this sun and activity makes for one tired little boy…..and a tired Daddy who missed out on all the fun cuz he had to work all day.

I will post knitting stuff soon!