What a Life!

The other day, I had left some yarn remnants – short pieces trimmed for tails I’d woven – out where Ben could find them and play with them, which he likes to do.

He found them and stood in front of the couch (where I usually sit when I knit) and wound the yarn around his hands. “I knitting,” he said.

The he took his yarn over to our picture window, laid it on the sill, fiddled with it to get it to look just right, and then went over to the bookshelf to pick something up. He walked back over to the yarn, put his hands up to his eyes, and started taking “pictures” of what he had made. (The bookshelf happens to be where I keep the camera – handy, yet up high and out of reach.)

Oh, the things we learn about ourselves when we have three-year-olds who like to reinact what they see us do!

So here’s a picture of a sock I finished recently…posing on the windowsill, of course.

In other knitting news, I finally sewed the buttons on Isabelle’s sweater (Isabelle is the name of my friend’s little girl who will wear it). I hate sewing on buttons, so yes, it’s taken me a month to get this done.

Pretty?

Here is a close up of the collar area. I think it came out so much better than the first sweater I made like this that Joey wore. I bound off instead of decreasing, even just one stitch. Then I just picked up the stitches evenly around the curve. I am very pleased with how it came out. See?

Finally, I got the yarn in from Knit Picks that I had ordered (my excuse for not posting yesterday).

Here is the yarn and the beginnings of a little sweater I’m making for my friend who has bright red hair and loves Mary Kay’s Jungle eye color.

As you can see, my skill in taking pictures of my knitting is improving. I think this is the best photo I’ve taken yet.