Cuteness!!

I can only assume he is saying "thanks
Mom, I really like my new
Pillow"




-- Post From My iPhone

Making myself jealous

I originally took these photos with plans of taunting Laura since she has limited access to "American" cuisine. The sad conclusion here is that I'm only making my own mouth water. And so I share the following photos with a small tear in my eye and a grumble in my stomach...
Behold the Anna's!!!!


Brian and I were in Brookline recently on a mission to clean out my dad's basement in anticipation of the potential sale of the house-more sadness!! But I digress... The point is, I don't think I can cross the border into Mass without the requisite trip to Anna's. And so I ordered up the usual:



Hello quesadilla, my you're looking fine! Even Brian had to join in



Yummness!!!
But now I'm sitting here in CT starving with no hope of anything even pretending to be Anna's. Sigh.

On a slightly happier note, I finished the vest for my cousin's impending babyness!! I'm in love with the yarn, I'm in love with the pattern, I'm just in love!



This little guy is going to hang out with me at the store until the shower because he's just to cute to not show him off!! And I have to give a little closeup love to the buttons, cause how much to you love these:



Just adds a whole new layer of cuteness!!

Oh! One my pic then I'm done I swear! Since I've discovered how to blog from the iPhone and include the pics it's a whole new world!! I finished my lace cardi and got Bertha all dressed up...


Her waist is a **little** smaller than mine so I had to pin my skirt on her, but overall I think it's a good look on her...
Alrighty, time to get back to work. The new website for the shop is so close I can almost taste it!!
-- Post From My iPhone

Super cuteness!!

Blogging on the move... This is an exciting new feature! Took some photos on my phone that I just had to share!

The first is something we put together for a donation for a fundraiser for HD. The shop is donating yarn and I'm donatig my mad knitting skills to make a custom sweater for the winner at the silent auction. But I thought just printing that on a sign would be too boring, so I started knitting! But how to disay my wares? Enter Rich and Holly... Thanks to Holly's vision and Rich's skills with tools we created this:



Is it me or is that too cute for words??

And on the knitting front, I'm loving the pattern I'm working on right now! My cousin Maria is expecting a little one, so I'm knitting a little vest courtesy of The Purl Bee out of Baby Bunny:



Love the yarn, love the pattern, love it. Hopefully Maria won't see this post and will still surprised!!
Happy Knitting!
Maggie
-- Post From My iPhone

Spring? Wait, what happened?

How terrible that its been four months since I posted! Hopefully that is because time flies when you're having fun... er something to that effect. More like time flies when you don't have any of it! I've working my way through the winter and even managed to get a little knitting done, just don't look around my house. Eeek! I think one of the cats got lost for a few days in a pile of laundry, they've been threatening to take over (the piles of the laundry, not the cats).
I feel as if this winter was a great fog and I'm finally emerging on the other side... Let's just hope this spring is a productive one! Time to dust the cobwebs around the house and in the brain and get moving!

I signed up for this blog thinking it would be a great place for all of the thoughts that didn't fit in my jam packed little brain, seems I didn't save enough room to remember the blog exists! Here's hoping I remember this time!

Falling snow....

I can't remember how long ago it was that I signed up for this blog and this is the first time I've gotten around to writing anything. Whew. Well, the snow is falling here in Connecticut. And while some may find the snow to be an inconvenience, I'm rather enjoying the pretty view. And, it does tend to lend itself to knitting. I am currently wearing my very first foray into multi-color knitting. Its an Icelandic yoke sweater, a Lopi pattern I believe, though knit in Lamb's Pride bulky. Sigh. I must have knit it twelve years ago or so, doesn't look bad!
On the knitting front, I have found myself with very little crafting time of my own lately. I was working on a crew neck sweater for the hubby, but that has been shelved for the time being. I'm starting to feel like that sweater is just not meant to be. I had it almost finished about a year ago, all pieced and everything. I was knitting the neck and I had him try it on just to see how it looked. WOW. What a disaster. I still don't know if I didn't pay enough attention to my guage or what happened, but it looked TERRIBLE. Against his protests, I ripped. And ripped. And ripped. I've been clicking along on it for a while and it looks SO much better. I keep measuring over and over just to be sure, but I think we'll be okay this time.


Of course, now that the sweater is coming along, hubby has me knitting him a scarf now too. It isn't really anything fancy, just a plain old ribbed scarf. Its actually kinda nice to have something simple so that my mind can wander as I knit, or I can get in some serious TV watching.