TWW - Busy is the first word

It was a very busy weekend. So the second word is Sunburned and the third is Happy.

It was a weekend of yard work, staging of retreat supplies, reviewing welcome gift items and potluck with neighbors.

I went to bed sleepy and content.

Happy Nearly End of April to All~!

Preparing for Retreat - Interupted

I interupt this blog to bring you the cutest birthday card ever. Pedro received this for his special day.

Of course, Pedro looked just like this most of the day, minus the turban. :-)

Pedro, The Pirate Prince is 9

My little boy is nine years old. That is hard to believe. I can remember the moment I saw him out in yard, pitifully looking for his momma. He has grown into a very handsome and fun companion.

His birthday will be full of all his favorite things. First a bite of fishy flavored canned food, then a romp on his favorite Goodwill bag, game of string with a bit of cord, a visit to his window to see his kingdom, and a nap in his favorite cozy hut. It's good to be a cat!

Roscoe Village Hats

I borrowed this picture from the designer of this hat pattern, I hope she does not mind, because I love this hat pattern.

And, after my visit it Loopy on Saturday, so do at least three other people.

The two that I have knit so far were done out of Madeline Tosh Vintage, one in Turqoise and the other out of Smokey Orchid.

My review of this is: if you use a more defined variegate then you do not see the texture stitching in the hat immediately, and if you knit it out of a more tonal, subtle color variegate you see the texture right away.

This pattern I highly recommend if you want a really great all-round hat~!

Baby Hats

Since I am now in a place that I have a better chance of knowing people who are becoming parents or grandparents, I decided that I should pre-do some gift items.

I found a really cute and simple baby hat pattern and some great yarn to knit them in. The pattern can be found here at Ravelry. The yarn is Bernat Baby Jacquard. The yarn is the secret to how cute these are.

Easter bunny duck is courtesy of my trucking brother.

TWW - Looking for Stuff

Find, Redistribute, Reuse - those are my three words for the weekend. I went looking for something I needed for retreat and ended up resorting and cleaning up my stash and project area. So I filled a bag with giveaway yarn plus the bag that CatWithCats shared with me, then I called my neighbor to come over and go through it before it goes to its final destination.

In the final stages of cleaning and repositioning, I found the items I was searching for, so I spent the rest of the day knitting on my secret Mother's Day knit.

It was a good use of my Sunday and my house looks better. I think that was a great use of my time.

A Visit to Loopy

Today was another opportunity to visit Loopy Ewe in Fort Collins. The store looks even better than it did at Grand Opening in January.

While we were there, I went up with CatsWithCats and MaryKHansen, we found GurlyPurl from Texas and BabsStitches from Florida visiting for their own Spring Fling. It was lots of fun to reconnect with other like minded folks. We shared patterns and enabled  helped each other pick out yarn for new projects.

I picked up two new yarns to knit into the Roscoe Village Hat (one is a test of using sockweight yarn double to create a softer hat with the texture) and the other was the Malabrigo Worsted that I have not gotten to use before.

Afterwards we had lunch at the HuHot Express, yummy. Then I headed home before the weather became wintry again. Yes, I know it is April, however it is Colorado. I hope everyone had a fun adventure this weekend.