Busy fingers

Take a small child, some muffin cases, and a jar of colourful buttons........ endless fun

February......

Two months of 2016 gone already.  It seems most of this month has been spent helping to pack up a home ready for a move this week.  Exciting times.  It has also made me look around our house at all the "stuff" we have, not sure I am ready to tackle any of it yet, but at some point in time we will move on from this house and it will be a monumental task!!  Maybe I should take a room at a time and do a cull........

February - only 6 blog posts, most of them about knitting, my milestone birthday and half term with the boys. I'm still not used to the idea of being 60 but nothing I can do about it.

A certain young lady was 2 last Monday, I should have given her a blog post, shame on me.  We spent a fun day on Friday and she stayed the night so we got to have early morning cuddles on Saturday. It's so funny, Jess loves to get into our bed for a cuddle and a story or two, unlike the boys who want to fight and make tents, regardless of the early hour!

I picked up a bargain from the charity shop last week, a whole bag containing various Brio wooden train set parts for £10, all we need to add is some straight track

Jess spent most of Friday playing with it

We also went to the park, though it was cold and windy so didn't stay too long.  Jess is growing so fast, hard to believe she is 2 and will be a big sister come May.

don't you love the "biker boots"?

The cot blanket is now finished, I am so pleased with it.

I also made Jess an outfit for World Book Day this Thursday.  Her current favourite book is Where's my Teddy by Jez Alborough.  This is what she will be wearing, a tunic loosely based on the child's sheep outfit  and a headband, using the nose and ears from a teddy bear pattern.  Hopefully she will wear it and Rachel will get some photos.

I still haven't managed to get out on the garden that much, either too cold or wet or busy, well that's my excuse.  This weekend it's the Knitting show and helping unpack boxes so no gardening,  it will keep, Easter's not that far away and 4 whole days which at the present time are free...........

Finally done

It seems like I have been working on the jacket forever.  It actually took me 3 weeks due to the hot weather and my book, but its done and I am really pleased with it.

This will keep Miss J warm and snuggly over the autumn months.  The pattern details are here.

Talking about Miss J, she is growing up so fast, no longer a baby, a little girl.  Here she is on Sunday sporting a hair slide that I made for her, just a slide with a button sewn on, I have lots!!

She insisted on being pushed around in the doll's pushchair, poor Pop's back! Poor pushchair too

Just in time for the sun

With the wedding now behind us, I have turned my attention to my knitting.  A cardigan I started a few weeks ago and also a sun hat.

Yesterday proved to be perfect sunhat weather, so Miss J was more than happy to model her new hat (and cardigan, there was a stiff breeze at times) evidenced by the sunburned faces of the grown ups who weren't wearing hats!

The hat is from the Love Knitting for Baby magazine issue 19 (May) I used Rico Essentials Cotton DK, I added the flower to make it just a bit more girly

The cardigan again in Rico is a Peter Pan pattern from booklet P1049, it looks better on than off.

We were at the Cambridge Strawberry Fair, not sure it's really our sort of scene but Rachel and Jess wanted to go along so we were more than happy to spend a day in their company

After the Fair we went for a stroll through Jesus Green and along Quayside to a pub, a lovely day out even if we do look like belisha beacons

Jess takes control of the camera

For 14 months Jess seems to have got her Daddy's knack with the camera. What do you think?

and how cute is this picture