Posted in bug knits on Jul 19th, 2006
There is a new knitter in my house. Bug wanted me to teach her to knit, again. Last time she got frustrated and gave up. This time I bought her a set of knitting looms.  She took to them like a duck to water. I started by showing her how to set up the first rows and before I had even gotten all the way around the loom she said, “Ok, mom, I can do it myself.” And she did.
This is her first FO, a hat for her baby doll made from two strands of encore worsted in pink and purple. It took her less than two days.
As soon as she finished the first hat she was bugging me to let her “pick out her own yarn” from my stash . . . ummm, hold on there little girl that’s MY stash, get your own . . . no, wait, here . . . and I gave her a bunch of colors of Cascade 220 to choose from. She picked light pink and white, and she is making a hat for herself.  If it turns out too small for her she wants to donate it to “the children who don’t have a hat”, so it will go to the Dulaan Project if that’s the case.
pattern: Knitting Pure & Simple Child’s Neckdown Pullover
yarn: Mission Falls 1824 Wool - colour 0535
needles: Clover Bamboo US7 & 9
cast on: July 5th  cast off: July 18th
notes: I added a bit of ribbing before the rolled edge. One and one half inches of 2×2 rib on the neckline and 4 rows on the sleeves and bottom. I had to re-bind-off the neck since she couldn’t actually get it on. I used a much larger needle to bind off and it was fine.
Posted in family life, food on Jul 19th, 2006
After making jam on Sunday, I woke up on Monday morning with a need to bake.  So, I made some zucchini bread with an 8-ball zucchini from the garden.ÂÂ
The pans are from Ikea and they produce a longer, narrower bread. That is nice, because it gives you a smaller piece and the bread seems to last longer, and really the kids don’t need a huge slice.
  
Yesterday, the kids and I headed down to the beach at the Mukilteo Ferry Landing. There was lots of splashing in the water,
throwing of rocks into said water and searching for sealife (crabs, muscles, jellies, etc),
climbing on the rocks and driftwood,
and watching trains (with airplanes on them!) go by.
