With #1, a happy child.
Does she look sick to you? Yeah, not so much, huh? She missed school today. Woke up with a myriad of complaints and a bloody nose (poor thing) on top of it. And then.... she was just fine. Could it be the Magic Scarf ?
Does she look sick to you? Yeah, not so much, huh? She missed school today. Woke up with a myriad of complaints and a bloody nose (poor thing) on top of it. And then.... she was just fine. Could it be the Magic Scarf ?
And #3, a drink. (more on that below)The scarf is based on something we saw in a catalog before the holidays. It was so simple and easy to figure out that I just couldn't put down the $50 for it. Besides, it didn't come in this fabulous jade green that Maya loves so much.
So I picked up two skeins of Cascade, ripped the page out of the catalog and did a little fast math. Spent some time knitting it over the holidays, as it's a great pattern to pay only half attention to. And? Ta da. I'm calling it Maya's Midori, due to the amazing color of both the yarn and the booze - and the fact that she likes the way the the Midori smells.
(Is it wrong that she knows how the Midori smells?) It does smell good.
The pattern is written for an adult size, although I knit if for her. I just knit a few inches less to make up for the fact that she's about 4 feet 10 inches tall.
(Is it wrong that she knows how the Midori smells?) It does smell good.
The pattern is written for an adult size, although I knit if for her. I just knit a few inches less to make up for the fact that she's about 4 feet 10 inches tall.
Which gives me enough leftover to play with hat ideas. And we have a few.-------------------------------
As for the drink, it's hard to make Midori anything but Way Too Sweet. Unless you add a lot of lime juice. So I did.
Maya's Midori
(Is it also bad to name a drink after your kid?)
1 part Midori
2 parts white rum
1 part lime juice
2 parts soda water or seltzer
ice
Shake up in a jigger and pour. Add a cherry.
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As for all the other thoughts on starting 2010 right, I've been working on them, and for once I really do have a plan. I figure you care about the part that's related to the knitting.
I've created an office upstairs to organize all my fibery endeavors, and I'm about to realistically go through what's left of my stash for what I will and will not ever use. I've already organized all my books and magazines, my notions and my pattern notes. I even put up a bulletin board and created a flowchart for the future "pipeline" of patterns underway. The calculator will live upstairs.
And then, (as you can see) I'm about to become a perfectionist (stop laughing).
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