Morgan loves watching me knit and always likes to know who I’m knitting for. She picked up some of my knitting needles this afternoon, pointed to my wool stash and said “I knit mummy”, I passed her what was in arms reach and she sat on her stool “knitting”
**edited 6 Jan to add another couple of sections**
Over on Ravelry, a new group has been started for TNN members and friends. It’s a wee bit of a knitting challenge to knit 10 things in 2010, there’s about 9 categories to join in. At this stage I’m joining 5 (now 7) different categories so that means at least 50(70) items from me next year *gulp* including a pair of socks *double gulp*
Under each category I’ve started listing patterns I’d like to knit, the list is still very much a WIP, some of them are bound to change due to my indecisiveness. As time goes by I’ll mark things off and maybe include a picture so I know what I’ve done :)
(all links below are currently Ravelry links)
One Skein Knits and Dishcloths
Just going to be dishcloths to go along with the new monthly dishcloth KAL at KrisKnits
Charity Projects
Undecided here as of yet
Baby/Child
Pinkalicious (Blog post here)
Pattern: Pinwheel Sunhat by StitchyMama
Rainbow Dress
Paxton Jacket (for a special little boy)
Bloom (x 2 - one for Morgan in 8ply, one for Zoe in 10ply)
Oriental Lily (x2 for Morgan)
Milo for Morgan for the winter
Pinwheel Beanie for Zoe
Little miss greenjeans probably for Morgan
MCN Knitting
Ladybug Loops Longies/Shorties
Ultimate Longies
Looking Glass Longies
Vanilla
Dolls Clothes
Dolly Bloom
Poppy Cardigan
Pinny for a Dolly (x3 – Jo, Amy and Beth)
1 of each
Dolls Clothing
Teddys Summer Breeze
Pattern: Kaia Babydoll (doll sized) by Rachel Evans
Toy
Little Birdie
Pattern: Sweet Little Bird by Raynor Gellatly
Adult knit – Tilted Duster ?
Baby/Toddler knit – Baby Tiered Coat and Jacket ?
Bag - Grrlfriend Market Bag ?
Dishcloth
MCN Knitting
Older Child knit (5+)
Shawl or scarf
Socks
Toy
finish 10 projects!
Big Red
Pattern: Sweet Little Bird by Raynor Gellatly
Traveling Woman
Lets Go Shopping - Market Bag
Buddy Bag
(The items in the last category might move up to the “1 of each” category if they fit, which will make room for more variety)
It was DP’s birthday yesterday, and because he doesn’t like the boxing day sales as much as me, we had a nice quiet day at home :) The girls made Daddy some yummy shortbread for his special day. I made up the mixture while Morgan was pretending to sleep and then let them go nuts cutting out shapes with Zoe’s new cookie cutters. (Ignore the fact that they might look a little burnt around the edges – mummy cooked them for a bit too long)
Morgans
Zoes
and of course the birthday boy needs birthday cake! Decorating by Miss Zoe.
Will be doing a few update posts shortly with all the Christmas crafts so stay tuned :)
I hope you all had an awesome Christmas – I know we did :D Here’s a few photos from our morning. (Forgot to get the camera out when everyone came round for tea)
Look what Santa brought us! 
Zoe opening one of her presents 
Morgan with one of her favourite presents of the day 
Dad, Nana and Morgan playing with Morgans new train set 
