Home Again
Whew! We are back from our whirlwind tour of everything kid friendly in the San Francisco Bay Area. And goodness, do we need a vacation from our vacation.
Boy-O with N & T at the GG Bridge Memorial Point. I think this is my favorite picture from the trip.
Pier 39. All that is tacky and touristy can be found here. Of course the kids loved it.
Penguin exhibit @ the Monteray Bay Aquarium. They play Carribean music and the penguins totally bop along to the beat.
Don't think I mentioned this before, but these adorable folks are my brother's youngest two, ages 5 & 7 (who currently live w/my mom). N was on spring break, so we planned the trip to coincide with that.
(Needless to say, Grandma enjoyed the break, too!)
I also got to meet the rest of Boy-O's family on the paternal side (Grandpa and the aunts). Coming from an incredibly huge family (between them, my parents have 26 siblings), I am constantly surprised at how few relatives he has. It's a completely different world.
Knittingwise, I came to my senses and only took the Boy-O's scarf. It was the perfect thing, since I could practically knit this in my sleep. I think I was, at some points - travelling with the little people was very busy and we frequently found ourselves going to bed just after they did(!). Still, no major errors and there was actually a tiny bit of progress.
And of course, there was souvenir yarn: I was very restrained in my trip to ArtFibers (difficult though that was!) as I only had about 30 minutes to visit. I picked out a skein of the Golden Chai for the Mom-O (J, they do offer online ordering if you want more), one skein of the cotton/stainless steel Tesla to play with:
(I blame Claudia's lovely sweater for this purchase.)
and a bag of Kurasawa:
It is 50% merino, 50% silk and 100% Mine. Whee!
I have no idea what I will do with it, but I Could Not Put It Down, and therefore it is now mine.
(The swatching area is just brilliant. I love being able to sit down and play with the yarn before I take it home.)
This stuff feels like butter and has gorgeous, subtle variegation - my absolute favorite things in a yarn.)
Normally, if you buy a bag of yarn, they'll create a custom pattern for you, but I didn't have enough time on this visit, so I'll have to come up with something myself. It will be a real pleasure.
Boy-O with N & T at the GG Bridge Memorial Point. I think this is my favorite picture from the trip.
Pier 39. All that is tacky and touristy can be found here. Of course the kids loved it.
Penguin exhibit @ the Monteray Bay Aquarium. They play Carribean music and the penguins totally bop along to the beat.
Don't think I mentioned this before, but these adorable folks are my brother's youngest two, ages 5 & 7 (who currently live w/my mom). N was on spring break, so we planned the trip to coincide with that.
(Needless to say, Grandma enjoyed the break, too!)
I also got to meet the rest of Boy-O's family on the paternal side (Grandpa and the aunts). Coming from an incredibly huge family (between them, my parents have 26 siblings), I am constantly surprised at how few relatives he has. It's a completely different world.
Knittingwise, I came to my senses and only took the Boy-O's scarf. It was the perfect thing, since I could practically knit this in my sleep. I think I was, at some points - travelling with the little people was very busy and we frequently found ourselves going to bed just after they did(!). Still, no major errors and there was actually a tiny bit of progress.
And of course, there was souvenir yarn: I was very restrained in my trip to ArtFibers (difficult though that was!) as I only had about 30 minutes to visit. I picked out a skein of the Golden Chai for the Mom-O (J, they do offer online ordering if you want more), one skein of the cotton/stainless steel Tesla to play with:
(I blame Claudia's lovely sweater for this purchase.)
and a bag of Kurasawa:
It is 50% merino, 50% silk and 100% Mine. Whee!
I have no idea what I will do with it, but I Could Not Put It Down, and therefore it is now mine.
(The swatching area is just brilliant. I love being able to sit down and play with the yarn before I take it home.)
This stuff feels like butter and has gorgeous, subtle variegation - my absolute favorite things in a yarn.)
Normally, if you buy a bag of yarn, they'll create a custom pattern for you, but I didn't have enough time on this visit, so I'll have to come up with something myself. It will be a real pleasure.
posted by Cher at
8:02 AM
2 Comments:
"Still, no major errors and there was actually a tiny bit of progress" - are you talking about the scarf or the kids or the vacation or life in general? It's a great line and useful for any occasion!
Lovely pictures of three of my favorite people in two of my favorite places. Thanks.
The Golden Chai is incredible. I don't think I've ever felt anything quite like it. Thank you SO much for the chance to play with it. I actually had been looking at it on the website and daydreaming! (I don't think I mentioned that when you gave it to me, it was such a shock to actually be holding it my hand. Like magic!)
Are you going to knit Tommy a Tesia Thunder Jacket?
Mom-o
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Anonymous, at 3:28 AM
I, too, did not have time to wait for them to write up a custom pattern. Luckily, tney offered to mail it to me. I swatched when I got home and emailed them my gauge and what kind of sweater I wanted to make. They kindly emailed me the pattern followed up with a snailmail pattern AND schematic. See my Tesla swatch on my blog.
We must have the same taste b/c Golden Chai, Sherlock and Tesla came home with me.
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badmomgoodmom, at 1:29 PM
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