Yesterday there were crocuses...
...today there was a wintry mix. Sigh.
So there was really nothing to do but go for a walk in the snow with Rob and the pooch, then sit inside and drink hot chocolate (oh, my, did I get some good stuff--it's "drinking chocolate". YUMMMMMM!) and be domestic.
One thing I worked on was the baby blanket that my friend Suzanne is having me knit for her to give to her sister. It's a simple pattern, just basket weave, but it's good in-front-of-the-TV knitting. And the yarn she picked out is really nice--Plymouth Yarn Jean nee (with an accent). Cotton and acrylic--super soft.
This second project, however, gave me a headache. It's a quilt for Rob's parents' Christmas present. Yes, Christmas 2006. We're hoping that "Better late than never" applies here. Rob wanted to help design it. So this is what he came up with:
Rob is nothing if not optimistic.
Not only do I tend to work only in squares, but you all know I'm spatially challenged to boot.
I had to resort to a paper mock up to figure out the easiest way to do the stripes in the triangles. I drew the pattern on paper and cut out the triangles (there were 4, but I lost one).
Then I rearranged them to figure out how I could cut a square in half to make my life easier.
Even with that, I've got the stripes on the triangles going 2 differnet ways.
The final product turned out alright though, I think (the pooch was pooped after her romp in the snow). But a further challenge was cutting out the blue triangles that go between the patterned squares. I made about 4 trips to G Street in 3 days because I can't figure out how much fabric I need to save my life. And you know, in the course of only a few hours they ran out of the dark blue. Figures.
Look at what I got yesterday! Beautiful flowers from Kristen and I do mean beautiful. I have never seen such huge blossoms on roses. They smell divine .
Raspberry peach tea and raspberry peach champaigne jam from Amy & Adam. Yummy! 
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