I don’t believe it. My local yarn shop is going out of business.
Millicent’s Yarn and More has been here for 13 years and the availability of “good” yarn is what got me back into serious knitting.
Doors close on April 4 so there is still time to use up the remainder of my gift certificate.
Maybe someone else will see the need for a quality yarn shop…
It was such a great deal that I couldn’t pass it up.
I bought 2-3 skeins of each color. What am I going to make? I have no idea. Do you?
While at our daughter’s house, we baked cookies for Valentine’s Day. Because of the mishap on Friday evening and E’s not feeling well on Saturday, we waited until Sunday, February 15, to bake and decorate cookies. Mom and Dad were expected home on Monday so the cookies were a day fresher.
We used half of the recipe of Royal icing as we didn’t have a lot of cookies to decorate.
Red, pink, and white icing and red colored sugar.
I found these little squeeze bottles for the icing so the twins would have more control over their decorating.
I spread most of the cookies with a solid color and the twins decorated the tops.
You can never have too much icing.
For some reason the pink icing got a little too thin and was running everywhere.
When we finished up with all the cookies, we decorated animal crackers.
I took some knitting to our daughter’s while she and her husband were out of town. I always have great plans to knit and I usually end not knitting at all. This time I took some seamless slippers to finish.
Our grandson was taking a nap, E wasn’t feeling well and was camped out on the couch with Mr. Aitch and Z. They were watching something on TV. I sat down in a chair with my knitting.
“Nona, will you teach me how to knit?”
I only had four metal double-point needles with me so I transferred the live stitches from the slippers to some stitch holders and cast on 16 stitches for Z.
Wooden needles are better than metal ones when first learning to knit as the metal ones are very slippery and fall out.
After I got Z started, E wanted to learn.
Both did several stitches with a lot of help. They even knit a row or two and some partial rows with much satisfaction.
After much “This is so hard” and “You knit faster than me because you’ve been doing it longer”, I finished knitting their coasters and gave them some yarn to weave through the bumps.
They liked the weaving much better than the knitting.
Coasters for hot chocolate.
Plus they appreciate how long it takes to knit something.
Knitting In Flashes 