Snow Bunnie!

Hello Dear Readers,

Winter finally came to London dropping a whopping 2-4 inches of snow last night!  Chris's cousin Christiana came up from Guildford to collect some dresses we brought back from Cyprus for her.

I made some cracking good vegetarian lentil chilli and then a big bowl of popcorn for watching a movie. As we were watching, we realized there was snow falling outside!  This was our street at about 8 pm as viewed from the window in the upstairs bathroom roof.

 This morning our house looked like this, I could hear the snow melting off the roof though all night because our bed touches the outside roof wall.  Note the tiny snowman made by our neighbor on the gate plinth on the right.  The snow has been melting pretty steadily all day, but the sun never came out so there is a bit hanging around.

As usual I've been working on my projects from Last Minute Knitted Gifts, since I'm working from stash I'm largely limited to the smaller and therefore faster projects so I'm really churning them out.  I finished off this bunny from Cascade 220 I used for Patrick's rowing socks and a little bit of pink mohair, last seen in my now defunct Jem legwarmers.  Here he is posing on our still snowed over back porch, savoring the last of the wintery Sunday afternoon "sun".  Isn't he adorable?

 And here he is showing off one of the 1 hour projects, the knitted kerchief.  I'm really pleased with the way this turned out, using the same cottony recycled  yarn I made my mother's sweater out of, the last ball in fact.

  It looks pretty good around my neck for a spring/fall small neckerchief, or equally good around my head to keep my hear back and my head warm, or I should say "one's" head since I am planning on gifting most of these projects, in the spirit of the book.   I'm so glad I started this project as I've really enjoyed the challenge of sticking to patterns (mostly) and not improvising so much, as well as making things I might not ordinarily.  They are starting to pile up though, so if you see anything you like just give a shout out and you may find it in your mailbox :-).

In an effort to slow down my project making a little bit I've also started spinning some of the 70 g of lovely merino/tussah silk fiber my friend Toad gave me at our Knitting group Secret Santa swap.

Here is the whole shebang, laid out on my workspace.  Don't you just want to snuggle it and roll up in it?  I'm spinning it very finely and I think I will do a Navajo ply on it to give a lovely round lofty yarn.


Patrick and Calvin are fast asleep on the couch now "watching" the Six Nations rugby tournament, warming up to go to the pub at 11:30 to watch the Superbowl. Go Giants!  I'm letting my bread machine french bread cool before I put in flour for a pizza dough.  Just a lovely lazy snowy Sunday afternoon.

Cheers!