A Year of Two

Hoot just celebrated her first birthday. It was pretty good - marble cake, Grimm's Rainbow and a whole lot of sunshine. Just Perfect.

 

The past year has been just brilliant. Hoot and The Squid seem to just love each other. Of course, we have the odd "MUUUUMM!! She's touching my CAAARS!", but most of the time, they get on. Hoot loves following The Squid around - even marching off to the bedroom with him when he's having a little tantrum. They wrestle, and kiss and cuddle all day. They love sitting in the bike trailer together, and we love watching them play peek-a-boo and Blanket Ghosts.

Both me and The Man spend a little time in the evening just chatting about them - what they've achieved during the day, how they've made us laugh. It's been a great year.

Scrappy Sweater

My mum knitted this beautiful pink bonnet for Hoot. Delicious, pom poms!

However, there was a slight issue with it...

Yup. She hadn't quite finished it, and didn't have enough yarn to do it either. So I took it home with me, with the idea of finishing it off in a different colour. But, of course, that was never going to happen - by the time I rediscovered it in the bottom of my yarn box, it was too small for Hoot. So the hat got ripped, and I knit another Scrappy Sweater. 

I LOVE this pattern - so simple, so versatile, and so sweet. Mixing up the dead-hat yarn with some leftover grey from The Squid's last cardigan, I came up with this. I even managed to do the colourwork, my first in...10 years? 

Granted, the variegated yarn doesn't do well made it into inch high hearts, but I'm pleased with the tension I achieved and the floats on the reverse. Add a couple of soft pink vintage buttons, and we're done.