One thing you most definitely do not ignore is a precocious 5 year old passing by with a screwdriver saying "Lefty loosey, righty tighty."  One does not finish what one was doing.  One immediately jumps up to see what is destined to be imminently  disassembled.  (Answer: Desk clock that had stopped working. Yes, supervision was in order.)

And yes, I did say 5 year-old.  DearSon turned 5!  I can't believe it  -- wasn't it only yesterday I nursed him to sleep snuggled up in my arms?  Now, he's a 5 year-old Jedi extraordinaire.



And also a knitter extraordinaire:



There's a picture that warms a knitting mom's heart.  Not only is he good with the Lefty-loosey rhyme, but he can recite "In through the front.  Around the back.  Pull through the loop and off jumps Jack."  (In case you're not familiar with that one, this rhyme encodes all the moves required to make a knit stitch.)


I can now also reveal a couple of projects that I was working on in secret for gifts.  The first was a Mother's Day gift for my MIL, lovely mitts for a lovely lady.



Pattern:  Victorian Sampler Fingerless Gloves by Kerin Dimeler-Laurence
Yarn:  Knit Pick Shine Sport (Cotton and Rayon)
Mods:  My MIL has very petite hands so I dropped an entire lace repeat for the cuff and only picked up 26 stitches around.  The remainder of the mitts I knit according to dimensions in Knitter's Handy Book of Patterns.  Also added a thumb. Top detail is  yo k1 then k next row and bind-off purlwise.

And also my spinning guild had a fiber exchange where we were to spin and then knit/crochet a cowl for the original owner of the fiber.  (Kind of weird spinning a fiber that the actual content is a mystery.  Might have had some mohair in it???)  Here's the fiber DD#1 and I received.  I especially liked the rainbow-like color change with blue as ever-present the background color. 




I can just get 4oz of singles on my regular sized bobbins. 



I Navajo plied my singles to preserve the color order and knit The Celtic





(The lighting was a bit dim for these pictures due to a few cruddy overcast days and if I used the flash, the cables were completely washed out.)

Pattern: Celtic Cable Neck Warmer by Lindsay Henricks
Yarn: My handspun for a guild member.
Mods: None. Although if I knit this again I will go down a needle size or two for the ribbing on the end so it doesn't flair quite so much.

And lastly...finally this weekend I can put in my gardens!  Everyone is queued up and waiting for an escort out of doors.