Addicted to the Needles

It's my birthday!!

  It's my birthday today, June 22nd (not telling the year)!!  It is only 6:30 am, but I have already had an exceptional birthday.  First up-my Knitters Treat Exchange box arrived yesterday.  It is from Jan at tbd-dog lover, knitter.  It was filled with lots of glorious stuff!!  Thank you so much, Jan!!

  It contains 2 boxes of Tazo tea(the orange is delish), 2 kinds of chocolate, 2 knitting mags, Bigelow hand cream, stitch markers and a lovely hand-dyed Tip-toe Sock Yarn in Nature.  She also sent a teething ring for Miss Bella.  She says thank you, too.

     My BFF Kelly got me a box of goodies, too.

     A lovely basket with a pattern, needles, and yarn to make a market bag, a mug filled with Lindt chocolate and scrapbook supplies.  Thank you, Kelly!!  Then it was off to Stella's, our favorite birthday restaurant!!  They have a beautiful hand-blown glass sculpture there that hangs from the ceiling of the upstairs down through the floor. 

     The best thing about Stella's(besides the amazing food) is that on her birthday, every woman gets to take home one of the flowers.  I have been patiently waiting for mine all year.

     I promptly came home and hung it in my window!!  We had a lovely time with friends and family.  It was my daughter, Elizabeth's birthday, too.

We had great food and a  wonderful chocolate cake!!

     But, the best was being totally shocked as the clarinet player came upstairs and said he heard there was a birthday celebration.   He then serenaded us with the most beautiful and romantic rendition of Happy Birthday I have ever heard!!

    As you can see, we thoroughly enjoyed it.  It was so lovely and soft, it put Bella to sleep!!

     So far I have had a great birthday and it has barely started.  We always joke that it is our birthday week so we can suck every bit of fun out of it!!!  Tonight is a big event here in town we will all be going to.  Yeah, the party never stops!!  Time to relax and enjoy some of the lovely birthday tea.

 

 

Thank you gift!!!

  I recently participated in the Knitters Treat Exchange.  While I haven't received a treat myself yet, I had alot of fun putting together a box for Geraldine of Turtle Knits.  I learned a great lesson about mailing a box overseas-IT TAKES FOREVER TO GET THERE!!!  Her box took 7 weeks to arrive and was way past the deadline of May 5th.  But I kept in constant contact with her and she was so patient and kind about it.  You can see what I sent her on her blog.  So I was completely surprised when I received a thank you gift from her in my mailbox.  I was also surprised to see that it took less than a week for her package to get to me!!  Nice :(

     Here is what she sent- a cute dishcloth (you can tell she is a really good knitter), some chocolate, tissues and a fridge magnet that says "Chocolate is proof that God wants us to be happy."  How true!!!  Thank you so much, Ger.

New tooth!

Awww, what can be cuter than a baby's first tooth.  Baby Bella is almost 6 months old and got her first tooth yesterday.  This probably explains why she has been so crabby!!! 

Tychus

     I made this Tychus hat for my daughters friend, Michael.  He works at Cedar Point in Sandusky, OH.  The nights can be cold and he asked me to knit him a hat to keep his head warm, he went to Knitty and picked this out.  Here is my son Nick modeling.

     I really liked the pattern.  It was my first project with short rows and it was very easy.  The pattern called for Red Heart Super Saver held doubled.  It was the first time I knitted something that was really hard on my hands.  It was so thick knitting with it, it killed my hands and right shoulder.  I am a really tight knitter, though.  All the thickness really made the hat bulky, much bulkier than it looks on Knitty.

     I love the way the striping is up and down.  I think I am going to make it again and use a better yarn.  I also am going to try with a single strand and see if it will fit Bella.  Its a nice project to use up any left-overs.

     The specs-
                          Tychus from Knitty
                          Red Heart Super Saver Yarn in White and Royal held doubled
                          Size 9 needles

Bella's Namesake

     Our beautiful baby granddaughter Bella has a new fairy bearing her name!  Jenny over at Allsorts is a children's book illustrator and recently posted pictures of the new fairies she had drawn.  I commented and asked what their names were and she had not named them yet, so she decided to have a contest.  Well, she picked my names.  Lily, Bliss, Faye, and of course, Bella!

     Well, we here at the Morris house think she is the cutest little fairy ever!!  Me and my husband are constantly amazed at how much fun a grandchild is.  We love our children and had so much fun raising them, but there is just something about a grandbaby.  I am sure all you out there with them will agree!!  They are your baby's baby, what can be more precious than that!!!!

   Most of the knitting that goes on here is for Bella.  This is a blanket I made for her to use in the hospital.  It is made out of Plymouth Heaven, which is the softest yarn I have ever felt.  It was perfect to put on a little newborns skin.  And we had her clothes off constantly so we could gaze at every inch of her!!

     Jenny made an adorable little quilt as a gift for the prize.

I am going to hang it in Bella's room!!!

We took Bella for her first trip to the zoo yesterday!!  What fun!!!