Jun
5
As you can see (or not), I decided to forgo the trip to Fairmount in favor of…well, taking care of something that will lead me to this post.
As I’ve mentioned several times this week, one of us has her last day of 1st grade today. This has meant…teacher gifts. Last year was pretty easy for reasons that are both obvious and not worth mentioning here. This year was a little tougher. What do you get for the Most Awesomest Teacher Ever? In our case, it was narrowed down to two choices.
Choice A: A large bottle of a Fancy Refreshing Beverage and a package of bendy straws.
Choice B: Something knitted and relatively fancy.
For many, many reasons we went with Choice B.
Here’s what I came up with:
The cloth on the left is the Let’s Have a Martini! washcloth by Claudia of Knitting Without Dog Hair is Not an Option. The one on the right is a somethin’ something that I made up, based on a washcloth idea at the localish yarn store where I bought the cotton and a stitch pattern from Barbara Walker’s first book. School Girl also sent along a note for her teacher, which has helped a little with her sad this past week.
I started both of them Wednesday afternoon, and finished drying them (yes, in the dryer) this morning. Immediately after I took the photo above I suddenly realized, “Idiot, they’re not dry yet. You have to dry them again before you can wrap them.” So I did.
I’ve been working on a couple of other things, including some more on Margaret and my Bat Shawl, but that’ll wait until after this weekend. Now to wrap up the soap…
Heh if I tried to do that I’d still be knitting the first one yet today. Speed is not my friend when knitting.
See, there are plenty of knitters I know who would be a hell of a lot faster than me. Really. For some reason, I really need the pressure of a deadline.
Oh, and she said she just loved them. It helped a little with School Girl’s sadness this weekend. She’s still not accepting this whole “I’m a second grader” thing very well.