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it's been a while again! But I've got some stuff to share so let's get to it!

I finished this little sweater a while ago, except for the buttons. When my co-worker had a baby a couple of weeks ago, I pulled out some little whale buttons to finish it up so I could gift it. Baby Drake will look cute this winter I think!

Last week had plenty of knitting fun for me. It was World Wide Knit In Public Day (WWKIP) and I headed to the Charlotte Knitting Guild's event after taking Little Man to the library to sign up for summer reading and some puzzle time. I got to see some Charlotte Purls that I haven't seen in a while, and I worked on my February Lady Sweater.

The event was from 11-3, and I left early to head to another knitting meet up with the Knit Nuts who I hadn't seen in months.

While driving there, Stacey called me to let me know I had won a door prize. I was already thrilled that I picked up this skein of Debbie Bliss yarn from the swap, but the gift certificate I won was a welcome surprise. Then, while knitting with the Knit Nuts, Stacey texted me to tell me I had won the Charlotte Knitting Guild membership. So, that was great!

And the knitting fun continued on Monday when I received this package from Knit It Up. It's Sock Yarn Cinema's My Fair Lady Shipment. The yarn is so silky soft, and the goodies are always fun to see. This colorway is called "Loverly" (which is how the heroine of the movie pronounces lovely before she learns how to speak properly).


And Tuesday, on Twitter, I responded to a drawing that Knit It Up had, and I won...so I was able to pick out gift tags from her shop...very cool...I'll share photos of them once I receive them!

Like I said above, I'm still working on the February Lady Sweater, and I'm trying to chug along and get some scrapbook pages finished. As of yesterday, the above photo is an accurate representation of how much I had done...the photo below is the actual color. I have about 6 inches left of the body in the pattern before I start the garter stitch border. Hopefully another week for the main portion to be done. The yellow and black yarn is where there are stitches waiting for me to go back to knit the sleeves. The sleeve openings are a bit on the larger side, I'll have to see how that works out, but so far the rest seems on point, so I'm hoping I'll end up with a wearable sweater once I'm done.

And keeping with the knitting theme, I went with Little Man's pre-kindergarten class to see a performance of Charlotte's Web performed by children. It was a very beautifully done production with several zany characters that kept the story entertaining for the younger crowd. How is that related to knitting you ask? Charlotte the spider was a knitter in the play! That is how she made her webs! So the character was up on the stage knitting away!

Next post I aim to share about our recent beach trip!

Where is Craft Chick?

I'm here! I know it's been a while, but like I've said before, if I can't write something nice, I feel it's often better to not write at all. No need being a Debbie Downer for all of you who read this blog. (Although I have to say some of you who I've seen in the last week and a half were unfortunate enough to be around me in my doom and gloom, and for that I am really sorry). For those of you who have no idea what I'm talking about, I joined the hundreds of thousands to be laid off from my job. So, while I've been wrapping my mind around that, figuring out what to do, and dealing with holiday chores, I haven't posted. I have worked on some projects though. Two of them went so fast they never had the chance to make it on my progress sidebar!

My Mom's good friend's daughter is having twins, and I'm making sweaters for them (one blue, one pink). I turned to the 5-Hour baby sweater (which is more like the 7-8 hour sweater) and knit the first one in 2 days in pink. I did not use the correct weight yarn however and so the sweater will be knit again. The one I made would be wearable, but I would hate it if it only fit for a few weeks!

The boy version I did using the correct weight yarn, and it has a less fancy yoke and buttons closed instead of the tie used for the girl version.

The other note-worthy thing that we did was to attend a children's play at ImaginOn again. we went last year and had so much fun I knew we had to go again. It took a year to get back, but seeing Little Man's face watching The Velveteen Rabbit come alive was heartwarming. Before we left he modeled his peacoat from Auntie Tenasha and enjoyed making funny faces for the camera.

We got to ImaginOn a little early, and while the library area was closed, we were able to enjoy the gingerbread houses that were created by area students and were displayed.

After the performance we were in the lobby when this tree decorated with origami cranes caught my eye. The cranes were made in connection to the play A Thousand Cranes, but it reminded me of my first Christmas tree with Hubby. We folded about 50 gold cranes to decorate our tree. It was simple, and our tree now bears little resemblance to our humble decoration beginnings, but that first tree was still beautiful. It represented one of the first times Hubby went along with a wacky craft idea of mine :)

By the time the play was over it was past Little Man's bedtime and he was getting cranky so we headed home. And I picked up my needles and knit some more!

Once upon A Time...

Once upon a time a little family went to a great free exhibit at the local library and saw an exhibit that the son thought was great...it was called Once Upon A Time and it was an interactive fairy tale exhibit.

The little boy started by crawling through a "mole hole," and then went on to hear "Boogie Woogie Fairy Tales."

Then he pretended to feast like a king.

Then the prince went for a carriage ride and watched the pretend scenery that played on a television behind the window opening.

Then he climbed up a beanstalk...

and slid down a slide...

And then Prince Little Man played on and on and spread happiness wherever he traveled.

This great exhibit and the storytime that preceded it were both available free at ImaginOn which is a combined effort of the nationally recognized Charlotte-Mecklenburg Library System and the Children's Theatre of Charlotte. Even the underground parking was free (up to the first 90 minutes). There is also a trolley that children can play in and lots more; we look forward to going back again and again to explore all there is to do.