Giggle, Giggle, Whack!

Yesterday, I lay curled in blissful darkness beneath a blanket. I could hear someone counting in the background. They got to 10 and, within seconds, the blanket was pulled off me and there were one, two, three giggling girls on top of me. 


"Found you, Mummy!"

It was one of those moments you want to pause, grab hold of, file away, then press play again and have it go on and on and on forever. Infectious giggling, all of us, for what seemed like minutes. The pure delight in their eyes. The love. The joy.

Then Pearl whacked me across the side of my head.

And that is what my days are like lately.

Pure bliss...and then a firm and fast plummet back to reality, whinery, whingery, moanery, screamery, "She pinched me"-ery, all-day-ev...ery.

But once again, it is Wednesday, Yarn Along day, and there is not only a finished project to show, but one I'm very proud of because I made it up as I went along...and it worked! Kind of. It will need some tinkering, so it's a good thing I have another two-year-old to experiment on.

The pattern is a basic circular-yoke, short-sleeved top with a pair of buttons at the back, though it would probably look just as cute worn with the buttons at the front. The yarn is Bendigo Woollen Mills Rustic 8ply in 'Elm' and the buttons came from here.

There has been lots of other knitting going on too - a trio of Easter Bunnies for the giggling gerties, and a winter cowl for me. I'll show those off next week when they're (hopefully) finished.

Ravelry notes here.


Knitwear modelled by Miss Pearl, she who confuses affection with violence.


Still reading, and loving, 'Accidental Tourist'.


Ginny's excellent Yarn Along here.