Is it Thursday, er, Friday Already?
I am beginning to think that when you have a child, something happens with your personal space-time continuum and everything just speeds up. Someone of you physics type scientists out there must have done some studies of the localized effects of childbearing on parental quantum physics. If you have, please send me a link to that manuscript. This must be the case, or otherwise how could Thursday (and my post) have gotten past me without much notice on my part?
The Phil'Onde top is almost finished, but probably not exciting to look at until it is modeled by a small person, so today I am going to show off some yummy yarn I got not too long ago (well, a month a go, but given my space-time warping problems, it doesn't seem like too long ago to me!).
The fact of the matter is, I don't buy much commercially produced yarn without a specific purpose in mind -- I have too much of this yarn in my stash right now that I am not sure what I am going to do with, so I've been avoiding places like Elan and Webs unless I have a project in mind. But I still indulge in special, one-of-kind, made by individual people kinds of yarns from time to time. This yarn is Sophie's Toes, the Layers of Color collection. The blue yarn (totally destined for me!) is the Cerulean colorway. The dark yarn is burgundy over green and is going into my "man acceptable yarn stash" -- and it's decidedly more lovely than my camera was able to render it on the day that I took the picture (what looks vaguely grey in the picture is really much more green in person; the yarn reminds me of end of fall colors).
What made this yarn even more fun and more special, was the response of a certain someone to it. Emily (who actually lives not too far away in the greater Chicagoland area and is an amazing quilter as well as dyer of yarn) sent along some nice words about Z on the invoice, so I had to give Z the opportunity to enjoy Emily's handiwork. You see, Ms. Z's given name is the Polish version of "Sophia" and the nickname we use for her is the Polish version of "Sophie".
She made a beeline for that yarn. And then thoroughly inspected the label.
Ah yes, nothing like getting them hooked on the good stuff, early. And she already likes to watch me knit. After I finish a few other projects on my list, I might have to get her some of her own . Emily has some beautiful stuff in her shop right now. I think the "Love" colorway would make an absolutely adorable baby sweater! 
I love the expression on her inquisitive face! She's a beauty, Theresa.
Emily's yarn is great stuff. It's good to see that Ms. Z appreciates quality!
You think that space/time warps when you have a child. You wait til you have two.
Then life really flies past, & you suddenly wake up one morning & they're both grown & flown. & you get calls saying, "I was thinking of coming home for Mothering Sunday (2nd March in UK) & taking you & Dad out for a walk in the country, weather permitting." What a nice boy!
Or a request for mittens cos daughter knows you can knit, though she resolutely refused to do much in the way of learning herself. She didn't want to be like her Mum!
But they've turned out good kids, & good members of society, which is all one can hope for.
PS Ms Z is gorgeous, so is the yarn.
Oooh, I'd forgotten about labels! My daughters used to love the sticky-out fabric labels on teddies, and fiddle about with them for ages. :-) You have a real little sweetie-pie there - it's great being a mum isn't it?!
Eek! Is she crawling???
Wow. Crawling already! One of my best friends has a daughter who's nearly the same age (within days) of Miss Z and she periodically lets her daughter play with yarn and sends me pictures of Miss B playing with the yarn. I love those pictures.
Not really crawling yet, though she is very close. Right now she does that kind of military scoot across the floor. She gets up on all fours and can move her legs the right way, but hasn't quite figured out the balance for the arms yet. She's very dedicated to working on it, though, so I predict real crawling in a couple of weeks.
something definitely happens to the space time continuum. i blinked once too many times and have a teenager already. how did that happen?
Does John know about you priming your daughter for the decent in the fibre-world? Should he be warned? At least Z has good taste! :)
Oh, John is very aware of what is going on. A couple of nights ago I let her pick out the yarn for his next pair of socks (from a selection of nice man-friendly STR). Since my stash is still in her closet, it seems only fair to let her get her hands on a few things when the doors are open. Especially since it's full of color and while she can drool on it, there's no way for it to hurt her back :-)
it all began when people began to rub your belly. that is where your space time continuim is encased. there will be a dramatic shift forward after Z is 5. time will zip by even faster!
I love the yarn. Such great colors.
I wish I could leave yarn out like that (no children, but my cat is a voracious little yarn eater when she can), because I'd love to be able to just sit and admire it.
Instead I'll admire your yarn and your beautiful little girl.
I am honored to be a part of your blog post! Those pictures are adorable! You sure are raising that girl right. (One of my Sophie's first words was yarn --"Harn")