This blanket is finally finished! I've been knitting it for a friend and doula client since the fall of last year. (One of my knitting buddies remarked the other day that it's going to be weird to see me without this project on my lap.)
I took this picture as soon as it came off the needles last week, before weaving in the ends. I didn't have time to get a photo of it completely finished, because the morning I finally wove the ends in was the day I got called to the birth. Just in time! The robin's egg blue color ended up being perfect for a baby girl named Robin. (Unplanned, I swear!)
It's been snowing SO. MUCH. This year I really get the idea of having 100 different words for snow, because each snowfall lately has been of a different quality. Yesterday J8 came in from outside and said, "the snowflakes look like milkweed seeds." I went out and indeed, there were these huge fluffy puffs floating gently and slowly down from the sky. They landed and collected, sitting so lightly on top of each other, as though the ones on top didn't want to disturb the successive layers underneath. But the most amazing thing was that their structures were visible: those six-sided, no two alike, crystalline shapes that we attempt to cut out of folded paper so enthusiastically in December.
I snapped some photos that I think are pretty cool:
And when I say lots of snow, I'm serious!
