Where Has April Gone?

Good gravy! How can it be April 27th already?? May is so packed with parties, fun, and travel I might not survive it. Ha!

The saga continues with the lace sweater. I bought new pins, as promised, and blocked the little edging along the front and neck. Yep, it rusted. DUDE. I can't even begin to explain it. But, you can't see the little rust marks unless you're really looking, and the sweater fits Rowan perfectly. She wore it all day on Easter!

We had tons of Easter fun - hunting eggs, dying eggs, and eating lots of chocolate. My plan to not eat Easter candy? Yeah, out the window. :P

We also made some yummy treats called "Petit Au Pain Chocolat." Oh yes, they were awesome. I can post the recipe if anyone is interested. Rowan could pretty much make them on her own - super easy! (They are basically puffed pastry dough wrapped around chocolate, then glazed with egg and sugar.)

Rowan received some Easter candy at school that she can't eat (darn braces!), so she decided to return it to the Easter Bunny. She created a little bag (note that each little whisker, etc, was colored and cut out separately to place on the bag!) with a darling little note explaining herself. I stashed the note away, emptied the candy, and wrote her a note back (from "E. Bunny") to say thank you, and that she should keep her darling bag. You should have seen the look on her face when she came downstairs on Easter morning! I was waiting, camera-ready, hoping for a big giant smile of happiness, but when she saw the little bag still on the table I thought she was going to KILL someone. Daggers practically shot from her eyes - she was SO upset thinking the bunny hadn't seen her bag and note. Of course once she saw the return note and the candy gone she was ecstatic, but her fury was so dramatic I almost laughed out loud.

Now that we've made it past the holiday, the craftiness has begun anew.  I hosted Knit Night last night, and needed a new project to start! While Brynn was at school, I leisurely browsed at Knit Wit and came home with yarn to make myself two new felted bags - I've been wanted to make one for ages and too many other projects got in the way. At first I thought I was going to choose bright, summery colors, but I just kept wanting to gravitate towards the neutrals. I'm so boring! I ended up with some soft spring colors (GAP would approve) for the first bag, and some deeper colors for the second. All are Cascade 220 - here they are:

And then this morning, I had a "DOH!" moment. (I have a lot of those.) Here I am, starting a bag for myself, when next week is Teacher Appreciation week!  I know (er, hope!) Rowan's teacher would love a felted bag, so Brynn and I dashed to Knit Wit again this morning to pick out yarn for a 3rd bag. Her teacher's favorite colors are "bright ones" according to her, so here's what I chose. I cast on and finished the bottom in between loads of laundry this afternoon.

I am toying with the idea of felting a chunky flower on the front of her bag as well - it depends on how much yarn I have to spare.

I will continue to post my progress with the bags - can't wait to sport something new and different over my shoulder (I'm way, way overdue.)  Cheers!