It’s National Pancake Day!

Get a free short stack at any iHop until 10pm tonight! All they ask is that you consider donating to the Children’s Miracle Network (kiosks in-store).

When I went to get the pancake picture out of Mr. Pink, I discovered a whole mess of pictures that I had forgotten about. For example, I never showed you this:

That’s the start of the second GBS – just to give you a time frame.

Katie made it for me! I got her to do one for my Mom too – it’s in red but the insides match. Isn’t the flower the cutest thing? Take a peek at her Etsy shop – she makes all kinds of bags and needle cases and fun things like that. It is the perfect size for a sock bag (holds a STR yarncake) and yet, looks cute like a purse. Makes me a happy girl.

This one is from this weekend:

Inside Needle Nook.

We were on the way to pick up Michael’s little sister (who turned 18 on the 15th – we were there for her birthday party) and I looked over and saw the Needle Nook sign. Michael is very tolerant of this kind of thing and let me out of the car. It was one of the best yarn shop experiences I’ve had in ages, the clerk recognized the sweater I had on from an Interweave (M was deeply impressed by this) and nobody tried to sell me novelty yarn. I’m not going to show you what I bought because some of it was for my Special Swap Pal (don’t y’all panic, it’s not a secret swap) and I want to preserve the mystery.

I also ran in Nease’s Needlework (I’ve been there before) to pick up One More Thing so there was a nice amount of yarn in my weekend.

The front of the blue vest is just about finished – I’ll have a picture for you next time. My next order of business is to pick a Bloomin’ Feet yarn and pattern. I think I’ve figured out the yarn and color, so it’s really just the pattern that needs thinking about.

I completely forgot – Typepad blogs have been giving me some serious trouble lately and not letting my comments go through like they should. For those of you that this has affected: “That is such a beautiful sock/sweater/scarf that you made! Was it hard to do? What a luscious yarn.” heh