Diamonds for Dad

Not bad for one day's worth of work! That's what you get with a whole lot of driving between our respective family house's on Easter.

This is my first time using Swish from Knit Picks and I'm really liking it. However, is it just me or does it take on that squeaky acrylic feeling every now and then?

Ravelry: Diamonds for Dad

QUACK

We came home from lunch and found ducks in our front yard.



Matt just tried to catch one but he realized it might be a pretty embarrassing experience for a 31 year-old guy to have to explain to the emergency room why he was bitten by a duck.

Saturday Morning Live

Here's how my Saturday morning started out:

My husband just stuck his head inside after talking to our neighbor (J) with the super-well maintained yard and said "I shouldn't have talked to J, now I'm super-motivated and am going to replace our entire sprinkler system!"

So this means, I've got an entire day to myself. So on to the knitting!

I finished Pucker yesterday - What do you think?



I'm on the fence about it.



Raveled over here.

And with that off the plate I started doing some prep on a LONG-overdue sweater (vest) for my Old Man.



I'm using the pattern Diamonds for Him from Knitty, and Knit Picks Swish Superwash (because I seriously don't trust him to NOT throw it in the washing machine someday).

There's also been some progress made on Laurent.

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Now I'm off to make about 10 pounds of Chocolate Swirled Rice Crispy Treats for tomorrow. I LOVE to cook, but manage to screw up almost everything I bake, so I had to choose something that is almost fool proof. And for extra insurance, I'm using this recipe from Cooking for Engineers to guide me. Have you ever seen that blog? It is one of the most unintentionally entertaining websites I've ever found.