Greetings from the Future!

It’s 2009, and the weather’s fine! This January also marks the second anniversary of Inner Child Crochet‘s creation, and let me tell you – I have some special things in store. (If you go over to the site, you may notice a few right away.) Chief among those is a stealthy release of a long-delayed pattern.

As of this month, it’s been three years since I made that sweater. I’ve been holding onto it, trying to get the guts up to grade it into different sizes, but I just don’t have the skills yet. (Still.) But in the size it was designed in, it’s a perfectly good pattern! So I’ve published it, free, in a single size,  with guidelines to help adjust the sweater for a custom fit.

Three other patterns made it onto the site today. Saucy!

Is now available to purchase individually.

The fireman hat is available, free!

And a cute little baking set is available, also free. So go visit the site, click around, have fun, and Happy New Year!

I Almost Forgot to Add a Title

So, I hope all of you had excellent Christmases; ours was sunny and quiet. Today, on the other hand, was cold and blowing snow! Fortunately I had something warm and soft that I’d just finished.

(This is the result of the double-stranded playground yarn disaster of a few weeks back. Turns out double-stranding is great fun! You know. Once your yarn barf gets untangled.) This actually only took four skeins of Wool-Ease to make; once I’d ironed out the design kinks it was super-quick to make, and I think it’s really cute. Did I mention it was really, really cold today?

On the other hand, wearing a little cape makes me feel all dramatic.

I’m going to see if I can resize the directions. I keep getting scared off by resizing things, and I really want to make it through that block because…well…there’s a whole lot of fun on the other side.

Oh, THERE it is!

Well, the kids are excited. They went to bed last night to half an inch and woke up to this.

I mean, the snow’s not that deep everywhere, but so much accumulated on the roof that it was sliding off all night. Snow falling off the roof is a lot louder than you’d think – Charlie kept waking up startled and crying.

Now, if you noticed that the view outside my window is a little different, you’re either extremely observant or you’re my husband! You’re also right. Two days ago they began doing this:

I took this picture after about five or six trees had gone down, once it became clear that they weren’t just doing some maintenance. Max was really upset. I mean really upset – crying, howling, pressing himself up against the glass doors shouting, “Stop hurting my trees!” Every time another tree went down, he howled like they were killing puppies in front of his very eyes. When they finished yesterday, we were left with this:

Which is very, very sad. They’ve started clearing the trees along the gravel road, too. I really love those pine trees. I just hope that they’ll leave some of them (or at least that they’ll put off chopping down the rest of them till spring!) but I’m not sure if they will.