yarn along

here is a post of my latest knitting project and read in a yarn along hosted by ginny.  

 on the needles i have a few things going.  i have been bringing a cotton dish rag along to all the beaches we've been going to this last week with clare.  it's the mason dixon pattern you can find here.  i like bringing something cotton and washable like this to work on at the beach.  i am happy if i just knit a row or two.  it's a great take along project because it is easy to memorize the pattern.  at night i am working on ezra's giraffe.  that is the body being knit up in the yellow wool on the right.  inside the bag is what you see below - mario parts.  i have not had the time to sew his pieces together but think i will have plenty of time in the next week when we'll be newly without our visitors and our car.

 this is a picture of the awesome yarn score i received from clare through her wonderful friend erin.  i met erin at clare's baby shower and we talked about my then upcoming move to st. maarten.  she had lived some years in nassau and knew what island life was like.  last summer when she found herself in a yarn store in durango, colorado she thought of me and my situation (a knitter on an island without a knitting store is like a bee without flowers to pollenate) and generously purchased this yarn for clare to give to me.  it will be used to make some lovely pieces for stella which i am excited to get started on soon.  i think i will be set until we return to the states with knitting projects and for that i am very grateful.  thank you clare and erin!

clare also brought me some magazines and i have been leafing through my favorite yoga journal.  it was great to receive this because i have literally not read a magazine in a year and a half.  they are twice the price here!  but, thankfully for blogland, my lack of magazines has been replaced with the beautiful posts of all the inspiring mommyblogs out there.  for more knitting updates be sure to check out the other posts on small things.