The puppy dog sweater from Roo Designs is underway for reals! After making a swatch of the intarsia design with students in my knitting class, I discovered that a friend will be having a baby boy, soooo....

A little navy blue Phildar superwash and some leftovers from the stash and I was off! The back knit up in a flash. Some of the Roo sweaters have a placket in the back for the smaller, baby sizes but the puppy dog sweater did not. I think it makes the sweater much more practical to have a placket, so I sort of made one up (and now that I look at it, I definitely made one shoulder longer than the other - doh! - I'll fix that later...). I charged ahead to the front, eager to start the puppy, but the white yarn I'd pulled from my stash wasn't quite white enough. Poor puppy will be on hold until I can get into the closet where the deep stash is located and scrounge up a better white.

Stay, puppy, stay. Good boy.

Wee one spent a half hour this morning making this little lego scene. When I asked her what everything was, she pointed out the house you go to when your car gets bumped and the other house your car gets brought to to get fixed and the house you go to to fix the bumps you get when a car bumps you. You see, we were in a car accident this weekend and, although wee is fine physically (her doctor checked her yesterday), it seems that psychologically she's got some stuff to process. Also on her little diorama: a black ring for catching oil that has spilled in the ocean. Man, does this kid have a lot on her mind!

In the meantime, there is knitting. I've started the Spud & Chloe Flap Happy hat.

Wee did an early try-on, because I read on ravelry that this hat tends to run large. And large it was! I've since cast on again (for the second size) and have worked the first few color stripes. The pink isn't in the original pattern, but any hat for my girl needs pink so I had to add it. It doesn't hurt to lighten things up a little, right?

I've been on a bit of a Goldilocks roller coaster ride with wee's Flap Happy Hat. First, it was too big. Then, it was too blue.

After I changed the original red to pink (for my pink-loving princess), I found that the original blue was too... too... too something. It just wasn't the right blue for this new combination of bright pastels. I searched the stock at my lys for a similar yarn (no, they don't carry the fabulous Spud & Chloe Sweater) and ended up with one of my old faves, Nashua Handknits' Julia yarn, in a fun bright blue.

I ripped out the old blue, reknit the hat and even made it through the dreaded crown shaping. (I'd read some warnings about the crown shaping in this pattern but I'm not quite sure what all the fuss was about, except that it's too big. There's a corrected version of the crown shaping posted on the Spud & Chloe website, but it just has the same instructions written out line by line. So, nothing really wrong with the instructions at all. I just skipped about 15 rounds in there so it would fit my daughter's head.)

And now, it's just right. That makes my Goldilocks very happy.

"But where are the pompoms?" she asked. "They're coming...."