The landscaping was planted around our house. We are still waiting for the sod. We've had a wet spring so a lot of our yard is washing away into the pond behind the house. I hope the sod comes soon. It is very depressing seeing the mud everywhere.
I managed to finish up a couple WIPs.
Letho is done! I redid the I-cord bind off around the button band several times. It was too tight the first time. Even after going up a needle size, it is tight, but I didn't feel like redoing it again. If I ever make this jacket again, I'll do a tubular bind off, which would be much stretchier.
Because of the I-cord bind off, it doesn't lay across the back of my neck as nice as I'd like, but that is my only real complaint. It is cropped, but since I'm short it won't be too bad.
On the positive side, this yarn was an absolute dream to work with. It is The Fibre Co.'s Cumbria. I have a little more than a full skein of the grey left and a little less than full skeins of the red and green. I'll definitely use it for something else. Maybe I'll get a couple more skeins of the grey and make a color sweater.
After I finished Letho, I pulled the Anker Summer Top out of hibernation where it has been since last fall. I only had to knit a little on one sleeve and then make the other one match. This is out of Berrocco Remix Light in Taupe. I got the yarn a couple years ago from Hank in Cincinnati. I'm think it turned out well and am looking forward to wearing it this spring and summer.
The baby blanket for my niece is still slowly growing. I can tell I'm getting closer to the end because each set of rows (over and back with one color) was taking me well over 30 minutes to do. Now I'm down to the 15-20 minute range. Once I'm done with the garter section, I'll need to do something for a border. The pattern suggests an I-cord edge, but after doing that on Letho, I'm not thrilled with that idea. I might crochet an edging just to finish it off.
Speaking of my niece, we had a baby shower for her yesterday. I was in charge of making all of the desserts. It was a lot of work, but I think everyone enjoyed them. She doesn't know the gender of the baby yet, so I decorated the desserts with pink and blue.
There were dozens of petit fours. The pink were filled with apricot preserves and the blue had raspberry jam. Apricot was my favorite.
I also made cut out cookies in the shape of baby bottles. These were a basic sugar cookie recipe with royal icing.
To finish off the selection, I made mini cheesecakes with red raspberries for girl and blueberries for boy.
April also included a wedding in the family. My nephew got married and all of my siblings were able to come into town for the event. Here we all are in are finery. This was the first time since October 2021 that we've all been together.
And to close things out, here is a picture of the cutest little guy in the world. He continues to grow.
He is absolutely perfect!
