Lovely skiing and crocheting week-end, in good company

Holidays are over, back to school/daycare/work… Last week-end we went to visit my cousin near Chamonix (the crocheting one): the girls skied and played together (their daughter is the same age as Prune), the boys went ski-touring… while sandrine and I stayed inside, crocheting by the fireside: Perfect !! 😀

See that beautiful sweater she’s started ? I can’t wait to see it finished. Of course she’s improvising it as usual but she also took inspiration from this one as I brought her some mag to have a look at…

She went shopping for yarn and I went along… Couldn’t resist some gorgeous “Silenzio” yarn, a yummy wool/alpaca/acrylic blend. Look at those perfect colors !! It was actually just what I needed for my new hat design, and I whipped 2 during my time there. Just need to finish them off, but I was just SO frustrated that both skeins seemed to have a different yardage:
– first pink skein I used was enough to make one hat, plus one earflap. So I thought okay, I’ll make the second hat sans-earflaps and use the remnant for my second earflap on hat #1.
– but with second pink skein, I didn’t even have enough to complete the hat ! :-/
So now I have to accept the fact that I need to use a couple meters from a third skein to finish both hats. I always have that dream of things falling perfectly into place, with just the right amount of yarn in a skein for my designs… Like that yarn was made exactly for my designs..!! 😉

Also bought some yarn for a hoodie for our friends’ little boy, born a couple ago. I’m not too sure what their tastes are, but they seem more on the keep-it-classic side. We’ll see where that leads me. I also finally started a larger Roselette for Prune (she’s starting to outgrow her first one) with some pretty pink acrylic recycled yarn. Nice plan, but as I got towards the end of the sweater I realised this one would weight a ton as the yarn is probably too thick for this size’s hook.
I thought this would be the occasion to work on upsizing the Roselette, but although the numbers should be fine, I believe that yarn is not.
Now I can either start again that “6T” size with another yarn, or stay with that yarn and a larger hook, and maybe downsize it… I’ll probably have to think about it for a bit. Either way, I’m frogging it …

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