Our annual family Christmas outing to downtown Seattle was a wonderful day this year. It was the baby’s first year with us and our niece joined us again. It was a whirlwind day of Teddy Bear Suite, Seattle Center, Westlake carousel and, of course, our favorite part: the gingerbread houses at the Seattle Sheraton. This [...]
Two cute little baby washcloths I knitted for my niece’s friend and her new baby. I used standard 100% cotton yarn (Sugar ‘n Cream brand) in a pale yellow and a heathered green. Simple enough pattern…mostly stockinette stitch with 3 rows of garter stitch at the start and finish to help the cloth hold its [...]
About this time every year, I force the family to join me in an afternoon of messy edible fun decorating something made of gingerbread. Sometimes it’s a gingerbread house…one year it was a gingerbread train…and another year it was a gingerbread Christmas tree. This year we decorated gingerbread boys and girls. I used the word [...]
We are quite fond of gingerbread people here in the Mitchell household. It’s one of our favorite holiday traditions. We found some wonderful gingerbread people designs over at Zazzle.com that are on the top of our wish lists! We really like the dissected gingerbread man and the gingerbread man with the “no-bite-himself” collar. Too cute! [...]