rainy morning pics

 once again a week has gone by so quickly. saturday and sunday were busy days with a ballet recital and a visit from my cousin and her family and monday morning we actually managed to get out for a bicycle ride with greg. i'll put up those posts later today. right now it's dark and rainy. i'm glad we don't have to go anywhere.

 i took a walk yesterday evening right before dinner (consequently substituting bacon, lettuce and tomato sandwiches for the dinner plan instead of lentil soup) to our favorite yarn store in the east village: downtown yarns. chanda had been lamenting that she didn't have a nice end of year gift for her ballet teacher. i had actually knitted a shawl for the teacher a year or so ago, but never liked how it came out. so for a good portion of the afternoon i searched ravelry for a shawl i could knit up in three days . . and finally settled on one i had made before: 22 little clouds by martina behm. i liked how another ravelry knitter used a particular yarn that downtown yarns carried. i was surprised to find that they had the same color! i'm combining shibui pebble in fog with sensei mohair in smoke. the ballet teacher enjoys wearing black and grey and so i think she will feel elegant in wearing this small shawlette. chanda is looking forward to knitting on it also. (the green mohair is suibui cloud which rita, the yarn store owner, had the last two of in apple. i'm hoping to make one of my feather and fan shawls for a fundraiser here in my housing complex for a local family that needs help.)