Snowflake

As Paul mentioned, we planned a short trip to Lexington on Saturday to meet our new neice. She's remarkably gorgeous for someone who just spent nine months all smooshed up in a uterus. Some photos:

She slept for all but about five minutes of our visit, but I suppose it's tough to be a good hostess when you're only four days old. We're planning on making the trip again next weekend, as Paul's mom will be in town as well.

I finally had the chance to give Beth and Rod the baby blanket I finished a couple of months ago:

I don't have a good full-size image of it, but it's made of Bernat Cottontots, has a garter stitch edge, and is about the size of, well, a baby blanket.

In other knitting news, I'm working on a couple of Harry Potter Gryffindor scarves for people in my lab. I'm following this pattern in the interest of authenticity, which unfortunately means that it's taking forever and is relatively mindless knitting (thousands upon thousands of basic knit stitches with a color change every now and again). I'm also not a big fan of the yarn I'm using (some Bernat acrylic something-or-other), but it was cheap and the people I'm knitting for aren't that picky. It'll be nice to work with something soft after this... I'm thinking it may be sock season.