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IT CAUGHT MY EYE…

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So, I’m sitting at the Crochet Club Meeting, minding my own business the other night, knowing I had to leave early to get to the airport to pick up my MIL who was flying in from India via Australia, when I spied something dangling from the end of a shelf full of sock yarn.  Just hanging there.  Lots of interesting colors.  Had never seen it before.  Gotta get up and go see what this is.  A SOCK SCARF!  It’s so cute!  I’m showing it to the assembled crew, raving about this.

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Joan, a Crochet Club member who works at this shop stopped me with “I made that at least three years ago.  It’s been hanging there since then.”  No Way!  Not one of the crocheters had seen this scarf before.  It’s knit, but could easily be crocheted.  Joan had made it using up all her sock yarn, so it’s a rainbow of solid, heathered, and self patterning sock yarns.

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The heels are so cute.  They stick out at all angles, tiny peaks in the narrow stream of this thin scarf.  Hope you can see them on these pictures which Ronnie was kind enough to take for me.  Isn’t she a good photographer?

The pattern is something like ‘Head Over Heels’ but I could find no reference to it online.  Perhaps some of the knitters out there can help us out so we can credit the creative designer who came up with this simple but practical, whimsical pattern.

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Reflecting on the Past Year with Kids

I’m in deep denial about the fact that new year is almost upon us again! It’s been the fastest and the longest year at the same time, and I can look back and see some good things as well as some things I wish had gone differently.

Doing a year in review with your kids — whether in the classroom or at home — is a good way to capture some of their memories and the things they really liked about the year gone by.

There are a lot of different printable year in review worksheets you can use if you want to make this super easy. Here are links to a few (often part of larger posts about NYE celebrations with kids that are worth a read, too):

  • Teach Beside Me has lots of fun printables fro the end of the year, including a year in review that covers favorite memory, funniest memory and the best book they read, among other topics.
  • NurtureStore‘s version has space for a self-portrait and prompts like favorite toy, best day out this year and future dream job.
  • Remember favorites, their “best idea” of the year and have room for setting goals for next year with this one from The Keele Deal.
  • The year in review from Yes We Made This has room for drawing or writing and includes things like something they learned, a memory they made and a place they visited.

Of course you could pretty easily make your own year in review for the whole family to do that asks questions based on what you most want to remember. (Favorite video game? Best friend? Favorite family memory?)

And if after the year in review you’re ready to look ahead a bit, Mrs. Merry has new year’s resolution printables to inspired kids to look ahead and set goals for things they want to try. You can totally fill this one out as a grownup, too.

[Photo: Mrs. Merry]