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Please Join Me for the 2017 Mad Hatter Tea Party

Every year for nearly ten years, I have looked forward to the spring and the Mad Hatter Tea Party.  It's a chance to dress up, wear a fancy hat, be with friends, enjoy a formal tea, and support a good cause.  It's the chance to play at Downton Abbey for a day.

Thursday, June 1st
4:00-7:00 p.m.
8 High Point Road
Westport, CT

Tickets and additional information are available at www.ctyankee.org/teaparty

There are door prizes for the best hat, best fascinator, best overall ensemble, and best whimsical hat.

 

There is shopping, shopping and more shopping for a good cause.

And of course, there is tea.

Please join us and buy your tickets today at www.ctyankee.org/teaparty.  

The Augusta

Not to be left out, I knit a set of baby wash cloths for my grand niece Augusta who is due any day and presented them to her parents-to-be.

This is a design by Kris Patay or KrisKnits on Ravelry called Baby Cloths.  They're small little cloths knit in a very tight gauge which really helps them pop.  I love the hand and foot prints best.  So cute.

I can't wait to meet Baby Gus.

I Was Wondering If I Would Get Anything Hand Knit

My niece is getting married this weekend.  For shower gifts she oohed and aahed over all the hand knit baby gifts her pregnant sister was receiving.  When she finally received a hand knit dishcloth and towel, she exclaimed "I was wondering if I would get anything hand knit."  Fast forward to the wedding.  I realized that I should knit her a set of dish cloths.  I found a pattern by Kris Knits called Wedding Cloths and quickly inquired about my niece's kitchen colors.

I was traveling last weekend and this was the perfect traveling knitting project.

I made three silver cloths - wedding cake, wedding rings and wedding bells.

Two Fiesta Red cloths -  Heart  in a Heart cloths

Three white cloths: husband and wife, champagne and dove cloths

Three ash cloths:  wedding rings, wedding chapel and wedding cake cloths

And the Valentine's Day Cloth patterns in Fiesta Red.

They were fun to make and look cute together.  They add a little happy to the daily chore of doing dishes.

I haven't used dish cloths since I was a child in Iowa.  Since I left for college, I have become a sponge person and have never looked back.  But I might change my own habit and knit a series of dish cloths for myself.  How about you?  Are you a dish cloth or a sponge person?

Can you feel the LOVE tonight?  Congratulations & Best Wishes!