(a.k.a. The entry in which I gush about the lovely people I am lucky enough to call family.)

My mom called this weekend to tell me she finished her socks! She posted a photo to her Flickr page but set it as friends-only viewing. I asked her why and she said because she didn’t think anyone would be interested in seeing them. I disagree.

Aren’t they lovely?! (Click to see a larger version of the photo.)

I can’t believe those are her first pair. I don’t think my first pair of socks looked nearly that good. If I remember correctly, she used Wool in the Woods Cherub and the pattern was Heather Strips and Stripes.

One of these days I’m going to get my mom to start blogging. (I’m currently working on setting up a site for her custom embroidery and quilting at UnbrokenThread.com.) I’d love to see her share some of her beautiful work online and get into the whole craft-blogging “scene” too. I mean, look at what else she finished over the weekend:

I wish you could see the detail of the quilting. It was the first project she’s completed on her long-arm quilting machine. I’m telling you, my mom is a crafty wonder-woman.

Then Nick surprised me over the weekend when he interrupted my knitting and audiobook-listening to ask if I had some scrap fleece around.

He wanted to make… get this… a radar detector cozy. Seriously.

Well, perhaps “cozy” isn’t quite the right term. More of a little sack to put it into so he could safely tuck it under the seat in his car out of sight… or something. (I don’t really claim to get it.)

I was so pleased that he wanted to do something (*gasp*) crafty that I was more than happy to put down my knitting and help. Not that he needed much help, really. He was in luck because I had some leftover blue fleece from the bedding I’d made for the ferrets not long ago. So he set to work crafting himself a little bag for his radar detector.

He wielded a rotary cutter like a pro and seemed as “at home” at the pedal of a sewing machine as he is at the gas pedal of his car.

I had this weird sense of pride watching him work on this project. (He’d probably think I was nuts if I told him that.) I just think it’s so cool that he can tear apart cars and rewire electronics but that he can also sew if the mood strikes him. He’s a pretty impressive guy.