Donation Time and Mother's Day

 It was time to send a few more items off to new homes.  You may remember the crate of knitting my granddaughter got down from the loft for me, it contained knitted jumpers I had done for future great grand children.  It was time to let two of them go, plus a several knitted hats I had finished recently.

Off to new homes

The pink jumper was knitted recently with yarn I had purchased from an Op Shop, and the navy one is a reknit of a pattern I made for my first baby Michael many years ago.  He is now 61 years old!  And the little hats were made from ends of yarn I wanted to use up.

What else?  I sent along this little blue and yellow cot quilt too.  I think it is so pretty, cot quilts are quick to stitch and enjoyable to make.

Cot quilt

I took these along to show the ladies in my monthly knitting group.  Not everyone knits, some have hand issues and come along for the company and a chat, which is nice.  We meet in a local church, which collects donations for The Nest Collective, who distribute items for new mothers and their babies, a New Zealand wide organization.  A very worthy cause and one I'm happy to support.  

Today is Mother's Day here in New Zealand, and I met my daughter for lunch.  I drove up to Foxton and she drove down from Kiwitea.  It was just as well that she had booked us a table as the cafe was really busy.  Mind you, that cafe is always busy, the food and service is great, but today it was especially busy with families out celebrating with their Mums.

Out to lunch

Nicky had brought me a gift.  What's in here, I wonder

It was some pretty sock yarn, self striping in pink.  "Breast Cancer Awareness Special Edition".  I had only just thought of starting a new pair of socks for myself, so this is very timely indeed.

Sock yarn from Nicky

After a delicious lunch, and coffee each, plenty of chatter, we went back to the cars.  As usual, there was a bit of swapping to do.  I had two good quality travel bags found in the loft which Nicky was taking off my hands, so they went home with her.  These had only been used a couple of times, and as  I mentioned to her, we purchased these for overseas travel as cabin bags, before we realised that pull along small cabin sized suitcases were so much easier to cope with.  And I had found a pair of hedge clippers in the shed which I was donating to granddaughter Megan to use in her  garden.

Nicky had things in her boot (trunk) to pass over to me as well.  A bag of lemons from her tree, and a big bag of feijoas, much appreciated.  The two granddaughters had sent along a little something - one of Megan's butternut pumpkins from her first crop, and a pumpkin pie from Emma.  Didn't I do well.

Pumpkin and pie

So I had a lovely day.  And I've had a phone call from my son Michael too, so that was lovely.   Happy Mother's Day to all you wonderful ladies too.