Ultimate Symbol of Love: The Lobster

Oh my sweet Romney. She often gets ideas in her head and once there, there they stay. Sometimes she sees them through and sometimes she does not. 

During covid she started knitting. She was surprisingly good at it, really caught on quickly and taught herself a bunch of stitches as she made a scarf. She asked for the supplies to make a blanket. I of course immediately bought her several skeins of yarn in colors she had carefully selected. As soon as we got them home, she pretty much instantly took a 3 year hiatus from knitting. I'm still finding uses for that cute yarn. Yellows and grays...would have been darling.

Then last year she suddenly started knitting again, and made me a mug cozy for my birthday. Such a cute surprise. But that has been the full extent of her knitting experience. So when she showed me, with quivering glee, the pattern for a lobster complete with a sweater, I had some trepidation about moving forward on the project. But of course she won me over and we went yarn shopping. Picked out yarn for two lobsters - one orange and one blue.

Once I got her started, she was so quick at catching on! And it knitted up a lot faster than I expected. The final result is so freaking cute I can hardly stand it. 

It's so cute! I helped her out by making the sweater because she wanted to get it done in a hurry. This was because, of course, she wanted to give it to Nicholas as a gift. He was delighted, and soon sent her the below photo of his new lobster, who was keeping him company while he worked on lego kit.