snap pea spring cardigan

The much anticipated Quince and Co. yarn (Lark, in snap pea) arrived in the mail last week and the color was so inspiring that I started in immediately on my daughter's spring cardigan (pattern is In Threes, which I'm loving!). This has been such a quick and satisfying knit--the yarn is lovely (though my true test is how badly it pills once it's worn--any experience with the Lark yarn in that regard?) and the pattern straight forward and fluid. If I'm lucky, it might even be ready for a certain someone's birthday at the end of the month. I'd love to find some cute buttons--any favorite button sources out there?

I'm sharing another children's book this week, for I am still reading Middlemarch, and probably will be for quite some time. (Poor Dorothea--Casaubon just died, and proved to be as self-absorbed and dreadful in his death as in his living...) We checked out Valentine from the library simply because of the holiday theme, and found it to be such a treasure of a book. It's about a little girl who cares for a newborn lamb (and makes Valentine cookies) while she spends the day with her grandmother. Very poignant in the depiction of relationships between the girl and her mother and grandmother, and the range of emotions she feels as the lamb progresses from vulnerable and cold to warm and content.

Joining in with Ginny for yarn along...