Cool crochet pony

I find myself, for the first time in a long while, without a fiber project. I finished Dad's hat and Mason's hat and I don't feel like anyone else is in urgent need of a hat. Summer is coming, yo. I'll get a picture of Dad's hat before I send it off, I'll have to beg Carrie for a picture of Mason's.

Below is the current state of my stash:

 I want to turn the medium weight subset into this without, you know, a whole lot of effort.

London

Nick and I went to Europe to visit our far-flung friends. It was a hoot. First stop: London to see Raj and Vivek. Varun came out for a few days as well. We traipsed past the Victoria Memorial between stops on our culinary tour of London.

We visited the Sherlock Holmes museum and hiked all over London in search of fresh squeezed orange juice. Nick had miraculous international data on his tablet so we got lost less than you might expect. 

We rode the underground out to Richmond and hiked back along the Thames. To fortify ourselves, delicious chocolates and gelato were obtained from Danieli on the Green. THe original prime meridian was marked on the path. We had lunch in a bar where we confounded the waitress by asking if the cider was hard. Later, we played fetch with a Fox Terrier and talked with her very friendly owner for a while.

 
Our last day we spend in Oxford, visiting Balliol and punting. Nick got a haircut and I found a cute little game shop where we picked up Cthulu Gloom for Raj and Vivek and a book of goemtric quilt patterns for me.

 Not pictured: many games of Gloom, 7 Wonders, and Chrononauts. Delicious Indian curries and dosas. The space-age shower.