Child's work

Miss T and I had great fun making a yarn cake.
Or is that child labour?
For some very odd reason do the yarns wift and the yarn winder not fit on our dinning room table. Our table has a curved edge and I am unable to screw my things on properly.
The only other table in the house is a desk, but it's upstairs in Miss N room. I would have to clear all her junk off first.
Lucky I have two kitchen stools, they work perfect and are the right height for a toddler.
She loves helping.
The yarn is blue-faced Leicester 4ply.
I have had it a few years in my stash, I have declared it part of 12in2011. But each time I go and look at Finished Projects in 12in2011, I keep changing my mind about what to make with the yarn. A small shawl, fingerless gloves... I don't know.
But I do know what to knit with this yarn. I bought it from my LYS today, one ball of Amy Butler Belle Organic Aran and one ball of Noro Silk Garden. It's going to be hat for my Dad, he has started a second round of chemotherapy. It was hard to find nice soft yarn in a mans color. I did not want gray or black. He looks ashen enough. The blue should look nice on him, he has beautiful blue eyes.
We have booked to go and see him in February. Again I am busy making sure our Miss T will be warm enough. I had promised her back in November I would knit her a pair of socks. We went yarn shopping, in our slippers. She choose the pink yarn - what else. I am using the normal generic sock pattern. She will wear the sock over a pair of tights. I have finished two things for the teenager, but she is never home in time to take photos.
PS: I won, I actually can't stop laughing.