monkeymom's Diaryland Diary
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Soren TV - all Soren, all the time!
It's been so cold here! We have a week like this every Winter, and it's terrible! It was cold all weekend, and I hardly left the house, which was fine because we had already gone grocery shopping.
It was my weekend off, and I stayed in the house and knitted, caught up on sleep, and read library books.
One of the things I was knitting was this mitten:
It's a pattern designed by a Finnish woman, that I made for Mike in Maintainance who is of Finnish descent and proud of it. He was talking about the FinnFest he went to in Minnesota a couple of years ago, and that reminded me of a book of mitten patterns from Finland that a friend gave me a few years ago. I went looking on the internet to find a pattern to show Mike while we were talking, and found this one.
The book of patterns that I have at home shows mittens made of fingering-weight yarns, but this pattern by Tuulia is knitted with worsted-weight yarn at 5 sts to the inch, which is much more do-able! So I made those mittens this weekend and surprised Mike with them last night. He acted pleased with them, which is all I require - a person doesn't have to love everything I make for them, but they should at least pretend to!
Last night before work I had a lovely time, sitting in the den, knitting on Scott's Cobblestone sweater, and watching SorenTV! The kids had the video camera on, and I just sat and watched them hanging out in their living room with Kim and Soren. It was great, and I could watch it for hours. I can't wait to go and visit next week.
Hmmm, I should knit some things to take with me. I have a pair of socks for Scott started, the first one is done and the second one is...started. Same with a pair for Carolyn, but what can I made for Soren? Maybe a Wallaby, those take four days, so yeah, if I start tonight, I can finish the socks, and get a Wallaby done by the time we go out there.
I'd better get started. I wonder if I have time to make a quick pair of gloves for Kim, too? She left a message on my cell phone yesterday to say that she lost one of her beautiful new gloves, and she was mourning its pink goodness. Or I could just buy some at Old N@vy - that's where I bought the pink ones.
12:46 a.m. - 2008-01-23
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