So this arrived this morning by e mail from the DD and the children were out in it straight after breakfast and are still out putting the finishing touches to the snowman.
I think the little person is about to amuse her brother by wanging a snowball, but I could be wrong. He's a patient lad and does his best even though she is inclined to wind him up unmercifally!!
So, I decided I needed a pair of gloves and a few days ago I got knitting. I have been knitting for a long long time, but have never knitted gloves or socks. One thing the Ravelry site has taght me is that you have not arrived in the knitting world until you have knitted socks at the very least. How hard can it be to knit a few fingers! Well it's very hard and fiddly, but I invested in some lovely birch DPNs and raided the handspun stash for the yarn. The pattern I am using is in this month's edition of Yarn Forward magazine under the title of "Fern" the pattern is very pretty and although it looks complicated, it's not difficult to follow and I have only ripped it back once!
My yarn is Blue Faced Leicester dyed by me with Landscape dyes in pretty pastel colours and spun very fine. I thought the yarn would not be robust enough to use this way, but it is easy to knit, doesn't shred and will look lovely after blocking. I may even have enough left to knit a small scarf!
So far so good, but I think it's unlikely that I will get them finished in time for tomorrow and I doubt I'll be able to use them for building snowmen, gardening or anything but light ladylike duties! Back to the grind stone, as DH has reminded me that I'm helping him make a leek and bacon flan for tea and so the remaining fingers will have to wait!
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