The whole weekend it has been nasty outside: foggy and cold. J didn’t care as long as there was enough light to play basketball, and M would do computer stuff. We had a friend staying with us for 2 nights. Her and I hadn’t seen each other in years. She brought her knitting along and the two of us would talk and laugh and knit, and talk and laugh and knit … It turns out that nasty weather isn’t too bad after all 🙂
It was in the 70s and I must have been 8 or 9. My dad’s aunt would come to visit and this is when she taught me how to knit. The idea was to do a red scarf … I don’t think it ever became one. Instead, stiches on the needle would vary between a few and a lot, some would fall and then Tante Maritha would be there to rescue, to support, and to encourage. I still remember that little red knitting becoming longer. Bizarre.
… it’s (finally) cold enough for wrist warmers!
Don’t get me wrong, I don’t like the cold all that much but I really like to knit wrist warmers. It doesn’t take much time to make them and it’s fun: with or without thumb hole, with or without cable pattern.
Here comes J with the Morehouse’s Rat Race Scarf! Again, I have made an extra „belly“ part.
Morehouse Farm has some awesome patterns. So far, I have tried the alligator, the rat race scarf, and the cat wrap. All of them were easy to understand and not too complicated to follow, once you’re used to their idea of increasing and decreasing.
For the white one I invented the idea of a „belly“ by knitting a plain second scarf (no „scales“) and joining both halfs with single crochet.
