My gran sent me a pile of knitting patterns from her ladies’ magazines. I always enjoy looking at these patterns. Many are reprinted patterns from yarn companies’ leaflets, but they are recent reprints and often patterns I would not have had access to by virtue of being in another country. I have never made any of these patterns, though.
Until now.
Just look at those POTHOLDERS! Yes, fair isle potholders with traditional Scandinavian Christmas motifs (a Yule Pig! a Yule Buck!) with crocheted edgings! I’m terribly excited by these super-Scandinavian potholders and I have the urge to buy some Rowan Handiknit Cotton right this minute!! Exclamation Mark!
(Sanity? What sanity?)
My gran also sent me various craft kits for Christmas decorations. It’s a bit early for me to get crafty but I predict that next Saturday will be spent at the dining table with scissors and superglue. I’ll be making kræmmerhuse (stitching not included) and julehjerter whilst scoffing gran’s peppernuts and IKEA’s pepparkakor. And Dave will be somewhere else because he always bit nervous when I go into full Scandi-Christmas mode.
Unrelated: stay tuned for a finished object. My Byronic Percy Shawl is currently blocking and it’s very, very pretty (and very orange).
those goats are *killing* me
Careful now. I might succumb to temptation and make a full-blown YULE TIDE pullover with goats, pigs, reindeer and petroglyphs!
Oh my stars. Those pigs and goats are begging to be on the BEST CHRISTMAS SWEATER EVER!!!
i think you should make a yule-piggy sweater. or at least mittens.
actually, it might be good for if you have to make baby stuff again.
@Emma: the only children I’m likely to knit for will be our nephews – and since they are Muslim, I don’t think a Christmas Pig sweater will go down well .. ;)