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A snowy day and displacement activity

December 12, 2009 in Uncategorized by Sarah

Today I have been sitting inside and not going out.  This is part of the reason why:

snowday

There is a windchill warning, and I just don’t feel like it (it is -27 centigrade and feels like -40 — I don’t need to look up what that is in Fahrenheit as that is almost where they are the same).  I am not sure that anywhere in the city is better than right here:

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I made myself a nice pot of soup for lunch and continued working on a project with an upcoming deadline, which is the other reason I am not going out.  I am still working on it for several reasons, among them that I started these:

redmittens

They are Mari Muinonen’s Yellow Harvest Mittens from Vogue Knitting, Fall 2008, except of course that mine are red  (Hmm, I just noticed there are errata, I wonder if they will affect me yet).

I can’t wait to really get on them when I am done the sweater this weekend.

I really should make myself finish two projects for every one I finish for a while.  The number of unfinished projects is getting a little out of hand.  I don’t propose to be someone who only knits one thing at a time — for me attempting that would just be silly, but maybe five current projects would be feasible.  Now I will just say that I really don’t know how many I am “working on”.

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December 14, 2009 at 10:25 am

Anne B.

I’m with you there, we made soup yesterday, I knitted, and we stayed inside. Mostly. Lovely sweater in the Knitty by the way! Congrats.
Anne B. in Calgary

December 16, 2009 at 8:31 am

Sarah

It was just too cold to go out last weekend. Thank you for your compliment about the sweater, I am looking forward to wearing it.
Cheers,
Sarah