After all an easy pattern is needed for nattering, chatting to hubby, catching up with some of the TV we have recorded, and sitting down to celebrity University Challenge, whilst at the same time having a deadline to meet: New Christmas Socks for my feet on Christmas Day.
Thank goodness they have brought on the oldies for the mini series of University Challenge, and have backed off some of the very difficult mathematics and science questions, so that now we are getting relatively high scores, and so finishing with a more upbeat feeling!
As I took these out to the conservatory to photograph this morning, the story of the Iceland Yule Cat came to mind. I was introduced to this story by our entertainer at our Horticultural Club Christmas Party, and he haunts those at Christmas time, and eats those who don't get new clothes. Quite a gruesome story, and probably not one for the Children! So now the Yule Cat will avoid me at all costs, when I wear my new Christmas Socks!
To counteract this frightening story I offer the lovely WI custom at our group, to offer the Birthday 'Girls' of the month, a posy...this month is my birthday, no surprise there..and I was the only one this month. Kaye presented me with this lovely little Christmas Tree, which she had very nicely decorated with mini bunting in the same colours as the bunting we made for our WI Christmas Tree marking the WI's Centenary. There were the tiniest of stitches catching the smallest of pennants...Thank you so much Kaye, I shall treasure this little tree and in a few days time after my birthday it will be planted in the garden. When I was born my father planted a lovely Christmas Tree in the garden in Mauritius, and it grew and grew, until sadly one year it was blown down by a cyclone.
Lovely! Lovely socks, stories and WI friends. Ok, so we might feel disappointed to learn that we're not the only ones getting more than the usual number of University Challenge questions correct right now, but clearly, we're in good company!
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Thanks Gill, there is absolutely no need to feel disappointed! I think the oldies are not quite so fast as getting in the answers, which gives us a little more time to retrieve all the correct answers which are in there somewhere. We're having fun with these. Isn't it interesting to see how people have progressed since they finished their degrees?
DeleteThe socks are beautiful, Noelle, I'm wondering if the yarn is different skeins or all the colors in one skein, if that is the case I don't know how the various colors work out to change evenly in each round of the socks. It does look like an easy pattern, I usually just crochet the socks I make which are double yarn to make a thicker slipper sock I wear over my other socks to keep my feet warm. I find shaping easier doing crochet.
ReplyDeleteSuch clever people design sock yarn so that it just knits ups with the pattern. Sometimes the little fairisle stripes make strange patterns, but I think this is part of the charm. I knit on two circular 2.5 mm pins, rather than with four or five double ended needles as I used to. It is really so much easier. Are you on Ravelry?
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