Spring?

At these latitudes, seasons are more about changes in light than in temperatures. A crappy, rainy winter day will typically offer 4 degrees C. A crappy, rainy summer day may give you the chills with 8 degrees. Although these are the extremes they are more than real when you experience them. This is why handknits are always so welcome at these latitudes.

I hear spring is starting to show up around knitter’s homes. Cari is growing vegetables already.  Here the snow is still covering the ground by two or three feet and I guess that qualifies for winter still. But. The winter we have in December and January, with the sun below the horizon, and the winter in March when the day is longer than the night already (spring equinox is coming up this week!) are two completely different seasons. And although the snow is still deep, you can see it dripping from the roof or feel the sun on your face on a warm day. Two moths ago it never got above the horizon, now she is high in the sky when I wake up in the morning (although that doesn’t always happen as early as it should).

So it is very easy to forget that it is still cold, and boldly cross the doorstep with too thin a jacket and no mittens. So ready to give up on the wools, still knowing it will backfire and give you a nasty spring cold. I don’t want my friends to get a spring cold. I want them to have warm, happy feet in spring colours.

Pattern: My standard sock, 56 st, 1×1 rib, eye of partridge flap heel. I’ll write down the pattern some day.

Needles: Clover 2 mm bamboo dpns

Yarn: Regia Canadian colour, lost the ball band but think it was 4726 Columbia and I got it in a yarn swap with Fuglemamma.
A friend asked if I could knit her a pair of socks for her birthday and I was happy to do so cause I knew she would appreciate the work and because I had some yarn in a colour that screams her name. I originally wanted to make the pretty Daisies socks but after knitting the first leg it became painfully obvious that one should knit these in a contrast colour compared to your skin, and light blue is by no means a contrast to any Scandinavian skin this time of the year.  So I ripped and made plain socks,  but I do recommend the pattern if you want to give it a try. Here the plain socks are modeled by my feet which are three sizes larger than my friend’s feet. I didn’t dare trying to pull the sock heels over my own heels but you get the picture. I had access to her foot when I closed the toe on the first one so I know they fit her perfectly even if I only used 60 g yarn.

I’m also happy to say that I have finished the other two items on my UFO list (that does not mean I’m out of UFOs though!) and have cast on for something green that will accompany me when I go on Easter vacation tomorrow. Bringing almost a kilo of yarn with me, I’ll be happy and knitting whatever happens and I wish the same for you!