I guess winter has been a bit late this year, but it has finally arrived. Usually the flu and colds start in October, but this year we managed to stave it off until last week. Actually, I believe it really started during the weekend when my daughter’s hockey team had a tournament in Peterborough. They played very well and after the round-robin games they were first in their division and advanced straight to the final.
But in the meantime one of the girls on the team (not mine) succumbed to a terrible stomach flu. Fortunately she recovered in time for the final, and the girls won. A great big congratulations to the gold medalists!
And speaking of winners – it’s time to announce the winner of California Revival Knits. The random number generator tells me that Ellen M is the winner. CONGRATULATIONS! The book will appear in your Ravelry library shortly. Enjoy.
Anyhow, we returned home with our very own gold medalist. And while she managed to escape the flu, her brother was not quite so lucky. He must have caught a different strain, because (luckily) there were no upset stomachs involved, but he and I were both down with it last week. And I have to say that being sick does not really go well with designing, so I had to put away the projects I was working on and cast on something a little more straightforward. Enter the Dancing Swedish Twins (that would be the Sedin brothers – more hockey, of course).
One of the first skeins of yarn I bought from indigodragonfly was a skein in the colour way Dancing Swedish Twins. I originally bought it for my daughter and she started to knit a shawl from it. But for some reason the shawl never progressed very far and the skein has just been sitting around in the stash. So I thought that this would be a good time to use it. Since the colours are so bright, I thought it was best to pick a relatively simple design, so here is my very own recipe for a twisted rib sock.
The second one is coming along too. I mean, with a name like that, it really must have a twin sock to go with it.
