Potholders

Monday, January 12, 2015

Bad photos taken by a good mother

Oldest Son Ryan lives in Fort Collins, CO.  It's a wonderful town, and one of the biggest advantages to living there is that he can visit The Loopy Ewe in person. (He would probably name the mountains and beer as his favorite things, but The Loopy Ewe is one of mine.) He and a friend did visit this great yarn store one weekend, and he texted me to ask if 400 yards was enough to knit fingerless mitts. Of course it is, so when he came home at Christmas he brought his yarn - a beautiful skein of Colinette Jitterbug in Adonis Blue. I didn't start knitting until New Year's Eve, and then got interrupted by a multitude of other things. It finally dawned on me that he would be leaving soon, so I started some serious marathon knitting. Trying to be a good mother, I finished the mitts at 1:30 am on Saturday; the time helps explain these bad photos.




In an effort to further earn my good mother credentials, I got up at 4:00 am to take him to the airport! He's certainly worth it, but I'm definitely too old to function well on only two and a half hours of sleep. 

I am glad I had a deadline to make me finish and can now think of Ryan working on math in his chilly office with nice warm hands. In reality, he may be drinking a cold beer from New Belgium or Odell, or even whiskey from Feisty Spirits, but still, warm hands!

Raveled here.



8 comments:

  1. could we ever function on 2-1/2 hours of sleep?! love that you finished them...and got him to model them!

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  2. It's only the good mother part that matters. You are definitely a good mom!

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  3. nice mitts and you are a good good mom, I cannot function with less than six hours, I get very cranky!!

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  4. You're such a good mom! The mitts came out great and totally worth losing sleep over. What is sleep anyway? Hope you were able to function the next day! I know I need at least 6 hours to keep me going.

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  5. Those are great and you ARE a good mom!

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  6. You are a great mom! Wow...you must have been exhausted! Glad you had a nice visit and were able to send him back with some hand knit love. I'll be going to the airport Wednesday! (Yay!)

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  7. I am impressed with your parenting skills - you have raised a child who can buy excellent yarn and knows what questions to ask in advance. Well done!

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