Fun Monday

Sad to say I don't even know if Fun Monday is still running. However, today, decided I would create my own bit of fun.

So calling all grandmas you need a pair of these!

If anyone has their own little bit of fun how about sharing it to brighten up this Monday. You have a blank canvass so anything goes!

Sock it to me!

After doing this Fun Monday post about what we wear on our feet I got to thinking that I really ought to knit some bed socks that I could wear around the house in the cold weather. I know I should have thought about this at the beginning of the winter not the end. To tell the truth I did think and think and think but that was as far as I got.

Once I made up my mind I found out my needles and started to look for patterns; no luck in the nearest store that sells wool. I trawled the internet and found a couple of simple patterns that I printed off. When I was staying with Beccy we found a pattern book but I was not prepared to pay 17euro. So I decided to use what I had found on the internet.
There was very limited choice of wool colours so this is what I bought. I haven't done any knitting for many years and I didn't realise that my poor arthritic fingers and wrists would be so painful. I persevered and what, once upon a time would have taken me a couple of days, took over a week but one is completed and I've started on the second.

Sam has since found me another pattern, and my mother's friend also lent me a pattern, so I have plenty to keep me busy. By next winter I might have a basket full!

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