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November 27, 2005
Snow!
We had some snow this weekend! I so glad winter is finally here, after the unusual warm fall. There is a large possibility this will be all we get to see of winter at all, so I enjoyed it as much as I could. This is what the center of my town looked like after the snow had started to melt:
My feet got wet, but thankfully I was wearing a pair of handknit wool socks (which I always am) so they didn't get cold.
We did have a weather related problem on Friday, when we tried to get home from a big computer market in Utrecht (we're geeks, we actually look forward to this thing every year). The way home took us 6 hours instead of the usual 1.5 hours because of the traffic jams caused by the weather (you can tell the Dutch are not used to this kind of thing!). On the bright side, of course I had some knitting at hand: a pair of socks for T. from the yarn I bought in Germany earlier this week.
I did have to take breaks every now and then, because my wrists started to hurt. Anyway, we did get home, which is more than lots of people can say, who had to spend the entire night in their car, with Red Cross volunteers bringing them blankets and water, and I bet most of them had left their knitting at home.
Long lost
Do you ever forget things you knitted? A friend of mine returned these gloves to me this week:
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I had left them in the coat of a raincoat I borrowed from her. This was at least 5 years ago, I think. Untill the day last week, when she called me to announce her find, I had never thought about those gloves at all. I completely forgot I ever made them. Well, I still like them!
Question
Basak asked: I'd like to second you on the lack of yarn shops and the variety available in this country. What about the prices, are they any better over the border?
I don't think there is much difference in the price of yarn in Germany and the Netherlands. It's just that in Germany, you have so much more to choose from. Of course, you have to bear in mind I'm mainly looking at sock yarn, for that, Germany can't be beaten. I don't know about for example Rowan yarns.
Maybe that's what Maartje is talking about: I find it amazingly that you drive to Kleve, in order to buy wool. I thought always in Holland would be more low-priced wool. In the online Shop "ribbels - alles om te breien" seemed to me in such a way. I wanted to order myself wool in Holland!!!
Tina seems to agree with me: right we have some great yarnshops over here!
Maybe this also has to do with where you are in Germany? It's a big country. Any ideas?
Posted by saartje at November 27, 2005 8:35 PM
Comments
Hello Saartje, probably concerns it the Rowarn yarn. I compared evenly again the prices. With "ribbels alles om te breien" is cheaper the Rowan yarn around a few euro. If you click "Wollmond" on my website, you can look times. I love it to involve Rowarn yarns and Debbie Bliss yarns. Thus, for me it would already be worthwhile itself with "ribbels" to buy. By the way the gloves are, those after so long time in the coat were regained beautifully. The colors please me much. You seem to knit very fast, because you have socks from orange wool already finished. Looks good. I wish you still much fun in the snow. I have also always my cord things thereby. Many greetings from the snow-covered "Rattenfängerstadt Hameln", Maartje
Posted by: Maartje at November 27, 2005 10:14 PM
Aha! I almost can't believe now that i'm not the only knitting geek woman to look forward to HCC dagen!
We knew better, though hehe...We went on Saturday. Everyone had had their lessons from the previous day and it was pretty "rustig"...compared to the last 4-5 years I've been there anyway.
Actual conversation that came to pass between me and the bf at the beurs:
BF: Are we so pathetic as to go to an event like this once a year?
basak: Oh no darling, remember we've been to the Handwerkbeurs this year, too!
Posted by: basak at November 28, 2005 1:43 AM
snow....well at the moment it couldn't be further from my mind. i love the colour of those socks that you are knitting. they are absolutely gorgeous.
Posted by: jacqueline at November 28, 2005 9:33 AM
Hello Saartje, I would know gladly, which wool you used for the beautiful gloves. Perhaps there is this wool to still buy. I like that lila. By the way it snows here in Hameln also much. Love of greetings to Holland from Hameln of Maartje.
Posted by: Maartje at November 28, 2005 12:09 PM
the story about your gloves is incredible :-)
they are very cute and your socks too.
good kniting from a french girl in england...
Posted by: monique at November 28, 2005 12:14 PM
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Posted by: monique at November 28, 2005 12:14 PM
Six hours of traffic just for a little dusting of snow? I didn't realize that your climate was so mild!
I love the "lost and found" gloves. You do such beautiful stranded work!
Posted by: Beth S. at November 28, 2005 7:46 PM
Hi, saartje, your orange socks are very lovely...could you tell me which yarn you used? thank you...Mary in cincinnati
Posted by: mary in cincinnati at November 29, 2005 4:15 AM
Snow! I loves me some snow!
When we were in Germany earlier this year, we happened to come across yarn stores in both Nuremberg and Munich without meaning to. There were 2 in Nuremberg, 1 in Munich. Unfortunately, I wasn't in sock mode while I was there, so I didn't buy any yarn. Oh yeah, I'm kicking myself over that one.
Posted by: MJ at November 30, 2005 2:06 AM
Thanks for the snowpicture. I totally forgot to make one myself.
And..
I love the color of the sockyarn.
Posted by: Irma at November 30, 2005 2:46 PM
For sock yarn, Germany is probably paradise :-) For other yarns, I'm not very impressed ... In my city (200,000 people) there are three shops selling yarn, none of them proper independent shops. I've never seen any foreign yarns (Noro, Rowan, Debbie Bliss) in local shops, only online. I'm very probably moving to NL in spring, and I'm already looking forward to a browse through Ribbels ;-)
Posted by: Tatjana at December 1, 2005 12:03 AM
That Lana Grossa is so beautiful! Lovely socks!
Posted by: Lolly at December 2, 2005 1:11 PM
