Happy New Year!
See how chipper that was? Fake it ’till you make it, that’s our motto around here. We’re starting the new year – not quite the way we’d hoped. First, on Sunday we decided to go skating. We went round and round a few times on the skate-path, and Elliot (in his own words) fell down “a thousandy hundred of times” always bouncing up cheerfully.
After a while the cold got to him (it really was pretty fierce) and I took him off the ice to start changing into boots and such, and Joe said he thought he’d take one more lap and off he went. Well, he was back about 5 minutes later, hat askew and looking pretty wild, and pointing desperately at his arm behind Elliie’s back and mouthing the word “broken”. He was right. He’d dodged a kid whipping past at a thousand kilometres an hour and something went wrong and unlike Elliot, he didn’t bounce. I drove him to the hospital straight from the park and he spent about 30 of the next 36 hours in hospital having first a procedure to try and straighten it out, and then finally a surgery when that didn’t work as well as it could have. Covid rules in place here mean that he was alone the whole time he was in hospital and that added a layer of anxiety for both of us, but on the upside he’s got a partly bionic arm now, with lots of fancy plates and screws and the surgeon assured him that it’s now one part of his body that can never break again.
Second, the province is back in a modified lockdown. It makes sense (though I sincerely think that if they’d acted a little sooner things wouldn’t be so bad) and now our gathering limit is five people indoors and ten outside, and restaurants, gyms and other businesses like that are closed again, and all others have capacity limits back in place, again. Worst of all, schools are closed again, and health care is too overwhelmed to treat anyone for anything but covid (I refuse to use a capital letter for that word any longer) pushing off other kinds of non-emergency treatments. It is craptastic in the extreme, and a demoralized fog has settled over the city as we all hunker down to try and relieve the stress on the system.
Personally, I am fighting back with mittens. It seems like a completely reasonable response to the state of things, and if I can only see my people outside, we’re all going to need them.
I am adding thrums because it’s freezing cold, and also I think that puffy mittens are uplifting and cheerful.* I know maybe other people are making better use of their lockdown by cleaning something, taking care of their taxes or learning another language, but while I’m knitting these mittens I find it very hard to believe there’s a more worthy endeavor.
*I have a feeling that I might not be the only one, so in the next few weeks I’m going to do a thrum-a-long over on the Patreon. If you can’t resist the urge to thrum, find more there. Also this is not my first obsession with thrumming, so the archives here can be your friend.
Well craptastic does seem a good place to start. So sorry, Joe, and triple sorry Toronto. Nothing closes here, our numbers just spike and spike. In the face of this, thrummed mittens seep a perfect response, and the electrocute-muppet look of the inside-out one surprised me into laughing, so well played.
I am still laughing!
Thanks for the verbage label, rams.
OMG, ARGH.
Just. Argh. So glad Joe’s okay and back at home now.
But seriously, argh.
So sorry Joe and Toronto. It’s really a bummer to start a year. Gonna be the same here in New Mexico soon. The mittens idea is A GREAT ONE! Thanks for being uou❤
Those mittens look delightful. I wish we had anything like a coordinated response to the surge where I am (southern Pennsylvania) – my children’s school district went “masks optional” in mid December just as the surge got really going, and now I’ve pulled them out of school myself and having to fight to have their absences excused. I’m an emergency physician and the hospital environment can only be described as our worst fears from the beginning of the pandemic – everyone sick at the same time and completely overwhelming the hospitals.
This post is reminding me that someone gave me a thrummed mitten kit last year which I have not even looked at yet.
Clearly this is a sign that as soon as the needles are free that’s what’s going on them! (I only have one set in each size for dpns. Forces me to finish things occasionally!)
Here’s to another lockdown. We’re also in Ontario, and just as thrilled as you are. This too shall pass. With cake, because cake is important in this house!
Stephanie: Sending good thoughts to all in your family for the year ahead.
I’m glad Joe’s surgery went well and that he’ll have an excellent bionic part. Elliot will no doubt be a great help in his recovery because he’ll want to see and help with any exercises and be intrigued with the whole process … post the x-ray on the fridge perhaps?
Your sock rainbow was so beautiful, and the mittens are too … bright colours in our dreary weather are good for the heart.
The last of 4 people in our household gets his booster shot tomorrow, and today I shovelled the ice off the road in front of the house so the 93 year old in the family could safely get to the other side of the street which was clear and go for a walk (back and forth several times). Triumphs!
Sending love your way! Sincerely, Maureen in London, Ont.
So sorry Joe (also sorry Toronto). Will he be setting off the body scanners every time he flies now? (do you remember that magical time when we could fly to other places?)
I made a thrummed hat once, it’s never been cold enough to wear it. I’ve reached knitting rock bottom now and it’s dishcloth season but I was looking at gnome patterns yesterday so maybe there is hope for me yet.
Gnomes! And other cute little items!
Cheers me up just to read about them.
Thanks
Thrummed mittens would be more practical than my current knitting obsession. I have been knitting baby outfits. No one I know is pregnant.
But the items are so cute! And so relatively quick to finish!!! Can totally qualify as a cheering-up project!!
If you get desperate about a backlog of FO’s, try some sort of pregnancy support program…many of the women who need their help don’t have knitters handy in their lives…
If it makes you feel better, I knit baby stuff pretty much constantly (it’s so cute and fast!), and then whenever someone in my vicinity gets pregnant, they get everything I’ve made up to that point. They think it’s magic, but it’s actually ~depression~.
Oh, so sorry, Joe. Broke left leg at age nine, spent summer flat on my back. My second oldest granddaughter never showed any interest in knitting, took up a form of cross stitch close to needlepoint. Told me during a visit a month ago she would never knit because she couldn’t handle TWO needles. Just called me from Vermont that she is knitting, has two inches of a scarf, wants to know the pattern I am using which is the knit 1, start a 4-stitch repeat of knit, knit, knit in back loop, purl, knit that last three stitches, that Stephanie Pearl MccPhee one-line pattern.
Thanks for reminding me of that pattern! I’m busy knitting scarves for some reason. I don’t need any, but my brain seems to be able to handle the repetition. LOL
I love that pattern! I use it for friends who can knit a little/used to knit/want to knit again. For the musicians, it’s quarter-quarter-dotted quarter-eighth (kbl always takes me a smidge longer, and purl looks short).
Oh, come ON.
You should write a bo–oh, wait.
Yeah, bo-ohs don’t write themselves, except in our daydreams.
I wondered who might remember the story about Joe and his newly fixed truck that got rear-ended.
Oh come ON!
My heart goes out to you and Joe and the rest of the family Stephanie ❤️ Here in regional South Australia we have been virtually covid-free for the entire pandemic, but no more with the opening of state and international borders, and of course omicron. As someone who’s immunocompromised, a little too young to be vaxxed and two bigger littles who won’t be fully vaxxed by the time school goes back (and an adult daughter working in hospitality), I feel so very vulnerable and would very much like to be a hermit right about now It is a strange, strange world we live in right now, one that is no longer familiar, but I refuse to fear, and am so very grateful for a country with a wonderful (albeit very under pressure and building) health care system, and the privilege of being able to stay home for the duration to keep us all safe.
You are a shining light in the midst of all this, as you have been many times in my 17 years of journeying with you, thank-you x
Oh no! But that skating track is really cool!
Deepest and sincere sympathy to Joe. I broke my left wrist in 3 places falling on the black ice a year ago. Hut like blazes and I was in a cast for weeks. Glad he made it through the surgery but he will always know when it’s going to rain.
And sympathy to everyone else for what your are dealing with.
Knit on!
Those are lovely mittens.
Best wishes for Joe to have a very smooth and full recovery. Maybe Elli could lead the exercises?
My partner has various plates and bolts in his elbow and it does not seem to set up any alarms at airports. Seems so long ago that we were lucky enough to be in airports …
The Ontario hospital situation is very scary.
it will be a long winter – but spring will get here eventually.
Well, crappity crap crap crap. So sorry, Joe, hope your healing is as fast and furious as the crash was. So sorry, Steph, and the rest of Toronto on the increase in cases and the renewed lockdown. Happy thrumming, I believe it is a most perfect response. I’ve always had the motto of, “when in doubt, do something drastic to your hair.” I think I’m going to change it to, “when in doubt, knit mittens.”
I am so sorry, and empathize completely. I broke my thumb in a car door the week before Christmas and spent hours in the ER (after being sent there by an ashen-faced doctor from Urgent Care). Twelve hours after I broke it, finally got it splinted. I still can’t knit, but have ditched the splint at least. Those mittens look just like the right choice.
Speedy recovery to you and yours.
That sounds like altogether too much for any sane person to have to deal with. Very sorry to hear about Joe’s accident, sure hope he heals up quickly and with minimal pain. Meanwhile, anything distracting and colorful is a great coping strategy. We knitters with well curated stashes are lucky indeed, we have instant distractions without leaving home. I know it doesn’t feel like it, since we thought this would be over by now, but really, this too shall pass…someday.
I’m in Quebec; so it is similar to Ontario with restrictions (and curfew). I am so tired of being alone; today I was talking on the phone and all of a sudden I was sobbing. I was very surprised myself to realize how discouraged I can get at times. The friend I was talking to knows me well and suggested I do more music practice. I did so today, and it really helped. And I am knitting and just finished a beautiful lavendar v-neck, very warm, for myself. I blocked it yesterday. Tell Joe he is a wonderful man to try to hide his pain and trouble from his grandson. You are brave people, and thank you for sharing your life and your enormous talents with us.
Your mittens are fabulous!
Your sweater sounds just lovely, just the exact kind of sweater I would admire on a person wearing it. I too am often surprised these days by a wave of sadness. Playing music is also very helpful for me.
I’m in Ontario just trying to lay low myself. I hope for better times soon for all of us.
“Demoralized fog” – well, there’s a reason that you are a best-selling author. That is the perfect description.
And those bright, cheerful mittens – they are the strong beams coming from the lighthouse.
I have been knitting with bright colours, too. It helps.
This RN thanks you for you continuing example of responsible and reasonable behaviour during this pandemic.
That inside-out mitten looks like a party!
Just when you think things can’t get any worse the universe says “Oh yeah! Just watch me!” I’ve never broken a bone but from recovering from two knee replacements I can say that physiotherapy is a godsend. Of course, this was pre-Covid days but if Joe has any way to go for physio I recommend it.
And I love the mittens but here in frigid Winnipeg knitted mittens just don’t cut it. I wear my knitted mittens inside my down mittens and even then sometimes my fingers get cold.
I’m working on an Entrelac cowl right now. Of course, I discovered half way through that it was twisted so I had to take it back to the first round.
We will all get through this if we keep taking sensible precautions and encourage others to do so.
BTW, my method of lifting my spirits since the pandemic started has been to take online Zumba classes.It is impossible to be depressed when you are dancing like an idiot to fast Latin music.
For more dance moves look on Instagram for Gurdeep Pandher. You can learn Bhangra.
Oh gosh. I hope Joe’s recovery goes as smoothly as possible!
Well just CRAP! Having someone you love have surgery and be in the hospital when you can’t be there just sucks. My husband had hip surgery last year and I was in the same boat. Fortunately everything went well and now he’s fine. I hope Joe has a full and speedy recovery.
I’m so sorry about the lock down and everything else covid related. It’s bad where I am and I’m laying low and trying to be patient. I’m so done with it like everyone else. The one bright note is I have a new spinning wheel and lots of roving. I am also knitting dress mittens for my mother in law. For once I’m knitting with the trend!
Thanks for your post. It’s so good to hear from you. It really does help to keep me going! I hope that you and yours stay happy and healthy! Those mittens are awesome!
Hugs to all, that is all a bit much on so many levels. Mittens are a more than reasonable response.
Poor Joe! I hope he isn’t in too much pain, Or at least has superstrength painkillers.
We should have restrictions too! It’s absolutely awful over here at the moment.
I’m going to have to google thrum. I have no idea what that is apart from guessing it’s probably those bobbly bits on the mittens?
Oh I am totally here (or there…) for a thrum along! Into the stash I dive for some pretty fleece!
Elliott is so funny….thanks for sharing all the Ellieisms.
Good for you for getting the suckiest part of the year over with right away.
So sorry it’s started out like this.
Hope Joe heals quickly and the little fiend on skates has karma visit asap.
Thrumming sounds like an excellent idea. I love the idea of my own private riotous mitten cloud of color.
Sending healing thoughts to Joe and love to you and all your family.
When I broke my wrist and had to have surgery a few years ago, my doctor had me knit as therapy: beginning with swollen fingers in my cast, I knit a huge stack. He said I recovered faster than if I had gone to traditional PT. (Does Joe knit?)
A thrummed mitten Patreon! What a joy to anticipate.
I’m glad to hear that Joe is okay now — that’s a scary situation! My husband had a bike accident last summer and ended up with a tree branch in his face, and though the covid numbers weren’t as bad then, it was still nerve-wracking to have him in the hospital. I hope that the lockdown makes a difference; as much of a pain as it is, sometimes it seems like a wise thing to do to keep people safe and healthy. Mittens are always a good idea.
My parents had a fairly serious rafting accident some years ago and my mom has plates and pins in her arms. (She recovered nicely after lots of PT.) Now the family joke is that we’re are to make a mobile out of these bits after she has been cremated and hang her up someplace. Yes, we are an odd bunch, but happy.
I think your family is much like mine. What an interesting windchime that would make.
Lol! I’m trying to imagine the sound.
I hope that Joe has an uneventful recovery. My last skating attempt ended pretty quickly. Like Elliot, I fell “a thousandy times” and, unlike Joe, I didn’t break anything. However, between the boys practicing hockey stops and the girls pirouetting like ice dancers, it was scary at the rink (not even sure it is open at this point).
At least your government is attempting to cut down on casualties from covid. Ours is not. People will die, and some will really be unnecessary. I just found out today of one such casualty.
Hugs to Joe and also the rest of you having to deal with retreating back into more lockdowns. Sadly I think we might be headed in the same direction (regarding covid not broken bones, please). I find myself searching for the best masks and self tests – arrgh when did I get here – but also want to protect myself and the loved ones I do see. BTW-Just looking at your thrummed mittens brightened my day
So very sorry about Joe’s broken arm; high five to him for dodging the young speed demon, who needs some lessons in skating etiquette it seems.
Covid . . . I’m so tired of it but mostly out of patience for the many, many people in my location who still deny, ignore, argue . . . you know. Sigh. My patience with them is completely gone and my tongue bleeds daily from all the biting.
Thrummed mittens on Patreon! I can’t wait!
So I know this is sort of a weird clean-your-plate-children-in-Africa-are-starving but reversed, reaction to Joe’s misfortune, but being American, all I can think is how happy I am that you don’t have to worry about accidents like that happening because you’re taken care of. That is such a wonderful thing, and even though it sucks, I’m kind of giddy about it. <3
OMG, I’m so sorry for all of it. Hang I. There!
Love the colors used on those mittens. We need all the bright and cheery colors this time of year.
“Holy Cats!”, to use something I heard somewhere. I hope Joe feels better soon. Now that his arm has heavy metal, will he be getting bluegrass, New Wave, or rockabilly implanted soon?
As for the rest: Elliot’s expressions are wonderful; I think he inherited his grandmother’s sense of wordplay. The thrummed mittens look incredibly warm — are you making some to fit over Joe’s cast? And, I think we can all agree that Covid really should become so extinct that “Jurassic Park” couldn’t revive it!
Steph, I am SO sorry to read about Joe’s mishap. Sending wishes for a good recovery. Physio goes a long way towards good healing. Thrummed mittens look like 3xactly the right response to the Universe right now. Best wishes for 2022 improving dramatically!
Poor Joe. I don’t want any of you to break arms, but if it had to be one of you, way to take one for the online knitting community Joe. Speedy recovery wishes!
I have one mitten done and the second thrum mitten in the works, so I’m happy to have the push from the gang on Patreon. So sorry to hear of Joe’s experience; hope he heals well and you can someday laugh at his bionic status. I’m back to knitting socks, as they’re also very helpful with the front porch visits that have become de rigueur in these parts. Steady on, summer will come again, and with it will come some freedoms. I’m beginning to think we need to make Christmas in July a real thing.
I am so sorry about Joe’s arm. That must have been terrifying, his arm being worse than a standard break and having to have the surgery during a pandemic. I wish everyone would be vaccinated and stay masked so we can get through this faster.
I couldn’t possibly come up with more expletives for this situation and hope Joe’s recovery goes smoothly. Hopefully, sufficient physio will be available; it really helps! Love the thrummed mittens. Chin up, kiddo. We’ll get through this.
Oh, I’m so sorry for Joe’s woes! Your lockdown is annoying (but necessary) & the mittens are lovely, but having broken my first bone last May (after managing to avoid such an accident for 69 years) and enduring months of healing, inactivity and pain, I feel so much sympathy for Joe…and he had to endure the hospital experience and surgery all alone. Even worse. My best, most fervent wishes for him to recover quickly and experience little or no pain as he heals. Happy new year indeed…
The demoralized fog has swept north of Toronto too. Sigh.
The ice sure did set up in a hurry! Joe, you now have a really good reason to stay tucked inside. In response to your fall and a friend’s fall today, I have salted the pathway…I don’t bounce either!
Best wishes to Joe. You didn’t say if it was his dominant hand arm. I broke my dominant (right) arm tripping over a set of hoses near the concessions of a July 4th event in 2019. I don’t recommend it, but it wasn’t as severe a break as Joe’s and they didn’t splint/cast it – it was near the upper part, just below the joint, but it meant I had to baby the arm for a couple of months, which was pretty annoying. And it quashed some August travel plans which were later at least partially re-scheduled into December.
Anyway, here’s hoping his recovery is not too onerous, and you can knit him some mittens in the meanwhile.
Those are very substantial thrums! I don’t even have words (or ones I can commit to print) about how I feel about this wave of ‘the rona’, our collapsing healthcare system, our current provincial leadership, and continued isolation limiting our activities with friends and family who do not live with us.
I decided to try not to think about the crappy things and focus on how fortunate I am and other good things in my life. It’s a struggle.
Happy New Year to you and yours.
So sorry to hear of Joe’s misfortune; as one who has several such implants, I was told no issue with flying as titanium will not set off detectors. (They never did) Good news on one front, I suppose, if we ever return to carefree flight.
Knowing how painful another lockdown must feel, still preferable to my mind than the head in the sand approach taken in our region. Insanity is repeating the same foolish actions and expecting all to magically be OK.
Beautiful mitts; thanks for a bright spot on a gray snowy day. Sending healing thoughts and a virtual hug; stay safe and take good care. This too shall pass.
Bonnie
Sympathies to Joe and all good wishes for a brisk and total recovery. Maybe this is sufficiently craptastic that he is safe for the rest of the year. Get the bad luck out of the way early.
Sorry to hear about your lockdown. It’s hard to be without your people and aren’t grands a blessing! We have a son in Laval and it’s been interesting to see the diff in how things were treated in Que and now in TO compared to here in Sk. I’m sure lockdowns are a misery, but I almost wish they were implemented here instead of watching rates just rise unfettered. All this shall pass. (Please soon!) Hope you and your family get a nice long stretch of non-events now.
Best wishes for quick healing for Joe! What a truly awful way to end that lovely day. Hooray for good meds and great doctors/health care staff. My DH missed the bottom step of a stepstool and landed elbow first on a concrete floor. He dislocated his shoulder (right one, of course) and fractured his humerus as well as breaking off the glenoid process in 2 pieces. Joe’s injury sounds even worse than that! We’ll keep him (and you) in our prayers as we go.
I’m so saddened by the need for the lockdowns once again. We’ve been so cautious, are fully vaxed/boosted and have continued to mask. It’s frustrating that others are careless. We’ve lost too many friends to take this less than seriously.
The upside is that I’m going to have to find my materials to make thrummed mittens. They look glorious. Warm is needed now – on our hands and in our hearts. Wishing you blessings in this strange world we are living in. Stay safe.
Poor Joe. I, too, dodged a enthusiastic young skater – in a roller rink – and got a bionic right hip. Go Joe! We have to move over for those younguns. Young Uns.
Thrumming for fun. Way to use up bags of small colors used for needle felting. Mardi Gras thrums!
I was thinking about going ice skating recently, but then remembered that the last time I roller skated I fell down and cracked my head hard and had a headache for days. Ice skating is even harder than roller skating. As I’m getting older, maybe falling is no longer my forte. Sorry to hear about Joe.
Dang! I know I made a green mitten thrummed with black alpaca last year! Did I finish the second one? Where the heck is that project bag?! Lost UFO!
Oh for crying out loud what a way to start the year! So sorry.
In the U.S. there is no will to impose or tolerate community-wide containment measures anymore. So many people will not keep distance or wear masks now. I have been vaccinated and boosted but I must quarantine myself until omicron is gone. I have to do it because I cannot get that plague. I live alone and am able to work entirely from home. Lucky me(?) Also, people I work with are behaving horribly, two people have launched a personal, public attack against me, and things are unbelievably contentious. There is no one I can talk to and no one to defend me. All of this is hard. But not as hard as getting the plague would be for me, even if it is less virulent now.
I do have hope though that we are getting to the end of the pandemic. We’ve been through a lot already and have learned a lot of survival techniques. There is more to go, but we can do it. Also I’m expecting some help with the problem at work, but not for awhile, it will be a long process.
But today. Today I’m picking up my knitting to finish a little lightweight shawl with pretty little flower motifs in it, thank goodness I can still create beautiful things.
Please know you are not alone. There are plenty of us sane knitters out here who understand what you are going through as you stay safe and keep us safe.
Bless you.
Thank you!
I’m so sorry about that arm, and I love that he didn’t want it to be what Elliot remembered of his fun day on the ice.
My sister broke hers a year ago and her husband had to button her buttons and basically do anything and everything for her that required two hands till it healed. Hugs to the both of you.
“… as we all hunker down to try and relieve the stress on the system” – THIS is the huge difference between Canada and the U.S. (i’m in the U.S.) Too many people here can’t seem to burden themselves with caring about relieving the strain on the system. It is maddening.
While I would agree that the situation in the US is frustrating & dangerous, it may be worth noting that the US has something like ten times the population as Canada, which is a lot of cats to herd.
I fondly remember some of your mitten stories from the past. Rereading the archives is a thing one could do during this freezing cold lockdown!
There is an amazing positivity rate in my immediate area that is just astonishing. People here seem to think it is inevitable that we are all going to get it and that is all right! I do not understand that thought process at all!
I have one thummed mitten done and shall finish the second this month. It is on my list of getting a few of my wip(s) done!
I do hope that Joe heals well and full range of movement is achieved. Goodness!
not the best start to 2022 for you and yours. hope that the year gets better and stays that way.
also hope that Joe makes a full and speedy recovery. is he a patient patient? (my hubby really isn’t. it’s a wonder we have lasted 43 years of marriage!)
Here’s hoping that Joe’s shattered bones knit themselves back together as well as Stephanie knits socks. (Even before I was a knitter, I loved the concept that bones heal by knitting.)
I’m fully vaxxed and boosted, but back to near-hermithood bc I live in a predominately Republican county where one out of every six residents has Covid RIGHT NOW, but why would anyone do something silly like close the bars, cancel high school sports, etc.?
To say nothing of having thousands of people flock to the county south of me, with the same ratio, for something more important than saving lives — making money off a basketball tournament.
If I am still sane after all of this, much of it is due to knitting and to reading Stephanie’s posts. Thank you, Stephanie!l
My brother and I want to take the train from Vancouver, B.C. to Ontario, sleeping on the train. I told him the last time we spoke that I don’t think Canada is allowing visitors from USA–so we have to wait until the plague is over. I hope Joe is recovering well; my daughter is getting over a, comparatively, mild case of covid. I had mine in October, 2020, then the vaccines so hoping it does not get me. Anyway, I can sit and knit hats for the Free Clinic and baby hats and socks for Online Angels. And how do you ever manage to get through all your emails?
Happy New Year!
I LOVE the idea of a thrum-along. My daughter lives in Anchorage, and I’d love to make her a pair (or more) of thrummed mittens. Thank you.
I am so sorry about Joe breaking his arm. I have broken my arm twice. On both occasions I was nauseous, in pain and in shock. I cannot imagine how he held it together around Elliot so not to upset him. What a wonderful grandfather he is!
I can’t wrap my head around having to live like this indefinitely but from what I have been reading COVID is now endemic, not a pandemic.
What a brave man– he had to be in terrible pain, but he was thinking about not upsetting the little one!
Is it weird that I’m jealous of your lockdown? We *should* be in lockdown– should have been a month ago! The positivity rate is double the target our state government *said* would trigger reinstating restrictions, but not a peep out of them. Feh.
The poor little mite!!!! It’s a part of covid we forget until it happens…..not having family around at a crucial time as in emerg. I did a spectacular wipe out on the 22nd of Dec. Shattered my wrist. Six hours in the hospital by myself and no way to contact my husband. Yes, he had a cell. But his credit card had just switched so the provider just turned off service. Thankfully, it was my left….I haven’t knit, sewn, spun etc since then – insert expletive here. I hope little Elliott bounces back soon. Littleuns usually do.
I am in for the thrum mitten Patreon. Is there a particular kit I should order to be ready?
<3
Oh poor Joe! At least he has a good reason for his fracture. I’m always embarrassed to say that I broke my femur washing the kitchen floor. :. I also have long nails and short ones in my thigh and knee. Hope he feels better soon. And the thrummed mittens are great! I wondered if you could knit mittens on two needles, flat, and then thrum with a crochet hook. It seems like it could be done that way. Not sure why I’m curious, ’cause I do know how to knit mittens in the round.
Thinking of you and Joe and everyone. XOXOXO
Oh no! Poor Joe! What a way to start the year! or any day or time! Hoping this is the worst of 2022.
I’ve been doubling my mittens trying to keep my fingers warm so I hope to be able to join the thrumming KAL.
I am days late here, but all my best wishes for everything are deep. I hope Joe is getting along well. What an awful experience in so many ways for you both.
I like the thrummed mittens with the so colorful roving!
Hugs to you.
I feel like we have all been knocked down a thousand hundreds of times at this point. I am trying my best to take a leaf from Elliott’s book and bounce back up, but it does get harder as we get older. Take care.
A LITTLE BIT LOUDER AND A LITTLE BIT WORSE
There. It had been bugging me that no one had finished the rhyme for the title. Whew.
2022 has started off pretty craptacularly here, too.
We all hope Joe is doing ok!
And we can’t wait for the thrummed mitten knit along! Hurry! (Just kidding. Sort of.)
With that start to the year, I think think I’d have smacked that doctor for tempting the fates that that part of Joe’s arm can’t be broken again! I’m glad Joe’s fixed up and hope the healing goes well, but major bummer it happened in the first place. At least he was able to get it fixed, not shuffled between hospitals for hours looking for a bed for him.
Those are very pretty mittens.
Late to the comments section – I don’t think to check your blog as often as I used to and I shall blame covid for that, too – and I am also not gracing it with capitalization. I do hope Joe is well on the mend. Knitting is helping with the restrictions and my grandson is helping me get through it in a big-picture way, and I wanted to suggest as an added distraction: Wordle. Such a great distraction!
OMG! Post a healthy glass of wine I thought Elliot broke his arm and spent 30 hours in the hospital by himself. I was apoplectic! No offence to Joe but I’m pretty sure he (and you) handled the situation better than had the broken arm been Elliot’s. I’ve just now stopped hyperventilating.
On another topic, I’ve been grieving the ongoing loss of the gift that is Port Ludlow. Trust me when I tell you that anyone who is cautious and trying to follow the rules (in the US, that sometimes feels like a smaller number than it should be) we are all struggling and intermittently sad and angry. My heart is with you. Hopefully a path forward will emerge and we can reclaim a bit more joy.
Hello and Happy Late New Year! I am so sorry to read that Joe broke his arm. I sympathize. Yesterday, I slipped and fell on the ice only once, got up and felt I needed an x-ray. I am the recipient of a closed fracture in my left wrist. Tomorrow a doctor appointment, unfortunately no knitting. Thank goodness for your blog and YouTube! Thank you to for the wonderful pictures of Elliot! He always makes me smile and brightens my day. Definite needed it today. His young sticking out was just how I felt and just what I needed. Thank you. Darci
Oh my God you’ve got to be KIDDING ME!! Poor Joe… ♥️
I’m HenEry the 8th I am, I am…
what IS it that this virus means murphy’s law is also hitting its stride?
There are so many times I think “can we get a break?”
Sympathy to Joe. My aging in covid-place is breaking teeth….
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