the blue blog archives: flurries

We're in the midst of our first major snowstorm of the season right now. The kids were let out of school early, the emergency shopping has been done and now the snow is falling fast. The boys are so excited to get out and play in it! For now, we wait and watch.

Tilli Tomas's Flurries yarn! It's the most beautiful soft pink merino with glass beads - I couldn't resist it at my lys. (There's even a sweet baby hat pattern for it!) While it snows outside, I'll be knitting this into a new hat for wee one.

posted by alison at 3:38 pm | in baby, it's cold outside

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Hey! That's my radar map! We're in Syracuse and I swear we're the only one left in this town that loves a good snow storm.

I'll be working on baby blankets and watching the Polar Express with my son. Stay warm!

Posted by: Angela at December 19, 2008 4:01 PM

Looks like you'll be getting what we got here in Michigan this morning. It actually ended up not being as bad (12 inches!) as they were predicting, I think we maybe got about 6 or so.

Stay warm!

Posted by: Jen at December 19, 2008 4:21 PM

I hope everything will be fine for you guys. Here in Indiana we just got ice and then it warmed up today (but it's suppose to be COLD tomorrow night). Stay warm and hope the kids have fun in that snow.

Posted by: Amy at December 19, 2008 4:27 PM

Yeah for snow! We just got inside from playing in it. Kaya liked it, but Naomi wanted nothing to do with it... she just wanted to go back inside.

I'll have to find something as fabulous as that Tilly Thomas yarn to knit with in this Winter Wonderland.

Posted by: Johanna at December 19, 2008 4:42 PM

Jen got lucky - in my part of Michigan, we DID get 12 inches. Every single school in the county was closed EXCEPT for my son's preschool! Stay warm!

Posted by: heather t at December 19, 2008 5:56 PM

Beautiful yarn! I've never seen it before. Are the beads strung all throughout the yarn? Hope your boys have fun with the snow. I wish we could get a foot or two here.

Posted by: Jane at December 19, 2008 6:52 PM

Yes Jane, the beads are on a separate strand that is plied loosely together with the merino strand. They're so pretty.

Posted by: alison at December 19, 2008 6:57 PM

Love that yarn. The pattern that you're going to use is too cute. I wish we had a little bit of cool air here (Chas, SC) actually. It's been unseasonably warm this past week. Can you say 77 degrees and breezy?

Posted by: Laura at December 19, 2008 8:15 PM

OOoh, I love Tilli Tomas. I have made a scarf out of Disco Lights and it is spectacular.

We have been getting our own winter blast out here in the Seattle area. Not a lot of accumulation, but the ice layer on the streets is really treacherous. My Dh got into a collision yesterday trying to make it to work and school has been closed 3.5 days this week.

Today we walked (slid) to the grocery store. I am more nervous about the high winds predicted tomorrow. Usually that means power outages and it is really cold.

I may have to just curl up in front of the fire and knit.

When I was your boys' age, our family lived in Bedford, MA, and I remember the fantastic winters there. We had a pond across the street and we would ice skate there. It was at that age and time that my grandmother taught me to knit!

Posted by: Sandee at December 20, 2008 2:31 AM

The Wee One is a lucky girl - that will be an adorable hat.

Posted by: ellen at December 20, 2008 9:13 AM

It was so cold outside here today that my teeth chattered. But you're right---inside there's yarn......

Posted by: Bo at December 20, 2008 10:10 PM

I managed to make it in to work this morning, but a lot of people just couldn't get out of the house. Amazing what some snow mixed with freezing rain can do for you! (I'm just south of Boston, so it is probably just about the same where you are.)

Posted by: Seanna Lea at December 22, 2008 11:37 AM