Virginia can’t make up her mind. The flowers that have been blooming everywhere were covered in a thick blanket of snow yesterday. We took a proper snow day, not even attempting to follow routine. This is what happens when the biggest snow of the year happens on the second day of spring, when we thought our chances for this year were past. I sure can enjoy the snow more when I know it will certainly all be melted in a day or two and life will settle back into some sort of a normal rhythm. Snow days are fun, but awfully chaotic and drippy. They also seem to inject my little boys with an insane amount of energy. I think the only time Silas has sat still in the past few days was this morning when he asked me to teach him how to knit. I cast on a garter stitch dishcloth and he climbed in my lap. For the first row, I held his little hands and chanted with him, “In, around, through, off.” By the second row he started catching on and I let go. He stuck with it into the third row, and then was ready to head back out into the melting snow. I wonder if he’ll want to knit tomorrow?
Debi says
I was visiting my daughter in Centreville last week and I was so disappointed with Virginia’s “spring” weather. I was hoping for some warmth (50-60 would have made me deliriously happy) and sunshine and I got neither. We were there for a week and we were blessed with only one nice, sunny, warm day! But I did enjoy seeing flowers in bloom as we have none here in northern New York!
Anna says
I have just read your link to Elizabeth’s knitting instructions – thank you so much, it has been such a help. I am a crocheter and basic knitter, but have somehow found it challenging to teach my kids to knit (didn’t even think of circular needles!) and always imagined, pre-kids, that it would be one of those things that would evolve naturally in my family. I’m excited now and ready to start again!
And I feel like we could do with a little snow right now – here in Australia we have just had another unseasonably hot weekend!
Marilyn says
Nice to see Silas wanting to learn to knit. HAPPY SPRING.
Marilyn
Melissa says
I’m hoping my soon-to-be a four year old granddaughter hasn’t yet expressed an interest in knitting, although she sees me doing it all the time. I’ve been trying to decide whether to offer or just wait. Thank you for “in around through off” and the link to Elizabeth’s emails to you and Larkspur. A little research informed me that Elizabeth passed away. How fortunate you are to have her emails. (The snow was crazy!)
Melissa says
Oops! I should have proof-read before hitting send!
Marion says
Ginny we had our first snow storm yesterday. ” few crocuses came up but no buds on the forsythia bushes or any thing else.
Marion
Joan says
Here in New York we had about 6- 8 inches of snow. your flowers are beautiful.
Joan
karen says
We had four inches that have already melted. No flowers blooming yet but I know it’s around the bend (hopefully). Don’t you love to teach little ones to knit? I taught both of my children. I was thrilled when last year my adult son said he wanted to knit a scarf and did.
Michele F. says
Elizabeth D. – so good to see her in that post. ?❤️
a little crafty nest says
Ohh, I gasped a little when I saw your first snow-on-flower photo! Silly, fickle Spring! And a new knitter….that is something to be grateful for. Happy weekending, Ginny.
xo Jules
Maureen Richard says
I love your photos of the snow and flowers! Beautiful!
Kelli Ann Wilson says
There’s something so beautiful about crocuses in the snow. Lovely pictures.
Juliana @ Urban Simplicity says
My 7 yo son asked me to teach him to knit a few weeks ago (he is very creative and into manual work) and I tried with big needles and bulky yarn, but he just.could.not.get.it. I had to hold the needles for him and he would put the yarn around. It was awkward and frustrating for both of us. I’m hoping we can try again in another year or so. Maybe his manual dexterity will catch up with his interest by then. In the meantime, he learned how to make a potholder on a small loom from Harrisville. 🙂
Clémence says
Snow here too to celebrate spring, in French countryside. Maybe it’s just to say a real goodbye to winter before spring? Anyway it’s getting me late for my spring plans, but my boys were so happy!
This picture of you and your son is so adorable! I showed it to my eldest (3), who said he wanted to learn to knit too : )
heather says
Ooooh dear! THat’s always how it happens, isnt it? But those one-off snow days can also be so fun…when you stop what you had planned and snuggle up with tea and knitting!