changing house guests

[kareina]

 In addition to being SCA, Hjalmar is also a member of a Karoliner reenactment group (late 1600’s, early 1700’s, during Sweden’s “stormakt” time). Therefore, last year he taught himself knitting to make appropriate socks to wear with his knee breeches. Keldor saw that, and suggested he make me a pair, in dark blue, to go with my brown linen knee trousers.

 

Much to my delight, when Sofi and Hjalmar arrived yesterday he took out his knitting, some beautiful dark blue wool socks, which were worked from the knee down, he had passed the heels, and was closing in towards the toes. So he tried them on me several times over the course of the evening last night and today, adjusting them to perfectly fit my feet. This evening he finished them, and I am in love with these beautiful, comfortable socks!

In other news, Keldor has finally started insetting the reindeer antlers we got from Torun this autumn into the moose antlers we have been using as a hatrack. Soon it will be a much better hat rack!




It just needs the epoxy and first layer of spackel covering the seam to harden so he can do the final smoothing over of the join.

Comments

[loup_noir]

Socks = love.

[fjorlief]

what splendid socks! and I really love the multi-antlered hat rack!!

[kareina]

Thanks! They are, by far, the best socks I have ever had, and I want to wear them always, and never wear them to keep from wearing them out. So I will compromise with wear them always when wearing something with which they will show.

[fjorlief]

They are indeed lovely, and totally understandable to want to compromise between wearing them all the time, and keeping them from wearing out. I have a few garments that I feel that way about myself, especially my tall waterproof leather boots, which fit perfectly and were only made for one year, and cannot be resoled or replaced