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Never-ending winter

14/2/2014

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Washington snow, photo by Tim Ravenscroft for blogpost  by Moira Ravenscroft, Wyndlestraw Designs
There are very definite reasons why Florida seems a good place to be in February. I love New England – well I love "Old" England too come to mention it – but memories of shovelling huge quantities of snow on a very regular basis serve as a powerful reminder of what a true winter can be.
Moira Ravenscroft Knitting at Nokomis Beach, Photo by Tim Ravenscroft for blogpost, Wyndlestraw Designs
My husband Tim is currently in the Washington area and is digging himself out of a 40cm/16 ins snow accumulation with an added ice layer too, just to make life interesting. Fingers crossed he can get home from there later today. And yes, that rounded 'blob' in the photo at the top of this page is our car!

MInd you, it can get cold here too. Not the –20° C wind‐chill kind of cold, but chilly enough that a large knitting project is a definite bonus. In the photo above, I am sitting on the life‐guard steps at Nokomis beach just to the north of Venice, FL. It might actually look reasonably warm, but there was quite a cutting breeze, and a rapidly‐growing blanket was perfect to keep my knees warm.
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That's what I love about knitting. In the summer you can sit under a beach umbrella and finesse your latest sock, and in the winter you can create instant warmth just with the infusion of a number of skeins of wool. There's not many crafts quite as flexible and rewarding as that!

​I'll be back next time with more news about the blanket I was working on, the Ocean Currents Blanket. So until then,

Keep warm ‐ and keep knitting!

Moira
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    Moira Ravenscroft in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, USA

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    Moira knits & drinks tea as she travels around the USA, Sweden & the UK.


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