Gretchen Ronnevik

Yarn Along

knitting

I’d like to thank Ginny at Small Things once again for hosting the Yarn Along.  I’ve really enjoyed meeting so many new people who love to read and knit each week!  If you’d like to “meet” some as well, head on over (when you’re done here of course) to her blog.

This week I’ve picked up once again a project that was nearly forgotten.  It’s a sweater for me.  Imagine that. If I remember right, I abandoned it before because I got to the point of dividing for the armholes and I realized it was actually too short for me.  Since I’m so short, I wasn’t expecting that, but I had to undo a lot of work if I wanted it to look nice, and at the time, I didn’t feel like undoing a lot of work.  So it got stashed in my unfinished pile.  Now it’s out, and I’ve fixed the problem and am currently working on lengthening it.  I may even make this little cropped sweater go to my waist.  I don’t know yet.  We’ll see.
For reading, I put one of our homeschool books in.  Silje just started studying Greek Myths and let me tell you, she’s so so so in love with them.  I wasn’t sure how she’d react to them, but she won’t put this book down, and even rereads sections over and over again.  As a literature major, I’m excited that she’ll have this base for studying classical literature in the future.  (I’m of the belief that knowing both the Bible and Greek Mythology are both essential for studying higher literature.  Why schools these days have cut  these two out, I’ll never figure out.)
So far her favorite story is Pandora’s Box.  There’s one other that she loves, but I can’t think of the name just now.   

The other book that I put in the picture is one sent to us this week all the way from Norway!  One of my dear friends, Lise, who lives there thought that if Silje is studying geography, she should have an excellent book on the most beautiful city in Norway.  Silje hasn’t put that down either and even brought it to town yesterday so she could look at the pictures in the car.

That wasn’t the only thing in the package from Lise.  She sent the most gorgeous little dress for Solveig.

How can I not show a picture of it?  She also sent a Norwegian chocolate bar.  That however…

did not make it to this post.

Comments

  1. OH we have that Greek Myths book!! But I was a little disturbed at some of the stories! Posed for some interesting conversations with the kids! Love the color of your yarn!

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  2. What’s disturbing is that you didn’t share the chocolate bar with me! 🙂
    Beautiful dress and can hardly wait to see the finished sweater!

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  3. Hi Gretchen,

    Thanks for checking out my homeschool blog. I don’t know if you remember or not, but we actually met one time at someone’s wedding because my husband Nate went to high school with your husband in Fergus.

    I hope homeschooling is going well for you guys. Blogs sure make it nice and easy to keep up with everyone, so I look forward to reading more of your blog.

    Take care!
    Kristin
    (your 2nd cousin)

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  4. We have the same Greek Myths book and we’ve read it many times over. You’re brave to get back to your sweater, I’ve got one on the needles that I don’t even want to look at!!

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  5. Thank you for visiting my blog. I’ll bookmark yours, and will definetely come back. We have many things in common so I liked checking out your blog 🙂 (I guess you can’t tell from my blog, but I used to sew cloth diapers for my daughter, but she stopped using diapers last winter so since then I haven’t made any.) Your names sounds so Scandinavian + German, where do you come from?

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  6. good luck with the sweater! – I’m making g one for myself – but I’ve stopped following my pattern long time ago and now I just knit however I want…:P I’m sure the result will be…interesting…

    it’s gorgeous color! love it!

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  7. Such a lovely rich shade for a sweater! I’ve cropped super short before (sewing though, not knit) but I wear a lot of sundresses down here in Key West and I think they look nice that way.

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  9. We have that Greek Myths book to and my children just love reading it to 🙂 I LOVE the stitch pattern on your sweater and the color is so pretty!! Thanks so much for popping over to my blog and commenting on my socks to. Have a wonderful weekend 🙂

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  10. I’m glad to hear that see liked the book! Hopefully one day she’ll get to visit Bergen! Wouldnt that be cool?!
    I also find Greek Mythology very interesting! She should also visit Greece one day (Bergen first though 😉 ), there’s many interesting things there!
    -Lise

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