Just back from Switzerland

Returned two days ago from Basel, Switzerland where we visited my husband's sister and her family. We had warmth and sun every day... it was beautiful. Took the kids to EuropaPark one day, visited the Tinguely Museum and the Kunstmuseum. Took beautiful walks along the Rhine and ran in the hills by their house in the village of Gelterkinden. Also took a gondola up one of the local ski hills and scootered down. Super fun, but what is it about that jarring of your arms that makes them so itchy? It was nuts.

Visited a number of yarn stores while there. Some in Germany but one in their village of Gelterkinden. Bought a few things... mostly for gifts. Wish I didn't have so much sock yarn at home waiting to be knitted because there is so much cool stuff out there, and what's nice about these shops is that they seemed to always include sample socks in each of the yarns. So helpful to see how it will knit up.

My sister-in-law has been trying to knit for a couple of summers now... gets into it while we are together (and with her mother who knits), but then we all leave and she never finishes her projects. My kids made her children monsters (see the pictures of their monsters). She decided that if the girls could knit a monster, so could she. Just before we left for the train to go to the airport, she finished her monster... the first project she ever finished. Not sure I remember the first project I ever completed, but I'm sure it was a scarf, but I'm sure the feeling was the same... great!

I have way too many projects going at the moment. You can see the socks that I knitted for a friend's birthday. I have to admit that it's the first pair of socks that I ever knitted. I've done one, but never the second. Finally got smart and knitted two at once. They are nothing special, but at least there are two. Had my daughter model them as my feet are much too big.

Off to try and finish some things. Wish me luck!