"Finnish Socks are Finished"

TaaaaDaaaa,  "The Finnish socks are Finished"

I finished these Lapland socks a few days ago.  They turned out beautiful.  So beautiful,  I would rather admire the socks than wear them!!!   Right now they are a work of art,  and besides it is great to have the pattern for future socks.  
These socks were challenging,  which I enjoyed.  I am trying to learn how to make socks while I have Sonja, my own tutor here.  So the next month will be sock creation month. 

Sonja's Homemade Fudge

Here is Sonja, our exchange student from Finland, with the  final product .   TA DA  (drum roll please) homemade fudge.  This is her first ever attempt at homemade fudge and it turned out fantastic.

We packaged and gave it away to friends and family.
Laura told me that I give away all the fudge, so we needed to make some more,  which we did at Grandma's during Christmas. 

This is a great picture of Sonja. don't you think? 

Minnesota Musing

We survived the biggest storm in 10 years. It went on for three days -- rain, snow, ice and a combination of those three. We were out of town for two days of the storm and thanks to some neighborhood elves, our driveway was cleared off. So we come home to 18 more inches of snow. What a different that makes!!!

We have an exchange student from Finland for the next couple of months. Sonja is a great person and settling into life at our house. Our two boys are home from college and Laura (sophomore in high school) , they all keep Sonja busy. But not too busy as Sonja is teaching me how to knit socks with a Lapland design.

The socks will be super cool when they are done. The design is complicated for me, sometimes one is working with 5 different colors of yarn. So keeping all that straight is a challenge -- especially when one is use to crocheting.

Knitting and crocheting are very different works of art -- which I am sure you can all agree.

More to come later.