Posts Tagged ‘knitting with children’

This past weekend my husband went skiing with my son.  Last weekend I pulled a muscle skiing and figured I better take it easy until it’s all better.

Since the boys in our family like to ski off cliffs and the girls love the groomers, the girls opted to stay home with me.

“What would you like to do today?”  I asked.

“Can we watch Pride and Prejudice and knit?”

Oh my goodness!

I think I’ve died and gone to heaven.

After getting some exercise by going snowshoeing and the required a cup of hot chocolate after, we girls got out our knitting and turned on a cozy fire.

First the girls had a debate about which movie version to watch.

I was highly amused to sit back and listen to their musings.  “I like the big sister better in the new movie (the Keira Knightley version).”  “I like Mr. Darcy better in the long movie lots better…”

In the end we watched the longer BBC version of Pride and Prejudice .  My girls decided it was the better of the two movies…  and I couldn’t agree more.

Since I haven’t knitted in a long time, other than helping my girls to learn, I decided to start a project with yarn I had in my stash.

I’ve been wanting some of these for a while.  They are the perfect thing to keep my hands warm when I am at the sewing machine or on the computer.  I happened across the free pattern from Martha Stewart.

Most of my time was spent picking up dropped stitches and otherwise helping my girls with their scarves, so I didn’t get super far.  Plus, I’m really rusty.  But for all that, I can tell this is going to be a fast and easy project.  I forgot how much I love knitting.  It’s not often I make something for myself and I can’t wait to finish them.

It goes to show, it doesn’t take much to make a perfect weekend.

While I’m thinking about Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth Bennett, have you seen The King’s Speech?

I saw it last week and absolutely loved it.  It stars none other than Mr. Darcy (Colin Firth) as the lead character.  It was a surprise to realize that Elizabeth Bennett (Elizabeth Ehle) was also in the movie playing a minor role.  The scene when the two of them meet was enchanting.