Maelstroms and a change in weather

While I was sipping chili cocoa with other knitters a white blanket dropped on the ground.

It's not cold anymore and the snow is already melting. Helsinki winters... Two days of low temperature, one day of snow.

I finished a pair of Maelstroms. I received the pattern and yarn from my Finnish Secret Pal in the autumn and the actual socks are traveling to my (hopefully) future mother-in-law.

There is a light at the end of the tunnel

And to New Yorkers, no, the light is not New Jersey.

I feel soooo much better after giving up the olympics! I've knit the phone cozy and am working on a dish cloth. Very simple, very therapeutic. No goals, no dead lines, nothing. Just me, the yarn and the beautiful ebony circulars.

My perfectly lovely Finnish Secret Pal sent her first package. I was, and still am, thrilled! Now I don't have to buy neither yarn nor beads for the Da Vinci Mystery Shawl KAL in october. Quite a sherlock, she is. And the color is very beautiful, rich and vivid.

Needless to say, but the chocolate was also very welcome :D