This is one seriously frozen Chewbacca!
It’s been so cold that even Chewbacca freezes. Or is it the abominable snowman? I prefer Chewbacca, being a sci-fi fan and all 🙂
We’ve had temperatures below -30C for over two weeks now. These temperatures are not unusual here but when they continue for weeks on end, it starts to get on my nerves. We had a mini heatwave for two days of only -10C but today we are back to -33C. We have just over 50cm of snow now. I’m not sure but I think this is little less what we normally have at this time of winter. So there’s something positive.
Last weekend, Sodankylä, which is the municipality where we live, broke the cold record in Finland this winter, -38.7C. It was also the coldest place in the whole of Europe, if you don’t count Russia.
It is, however, business as usual here. I’ve never, ever, heard of any school ever being closed because of snow or low temperature. Buses or trains might be little delayed if tons of snow comes all at once but other than that, people just keep adding more clothes and start to look more and more like Michelin Men.
The mittens above are not a recent knit. I knitted them about 10 years ago. I use them a lot. I realised that they were really warm while ploughing snow, when combined with another pair of mittens or gloves underneath. Fingers freeze really easily while ploughing snow because of the metal bar you hold on to. I also put the blue furry mittens in the rucksack when going on winter hikes. I like to put them on while on a break and my fingers are frozen from messing with the flask or after taking some pictures. I think it must be those fluffy hairs that make them warm, even though they are only 45% wool and the rest acrylic and polyamide.
I hope you are all keeping warm, wherever you are.
Happy knitting!
I love the color! They make me think of a muppet. 🤗
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Funnily enough, before I realised that the mittens looked like a frozen wookiee, I used to call them my muppet gloves.
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I agree with Alissa about the mittens looking like a muppet! I remember a handful of times when school was cancelled mainly due to a terrific (2 feet or more) snow fall but never from cold. Now school is cancelled if the forecast indicates snow. Such babies!
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Maybe I should sew some crazy eyes to the mittens to complete the muppet look. Yes, things have certainly changed. Here they still don’t close schools but the media is making a snowfall sound like the end of the world is coming.
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That’s so funny I thought of the muppets too…is it Cookie Monster that’s blue? England has had some snow so it’s made the UK National news most days as the lead story…suppose it gives some relief from them talking about Brexit. My post tomorrow morning will have some snowy pictures taken today, but only -5°C here. Stay warm, and hold a cookie in those mittens 😁
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Ha, yes Cookie Monster! At least something good comes out of the wintry weather if it pauses the Brexit news even just a short moment.
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