I sit here a lot these days and think about the fact that so much is happening around me these days. My youngest child started in daycare (Dagpleje for the Danes reading this), my daughter has her first day of school next Tuesday and I start back to work next Wednesday after a long maternity leave. I will be an hour drive away from the two of them while they go through the first trials of these new phases and their overbearing mother won’t be around to be on high alert to try to prevent the unpreventable and highly unlikely. I crack jokes about it, but it’s tough. Sigh…
If you don’t know me, then I can easily tell you that I am a type A personality and knitting has with time become a release for me – a way to assert control in an uncontrollable world if you will. Someone you love get sick? Knit them a scarf to make them feel better! In this case, since my son is going to be out of my sight, it is now my duty to knit things that he will most likely need. It would of course me much, much easier and probably also cheaper to just go buy things instead of knitting it, but going for that cheap fix means my brain is not preoccupied for that short time and I somehow begin to feel like I should be doing more myself. What’s an overprotective, neurotic, hyper-vigilant mother to do? Knit slippers.
This is my take on Saartje’s Bootees I like to call Daycare Slippers (Ravelry Link)
The origional pattern and on the blog and on Ravelry call for Rowan RYC Cashcotton, but since I do live in a colder climate and the daycare like most Danish homes features tiled and hardwood floors, I really wanted to go for something a bit warmer so I used Gepart Garn Retro (unfortunately now discontinued). I found some red buttons I had bought years before and slapped those on, which reminds me of a charming and unplanned French Sailor look.
So now the real question is: did this do enough to satisfy my need to knit to assert control in this time of flux? Doubtful, but we will find out as next week approaches.
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