11.07.2005 | 20:10
No knitting, let's look at art instead
The scarf for the wedding looks the same today as it did yesterday... It really does. I realised I had made a mistake in the pattern and one stitch was missing... Well, actually one stitch was missing first from the left side and then the right side and maybe some place else, too. I knitted and ripped the 12 row repeat (of which every other row is purling) at least four times yesterday.
So, as the thermometer climbs up to new heights (aren't I good at using bad figures of speech - in fact the thermometer stays in place but the temperature rises) and all the Finns say "let's not complain, the winter will be long and cold and we should remember the warmth then", we decided to go see some exhibitions because that's a good thing to do when your brain has melted in the heat wave along with the cats.
We went to see old books to the National Library (air conditioning, yeah!) and there we saw for example the very first book written in Finnish. The oldest books... or excerpts were from 200 B.C.
Before that we saw the ITE exhibition of Finnish folk artists near the Helsinki railway station and Töölö bay.
This was funny: a platypus with a frog.
There is a moose (actually there were three of them, all different) behind the Finlandia House.
There were also bears of which here's one. I told Jussi that it would be fun to do something together: I'd knit and he'd sculpt bears of logs with a chain saw. Wouldn't that be sweet?
This is a portrait of the famous Finnish ski jumper Matti Nykänen (on his glory days, I assume):
