I finished knitting this pair of socks not long before Christmas and put them in with my Mum's gift; something to wear on cold winter evenings.
As anticipated, I had a crazy week and consequently had very little down time- and when I did, I was too tired to concentrate on much. So, since I have no review completely done, I thought I'd show a few more Christmas presents I gave... I finished knitting this pair of socks not long before Christmas and put them in with my Mum's gift; something to wear on cold winter evenings. All of my siblings and I exchange names for Christmas, as I've mentioned before, and bring our gifts to give at our big family New Years' get together. This is fortunate, because I wasn't finished this wall hanging for my the sister and her family whose name I got, until a couple of days before the first of January. I had earlier finished sewing pillowcases for all of their kids (they have nine)- here's the pile, ready for wrapping. They're enthusiastic boardgame players, so I got them this as well: I got this movie as part of my Dad's gift; not a western, which is his favourite genre, but close enough: a film set during the Revolutionary War, which has a big shoot-up as a finale. Drums Along The Mohawk (1939) is based on the 1936 novel of the same name and stars Henry Fonda as Gilbert Martin, an American settler who marries Lana, the daughter of a wealthy man, and takes her to live on his remote farm in upstate New York. Life is hard though with the help of their neighbours they are beginning to prosper, but revolution is coming and they will all be swept up in it. I actually saw this film a few months ago, and was pleasantly surprised by it. It's a John Ford picture so I assumed that it would be well done, but Henry Fonda has never been one of my favourite actors and I was frankly sceptical about the ability of Claudette Colbert to creditably pull off the part as a frontier wife. But she's actually not half bad in the role, though they really should have laid off the makeup and plucked eyebrows. The movie itself is pretty good, and gets extra points for having Edna May Oliver in it, doing what she does best: being a feisty, crotchety old woman with a heart of gold.
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