I just taught the Little girls how to knit, and they are working on their little projects every moment they can. Emma has determined that hers is a Mug Rug (the red) and Sophie determined that she is making a purse, with one side completed and the other side cast on and begun. And I had to make a quick… Read More »Knitting and Reading, Littles Style
My little girls (ages 6 and 7) have been watching me knit for years. They’ve asked to learn, and I tried to teach them, but they found it frustrating when their fingers didn’t do what they wanted. So we took a break from actual knitting and they spent some time learning the basics on a Knitting Mushroom (like this one)… Read More »Knitting with the Littles
Maddie asked me to make her a chunky scarf. Actually, I think she asked back in the spring, before the days warmed, and now that the days are cooling, she reminded me. So, finally when I was in town when the yarn shop was open (a rare occurrence it seems), I picked up some chunky yarn, figured out how to… Read More »Maddie’s Oversized Infinity Scarf
(Babcia. It’s Polish. It means Grandmom. There are other ways people spell it, and lots of ways people pronounce it. We say “bah’-chee”. I love hearing my oldest granddaughter call me that.) Over five years ago, when I was just a few months pregnant with Sophie, my 6th child, our oldest daughter and son-in-law announced that they were expecting their… Read More »on being Babcia
My needles have been getting jumbled. I knew I needed to do something other than the “rubber band them all together and hope for the best” method when I went to knit a swatch and found that I was using two size 10 needles and two size 9 needles. It just didn’t feel right, but I didn’t realize it until… Read More »Neater Knitting Needles
I have a gift certificate for the local yarn store (Thanks, Mom!) that is calling out for me to finally pick a pattern so I can purchase yarn and get started. And while summer isn’t necessarily known for knitting weather, I do need a project to occupy my hands and I do dream of a new sweater for me. So,… Read More »New Knitting Project Choices
Mama. Yes. Sophie? The moon is following me. It is? Why is the moon following you? Because it loves me. Why does the moon love you, Sophie? Because I’m pink. It happened that when I was finished knitting a shrug for Maddie, that Sophie asked for a sweater for herself. In pink, of course. It just so happened that I… Read More »The Moon Loves Pink
With all the nursing and holding and snuggling I’ve been doing lately, my hands have been itching to make something. I don’t do well at doing nothing, and while I don’t think that holding a sick little one is by any means ‘nothing’ it certainly isn’t ‘doing’. And doing makes me happy. So I dug out my yarn stash, found… Read More »Doing