I need to get to my garden and want to have a fire in the pit. However this is good knitting weather, so I should not complain right?
Currently I am working on some Meilenweit Cotton socks and yesterday at Borealis found some red cotton sock yarn, I have wanted some plain red cotton socks for awhile.
When I was reading Yarn Harlot today it reminded me that we all have special people
that have passed on and here is mine.
This is my mom
My mom was a knitter too and I remember the first socks she made me for skating. The air was blue as she was turning the heel and I don't think she enjoyed sock knitting. She told me once that the reason I knit socks was because they were small and went fast. She did knit some beautiful mittens though, I remember once when I was about 10, we had an oil burning stove in our house, that had doors that opened and when we came in from outside in the winter we would drape our wet mittens over the door to dry. My Mom had just made me some red and black Norwegian mittens with a boy and girl holding hands and one day I lost one. We looked all over for about a week and couldn't find the mitten. So she made me another one and then one night at supper my dad said what is burning and then we all smelled it coming from the oil burning stove and I went to look and there sitting inside stove was my mitten smoldering. I must have hung it to dry and it fell in...No more hanging mittens after that.
So here is the moral of the story don't hang your mittens on the stove door cause they might fall in.
1 comment:
I think it's great that you were introduced to your knitting through your mom. You'll always have that connection to her, even now.
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