Crafty Pleasures

   Knitting is one of the many skills I learned from my grandmothers, but not one that took.  The cooking, sewing, gardening, those are a few of the skills that did take  Having created the required number of wonky misshapen dish clothes both my grandmothers decided that knitting was not for me.  So with that off my list we went to work on other talents.

   Now some thirty years later I'm working at a nationally known fabrics and crafts store and once again I find myself wanting to knit.  It all started when my best friend sent me a gorgeous  red and black, soft and furry, long neck scarf she had made me for Christmas.   I had always been the crafty one and she was the example of the modern business woman.  If you could combine the two of us you would create the woman that could do anything.  Leslie is a phenom, and knitting was a skill that I didn't know she possessed.
  Armed with yarn, needles and a how to book, after Christmas I took the time to learn to knit.  I knit a scarf and then another, and another, and another.  Pretty soon my friends and family were commenting that they had already received a lovely scarf from me, what was I going to knit next?  Next? I had no idea what to knit next, so I set my needles aside and went back to an old familiar friend, my sewing machine.

  Meeting an avid knitter at a new job inspired me to pick up the needles again.  Being the jump-into-the-deep-end sort of person I got some sock yarn and planned  to start knitting socks.  My co-worker told me that socks would drive me crazy, she suggested that I start on a child's sweater for one of my granddaughters.  I made the sweater and then another, I started on the socks (one down, one to go), made some adult sweaters. And now instead of thinking what's next and putting my needles away I'm branching out.  My latest project  is just one of the many Christmas gifts for my family and friends.