Knitting

Banana asked me this morning why I was knitting.  Jellybean was still sleeping and the younger two were quietly playing.  Well the little man was crawling around and Banana was trying to sit with me in the glider.  "Mommy likes to knit" was my response to her.  They like to ask me what I'm knitting and who it is for.  I will always tell them what it is and unless its a grandparent gift who its for as well. 



I'm not one who zones out in front of the TV.  That is one reason that we don't have cable or satellite, its just not worth it.  I either have my knitting with me or a book.  I learned to knit as a child mostly because my Mom was teaching my older sisters, I still have the scarf that I started; its never been finished.  I started to make some mittens for kids that belonged to a friend as well as a sister's boyfriend at the time.  Those mittens eventually did get finished but were passed along to others.  My oldest nephew got the first pair that I finally put together and then my younger nephew had to have his own pair as he kept stealing his brothers.  They were dragon mitts that work very well as puppets and are now known as "Grrr" mitts.  I think my niece has the third pair and I had to make another for my oldest nephew which are now ripped to shreds. 

When I found out I was pregnant the first time, I wanted to make something for the babe.  I found a pattern in a book that I was reading and cast on.  Knits and purls, very simple.  I finished it before the Jellybean was born as well.  Since then I have made that blanket 7 times, three within that first year.  Then came hats and socks.  Hats are still my favorite thing to make.  Hubby gets a new one every year as he loses them frequently and that bald head of his must stay warm.  The funny thing is that his favorite is one that I made three years ago that he decided to wash and then put it in the dryer. It was wool, silly man.  Its now the size of a yarmulke and he wears it under his other hats.


Its the simple movement of each stitch that I enjoy.  Its not the finished product.  I have so many things that just need ends sewn in, seams done and they just sit around.  I like the planning of it, choosing the pattern, the yarn.  I guess that is one reason I choose to do smaller projects a lot.  I can get them done and them onto starting and planning another.