Chicks with Sticks
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My nearly teen aged granddaughter has asked me to teach her how to knit. So, Saturday she and her friend and I spent most of the morning together. First they came to my house and I got needles out for them and let them choose a practice ball of yarn from my stash.
Then we began to learn to cast on and from there to knit. There were sighs, giggles, and many exclamations of “Gramma! help!” followed by more giggles and sighs.
At 10 we went to the library where we joined the Gathering of Knitters for a bit over an hour. We did much giggling there as well as “frogging” (a term I had yet to hear - but it fits) good naturedly.
When we left the group I took the girls to a local sewing shop which also has yarns - we went, as far as they knew, to purchase ribbon for the baby bonnet (pics of it tomorrow). However, after we picked out the ribbon I told them to follow me.
I led my little parade (no, we didn’t have a permit for our parade, but we paraded anyway 
) to the back of the store and watched as their eyes grew bigger as they saw just how many yarn varieties there are. Then I let them each pick a skein of worsted to use once they felt comfortable with the practice yarn. Oh, the angst and decision making that went on - this color, no this color, no, that one . . .
It was lovely to watch. Thanks, girls, for asking me to work play with you.
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April 16th, 2007 at 11:50 am
The giggling and sighs continued at my house all through the rest of the weekend too. *chuckles* They had a lovely time, Nana! Thank you!
(And my girly ended up with about 2 inches of knitting done by this morning. She’s vedy proud! She says “We just won’t mention how many times I started over. Kay? Kay.”)
October 25th, 2007 at 3:10 am
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