Teaching the Beehives
So last week I finally got to teach my knitting class to the Beehives. For those of you that don’t know, the Beehives are the girls aged 12-13 in the LDS (or Mormon) Church. For more info go here.
It was so much fun! There were 10-12 girls there, plus their leader, Leslie, who also wanted to learn. I taught them how to make a slip knot, the provisional cast-on, and the knit stitch. Probably half got it right away. There were 2 girls that really amazed me. I won’t mention their names, but I will say that they are twins, and both are really neat.
The one girl taught herself to knit backwards, and actually had a 2 inch swatch in stockinette going. I was so dang impressed! I told her at the time to switch hands and keep going, in order to make garter stitch, right? Well she mis-understood and just knittted back the other way, instead! Her sister, meanwhile, did switch hands, and ended up with a 3 inch long by 3 inch wide swatch of almost perfect garter stitch. It was so awesome!
But the best thing of all was at Church that Sunday when several girls told me how much fun knitting was, and that they couldn’t stop doing it! My heart swelled, I tell you! I hope to teach them again, sometime soon, and maybe we’ll all make scarves together. Or maybe wristbands. Or scruchies! Oooh fun!
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