Greetings all,
My hand surgery is coming up & boy do my hands know it, a last hurrah of carpal tunnel agony before they get chopped up & fixed, yay!! So i haven't be playing along with Our Creative Space lately as the most creative thing i've been doing is pressing buttons on various kitchen appliances & baking!!
Last night i found my 3rd daughter, freshly bathed & pyjama'd, enjoying the balmy evening outdoors.
This girl comes from a long line of knitters: her twin sister is especially good, her mother not so great (i knit too tight, i crochet too lose) & her grandmother, possibly the Queen of knitting, who was taught by the best - her mother - who was a house maid (totally Downton Abbey style) in Northamptonshire England & her mother-in-law - who was a seamstress & made the finest dresses for high society in Sydney Australia.
I grew up in a family where the boys matched our father's fashionable outfits & we girls matched our mother's colourful ensembles!! It could be safari suits & mumus, or matchy matchy knitted jumpers, beautifully made, but surely we looked like a cult or Von Trapp family gone wrong. The worst part was truly the hair cuts!!
Back to this little lamb - her dream is to spin her own wool off our sheepy fleece when we have a farm. I can totally see her doing it too. Only she wants to knit straight off the lamb, so she has a foot rest for comfort & a lamb for company!!
Before i took these images i did spy on her first, she chatters away to herself & moves her mouth to the rhythmn of her knitting. I do that when i cut fabric!!
What a delightful evening in her own little world of craft.
I love that my children have been given the gift of handmade craft from my grandmothers down to my children. Even my brothers can ice cakes & sew, knit & paint - often better than their wives!! Generational craft, not only do you learn the skills but it's often the most memorable time you spend with family. Love Posie
