May I present the first item knitted by my daughter!
It was about time, as she turned 4 this Monday 🙂
For a long time she was happy to knit with me holding and guiding her hands but lately she often picked my knitting up to continue on her own…… not really to my delight as sometimes I really struggled to get the needles back out of the gordian knot
She has also started to refuse my help when she actually knitted with my permission.
Anyway, my sister got her a knitting fork for her birthday and some very colourful thick yarn.
She started immediately, still in her pyamas, unable to eat her birthday breakfast…. and did not stop until the hairband/bow was finished.
As everyone admired her in nursery, she then made three for her teachers the next morning which were all very appreciated.
But today she informed me that she is done with knitting and that I can continue with the half finished hairband on her fork which she had already promised to make for an other teacher …
Anyway, I got the chance to take a few pictures when she was working and I think it is really a great tool to get started as it is even simpler than a knitting doll.
And as even the teacher were impressed by her skills and the knitting fork, we are invited to show them how to knit (me with two needles, her with the fork), once to only her group but then also during the Friday assembly.
I guess a good way to advertise my knitting classes :)They will all send their mummies to my classes.
Anyway, it made me think about my first steps as a knitter. I do not really remember who showed me first or when. I remember a skirt for a doll knitted in primary school. It grew bigger and bigger as I just couldn’t stop. And there was a vest for myself. My sister made a jumper for herself and I wanted to do the same but my mum suggested a sleeveless version as I was still only in primary school.
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Oh wow!!! What a great job she’s done! Way to go! Very cool
Yes, I agree.
But she confirmed today again, that she doesn’t want to knit any more. For now at least. She will pick it up later again when she is big 🙂
Absilutely! That’s what happened to me. 🙂 When I was a teenager, I couldn’t even imagine sitting down and knitting. It wasn’t “cool” enough with my friends. But when I graduated high school and started university, knitting came back into my life and I never stopped again. 🙂 So it’s ok that she wants to have a break.
Well, I hope she will take a break from her break tomorrow to show it to her nursery friends as one of the teachers have asked us to do so. And my daughter actually suggested that she shows them and I can show how I knit.
But yes, knitting as a teenager is an interesting thing. I also only picked it up later. But then it was still embarrassing and I did it rather in secret.